Will using tabs with JavaScript (jQuery) hurt my SEO because of crawlability?

I have a page with tabs like this: http://www.problemio.com/problems/problem.php?problem_id=180 See how there are 3 tabs? Only the content from one of them shows up when the user lands on the page, and the content from the other two shows up only when the user clicks on the tabs. And the change happens using jQuery and JavaScript. But all the text is loaded when the page loads. What I am wondering is whether this will hurt my SEO and make it harder for Google to index the complete pages?


What's the pro/cons of Adobe TypeKit API? Any best practices?

With all the Open Source fonts I have available, and I can download them via the CSS font directive, what's the benefit of the TypeKit API? Are there drawbacks of this? How does it work technically? Are there certain ways of constructing my website I should avoid?


Webmaster Tools show the "Total Indexed" number to be zero

I recently switched my domain from yannbane.blogspot.com to www.yannbane.com, and added my new domain to my Webmaster Tools account. After a few days, I went there and checked the data, and I was a bit worried when I saw this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rt1Gs.jpg) How can I interpret this? Is Google really not indexing my site at all? I'm afraid that's the case, because when I google for it, only my old blogspot domain shows up!


Apache httpd Problem

I am getting intermittent issues with my site. Pages often hang with huge loading times and sometimes fail to load. The httpd error logs contain the following:               [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5871 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5871 for (*)     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5872 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5872 for (*)     [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5954 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized      The server is currently running with 800mb free memory, so it is not caused by lack of RAM. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Chris. **EDIT** The current number of httpd procceses is 11. This does increase as the error persists and can rise up to 25+. I am running Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS).


Joomla menu item will not work

I'm trying to setup a new joomla site (first one for me, it's very confusing). I have added a menu item, but the link that it is trying to go to is the "alias", and that isn't resolving correctly (or at all really) to the "link" that I have for the menu item. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?


How do I renew an expired domain with Google Apps?

I let my domain expire on Google Apps. It now says that I have to contact customer service in order to renew. Does anyone know how to renew a domain (still under the grace period) for Google Apps.


How to properly use Rich Snippets for Structured Data using itemscope, itemtype, and itemprop?

I have a website which lists business information in coherence with member information. So I am needing to use the Nested Items method. **Each "Business" listing has this setup:**   1. Business Name   2. Business Address   3. Business Location (city, state)   4. Business Hours of Operation   5. Business Contact Person (member name)   6. Business Phone #   7. Business Cell Phone #   8. Business Website   9. Business Description   10. Other people (member names) who also work for this company (business name). **Each "Member" listing has this setup:**   1. Member Name   2. Business Name   3. Member Location (city, state)   4. Member Phone #   5. Member Cellphone #   6. Member E-mail Address   7. Member Website   8. Member Description   9. Other companies (business names) this person (member name) does business with. I have attempted to apply the itemscope, itemtype and itemprop attributes to my mark-up myself.

Member Name

Business:
	                         Business Name

Location:
	                         Minneapolis, MN

             <meta itemprop="name" content="Business Name" />

Phone:
	                         123-456-7890

Cell:
	                         012-345-6789

E-mail:
	                         business@email.com

Website:
	                         www.business-website.com

Description:

Description of the business would be placed in this area.

Members:

Member Name1, Member Name2

           I feel like it is incorrect, and I would like an explanation of what I'm doing wrong, and how to do it correctly. I have business information and member information mixed in with both types of listings. **Some of the warnings google is giving:**   * Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ.   * Warning: If this markup is about a person, at least 2 of the following fields are needed: organization, location, or role. See the people help page for more information.


Usage of meta tag "generator"

Is the meta tag "generator" still relevant in today's web? Has it every had any use?               <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)" />


Can't view the website on the LAN stored on XAMPP server

I'm trying to access website located on XAMPP server on my other computer located on the same LAN network. I am able to see welcome screen of XAMPP server, i.e., `192.168.0.22/xampp/` but when I am pointing to my website, i.e., `192.168.0.22/xampp/website/` it says: > OBJECT NOT FOUND! The requested URL was not found on this server. ERROR 404. However I am able to view the website on localhost. Any ideas what's wrong?


Web Host / Service to Fetch Batch of URLs

I have a list of about one million URLs that I would like fetched and would rather not run this process on my own web server. I am wondering if there are any commercial solutions to this - i.e. any services that will take my list of URLs and return the HTML for each (running it behind proxies, etc., if necessary).


For SEO, should the path portion of the URL be localized?

I have a site that have localized content. I would like to know if it's really important to also translate the URL paths to access the content. For example: Today, I'm handling the URLS like these:               www.example.com/de/airports     www.example.com/pt/airports      My question if is it really good and worthwhile to change my site to handle URLs like these:               www.example.com/de/airports     www.example.com/pt/aeroportos      This last way it's more work to do. I was looking for Google papers talking about this subject but I did not find, anyone knows if this is important or it's ignored by search engines?


Google Webmasters Tools: Denied by robots.txt

I have a website: http://46.105.30.3/ And I'm trying to get testing it using the Fetch as Googlebot option in the Google Webmasters Tools. When I try it it returns `Denied by robots.txt`. My robots.txt contains:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /js/     Disallow: /style/      Any ideas why the Googlebot is denied access?


About the semantically related words Google's algorithm uses in mixed language websites

Because I'm Latin, sometimes I use a word in English while talking in Spanish. In a website, for example, I could be interested in ranking for a word as “promoter” inside a page in Spanish, because that is how my public understands that concept. Does the latent semantic indexing (LSI) (or whatever Google uses for semantic relation) fail to relate “promoter” with the content (because there are not related words in English) and then could that prevent my site from ranking?


How would Spanish text at bottom of English content page change how our pages rank?

On our real estate site we are planning to put Spanish text (2-3 lines) at bottom of every page. Except for the bottom part, all the content is in English. I am new to Page Rank & Google search optimization. So i have few queries related to that:   * How this Spanish content will affect rankings?   * Will it help to search through Spanish words? I mean, if user searches using Spanish words will our pages come in search results?


SEO semi-mirrored sites that don't anger google

I'm working with a client who manages real-estate agents. All of these agents have their own individual sites, and they all want the same layout and functionality. So, I have a "master" site designed which is dynamically changed to fit the agent/area/whatever through a MySQL database. We have relatively static content in the DB about the agent and the area, then the rest is very dynamic content from a listing service, which is updated daily. My question is how to set this up so that we can keep on using all the different domains and identical programming (i.e. all the files are identical, except pictures) and have decent SEO as well. They had some trouble in the past with Google blacklisting their sites because they were considered "mirrored sites". Which...they pretty much are, but the difference between mirrored sites is that we're searching very different areas of the listings DB. Ideally, all the listings are relatively unique to each site, but sometimes there aren't any listings for the area, or the listings for two sites overlap...that's when they get busted for the mirrorring. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to both have decent SEO for the individual sites, and keep it easy to manage? There are currently over 100 sites (20 agents, about 5 sites each--one agent site, and a few "area" sites), so not mirroring things is just a ton of work.


How to increase the number of indexed images from submitted image sitemap?

I had added images in my sitemap a week ago, but the number of images indexed in the Google Webmaster Tools has not displayed any tendency to increase. The number of images submitted is about 200,000 but the number of images indexed keeps floating around 10,000. I hosted my images on AWS S3, and I used different URL `.s3.amazonaws.com` instead of my domain, but I provide a `robots.txt` file in the root directory of the bucket (per this instruction). In the sitemap XML the images are grouped in each content page `<loc>`, but the images filenames doesn't give any relevant information about the content of the page. They are just a bunch of random numbers. Is there any way I can do to increase the number of indexed images in the Google Webmaster Tools?


Duplicate content for geographic listings?

Our company provides listings (in the manner of a directory) for companies by geographic location (country, state, city, etc.). It's a great user experience to be able to click on each link below to see all companies registered in for example United States, Texas and Dallas:               www.example.com/United-States     www.example.com/United-States/Texas     www.example.com/United-States/Texas/Dallas      What do Google think about this? Will I get punished for duplicate content, since all companies in for example Dallas also will show for the state of Texas and for country United States? I know I could add canonical links, but I would prefer if all 3 examples above (and all my other countries, states, cities) were listed on Google. Maybe that's a risk? Maybe there is another solution? Maybe I also should mention that each list above shows company name and a short company description and when you click on the company you will find the full details.


Using the HTML input "name" attribute and SEO

From an SEO point-of-view, which version is better: `<input type="text" name="q" value="search" />` or `<input type="text" name="query" value="search" />` Here's another example: `<input type="text" name="e" value="email" />` or `<input type="text" name="email" value="email" />` In other words: Does Google use the HTML input `name` attribute?


GitHub Pages doesn't show Octopress

I have a public GitHub repository for my new Octopress Blog. I just wanted to test some things, so i created a GitHub Page, and linked my Domain to it. So the domain is now linked to my GitHub Page. It works fine, and i'm getting the 404 GitHub Error page. After that, i installed Octopress and pushed it to the Repository. But then... after more than 30 Minutes of waiting... nothing happens. Still the 404 error. I followed this Tutorial and finished it without any errors. Is it normal to wait so long for GitHub the first time? Or did i miss something?


How do I stop Google indexing my main page as https

Due to historic reasons, we have things set up so that `"www.mydomain.com"` redirects to `"store.mydomain.com".` This has worked perfectly fine until recently, when Google appears to be sending visitors to `"https:// www.mydomain.com"` which doesn't have an SSL- certificate (and never has). Strangely, its only the first link that goes to `"https:// www.mydomain.com"`, all other links point correctly to `"http:// store.mydomain.com".` Because there is no certificate on the **"www"** version, users are getting an error message. How do I make Google revert to pointing the main link at `"http:// store.mydomain.com"` (or even `"http:// www.mydomain.com."`) If I remove `"https:// www.mydomain.com"` from Google webmaster tools, will this also remove the redirected page (`"http:// store.mydomain.com`)? Thanks.


search with mobile : does Google just look in the mobile-optimized websites?

When someone searches a keyword by mobile, does Google search in desktop version of all websites and find the proper result and **_then_** prioritize them according to the responsiveness or mobile-optimizing stuff etc **_OR_** it just search in the mobile version of the mobile-optimized websites ? I want to create a website with a responsive design, I was wondering that if I should care about SEO in mobile version of the website, or just try to optimize the desktop version for search engines and just care about the design of the mobile version ?


How to use Python as a server language from a PHP perspective

I only know server side programming with PHP. To me, I write something into `index.php` and call `http://localhost/index.php` and see the results of the PHP script. I have been using CakePHP and understand that there is something you can do with URL rewriting, but in my mind, there is this one to one relation between URLs and PHP files on the server. Now I do a lot with Python, but just command line utilites. I'd like to use Python instead of PHP for my next project. So far, I was told about `mod_python`, that I have to use a framework like Pylons or Twisted or even Django to get any output at all. Others have said that I just have to `print()` a HTTP header and then the script would output like I am used with PHP. I would like to write something that basically only takes a directory listing and makes it pretty, so that I can access a bunch of PDF files from a mobile browser. I know how to do this with PHP, I know how to create a Python script that would generate the HTML. I just do not know how to execute that script when I open `http://localhost/pdfcentral/`. How would I have to configure my server? It runs on Ubuntu 10.04.


How to build a small personal-like community?

The target is to create a community where mostly people will have their own "vault". Like an enhanced diary system. Public areas will exist for some common operations, but mostly a user will get into this system because he wants to operate on its data and add/modify them. The "data" may be posts (blog? forum?) or it may be events that need to be tracked privately ... I want to start on this thought and see where i can get it? I have thought of the "obvious", that is to combine a CMS wit a forum (like Joomla with phpBB). Is there a product out there (preferably free) that does my job? Is it better to start building one of my own? _Update: Thank you all for the answers, i went with phpBB as a forum for a start and Joomla for the wrapping around the forum. RokBridge will serve as a user bridge between them in the future when i will need it. for now joomla has no users._


Should I set the title attribute for content DIV's to explain what they contain?

I have a number of DIV's that break up a page into logical elements for styles and positioning, etc. As part of optimizing my site for search engine spiders, should I include a title attribute within these DIV's? (Yes I have a title as part of the whole page, I'm curious on individual structual elements) Ex               ...     <div id="SearchOptions" title="Search filters and options - Type in a name or pick a business and Click 'Search' to get started" >       ....     </div>     ...


How to host a simple website using a domain name I own

I'm familiar with hosting webapps when I'm doing "the whole shebang" of installing / configuring / setting up Apache/Tomcat/PostreSQL / "coding" the website myself using HTML / JSP / CSS etc. on dedicated servers I'm renting. But in the above case, I'm "owning" the entire stack: from the Debian GNU/Linux dedicated servers to every single file that is served. Now I'd like to do something **much** simpler and I must admit I don't know what's involved at all. I'd like to host a simple website made of only a few static pages (no database, no nothing) and I'd like it to be accessible from "example.com". What needs to be technically done to have such a thing? How is the DNS supposed to be set up? Note that I do _not_ want to host this on one of my dedicated servers.


how to deal with URLs containing lot of spammy keywords?

I'm writing a big index of documents and I'm dealing with URLs as example I will use the car industry: somesite.com/manifacturer-mazda_model-miata_engine-1600cc_gas_color-red_hard- top-spider_[[A LOT MORE]].htm this url points to a generated content that can't be identified as a single resource (in practice, every keyword is a filter and the page result is generated by a database search) at Google's eyes an URL like this looks spammy or I can use this solution with freedom? using querystring instead of URL rewriting can fix risks? and, in this case, keywords will be considered as keyword for SERPs? thank you in advance, feel free to correct my English!


an Open Source graphic software like fireworks

Hi All and happy new year i'm wondering if there's any open source and free software to create designs, the way fireworks does, by allowing creation of slices (decoupes, HTML and images) thank you very much


Is link building still a factor for getting rank in Google?

Is link building still a major factor for good ranking in SERP’s of Google?


Index page content identical to page 1 of a gallery-type website

I have a gallery type website, e.g. a site that lists blog posts or pictures in a paginated manner. However, I have 2 pages that have identical content:   1. example.com/index.html   2. example.com/page/1 Page 2, 3 and so on have different content naturally. However, for SEO purposes, what is the best way of telling Google that page 1 is identical to index.html? Should I 302 redirect `index.html` to `/page/1` so `index.html` is non- existent, so to say or should I put a `canonical` tag in `/page/1` (but not on `/page/2`) that points to `index.html`?


Point domain to Amazon EC2 Server

I just got a domain from a rather suspicious registrar and I want to point that domain to an EC2 instance from Amazon AWS. I already have an elastic IP ready and just need to point the domain to it. However my registrar asks me for my nameservers, (ns1.somedomain.com, etc), which I don't have, since Amazon is not your typical webhost. I've read on the amazon forums that you only need to create an A record, which I did, but my registrar forces me to put some values in the ns1 and ns2 fields, so am I doing something wrong? I'm not very familiar with DNS.


Microdata vs. Microformats

Just like the title says: it seems to me that microdata has a few advantages over microformats, with the only drawback being a bit more verbose. Is this all the story? It seems that Google supports both equally; is there anything else which I should consider?


Dynamic Content Editor

I've asked this question around the net and still haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. Basically I have several sites that I run through a custom PHP framework. I'd like to add a way for users to content management but all I really want is a simple interface that lets users click and edit (similar to Concrete5). All they really need is.. well, pretty much what I'm writing this with. A way to format text. All of the links/framework, that sort of thing are taken care of by me or automated through scripting. Is there a good foundation to build on? It seems a little unnecessary to re- build everything into a CMS like Wordpress or Concrete. I know exactly what's in my programming, I'd rather use it. I just want an easy way for clients to edit content.


Is the hybrid solution the best one for developing a web app?

I need to build a web app that has to be "universal". By universal I mean that I need it to be available online and offline, and usable on mobile platform and pc's and mac. I need to store and retrieve the info and I want the app to be updated when its online. Since I need to port the info to a SQL database I thought about building an CMS that would build the app for each client using the SQL database. That app would run with a Nosql Db in the background that would return the data to the master (couchdb) and then I would take that info and parse it to store it in the SQL Database ... I thought using the couchdb engine would be the best solution because I need the data to be available online and offline. The question now ...   * First is it a good idea?    * Any other suggestions I could build on?(can be anything)   * Is the hybrid solution a good idea?   * What offline storage easily replicable I could use for a web app ( easy to install at the client facilities?)


Using <strong> for introductory paragraph to a post - a bad idea?

I have a news website and on most posts the first paragraph is in bold. Currently the authors are just using `<strong>` to bold the paragraph, would it be better from an SEO point of view to rather use a paragraph class that is styled with `p.bold {font-weight:bold;}` `<p class="bold">`. Does `<strong>` on the first paragraph send the wrong message to search engines? The text is important but the main reason it is in bold is because it is the opening paragraph. I realise `<strong>` is used to emphasise certain words on a page


Can you recommend ways to manage code deployment to a Linux based web server?

I've always used a very simple bash script to deploy code. I'm moving away from using subversion to Mercurial but I don't really think the revision control software matters for deployment. What are some betters ways to do this?               #!/bin/sh     date=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`     tar -zcvf app-dir-$date.tar.gz app/dir      tar -zcvf app-templates-$date.tar.gz app/templates     tar -zcvf app-media-$date.tar.gz app/media     svn export http://example.com/somepath/trunk hh/ --force


Why Alexa has two rankings for my website?

I have a website that has two different Alexa rankings as follows: 1) The public ranking on Alexa siteinfo page of the website, that is the usual ranking page and it indicates a rank of **318,254** which they claim it is updated daily. 2) Another public and daily ranking of the same website but it is viewable using either the freely available list for **Top 1,000,000 Sites** in this page at the almost top right **or** using StatsCrop website and this ranking indicates a rank of **253,753**. Which one is more accurate? Why different daily rankings?


Is Smush it a reliabe service?

Smush it is an online compression tool for images provided by Yahoo. However, despite being maintained by a big company, it is often very slow and even offline. In their FAQ there is a question about API: > **Is there a Smush.it API I can access so that my images are automatically > smushed when they are published?** > > The API currently is not available for public use. We are working towards > making this publicly accessible. If I recall correctly, this is the same answer I read about 2 years ago and no API has been released since then. My question is: Is a good idea to rely on this service to compress images on fly? **Edit** - You guys must be trippin or something. Smush it is simple tool provided by Yahoo that can be used by **webmasters** to compress images on their sites. If a question about this does not fit on **Pro Webmasters** , where else would it fit? `</rant>`


Find all <forms> used on a site

Is there e.g. a crawler that can find (and list the form action etc.) all pages that have forms in my site?


Url is different

I have a website name somyatrans.com. when i searched in google with the site: operator it shows different url. For example:- I have searched in google like this site:somyatrans.com I found this url **www.somyatrans.com/? &mobondhandle=system** which is not in this website. After that i have search my website with this site search operator appending my home page keywords for example 1:- **site:somyatrans.com certified language translation** search result was this **www.somyatrans.com/?ref=driverlayer.com** I am surprised with this result, the result i was expecting   www.somyatrans.com Unfortunately it is showing **www.somyatrans.com/?ref=driverlayer.com** I can not understand is there any problem or not. There is another website has some different issue related to the domain name search using site operator and keywords ranking problem. for example:- **site:goforvisa.com** does not show my domain name in top as my website name is **goforvisa.com** Google search result shows different result in top instead of my domain name. **Result : #1- blog.goforvisa.com Result : #2- goforvisa.com** Is there any one who can help me why google shows like that my website result instead of my home page. Please some one help me out with this issue and let me know how can i solve this issue. Thanks in advance for your kind help or answer.


Multilingual sites and Google search results, using sub-folders for language

About three months ago we added an English version of our, previously Japanese only, site under the subfolder /en/ we've tried to follow the sometimes incomplete best practices laid out by Google by adding alternate tags to all pages that are currently translated. The top page for instance has the following meta tags for language.               <link rel="canonical" href="/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="/en/">      While the English main page under /en/ has               <link rel="canonical" href="/en/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="/en/">      Alternate languages are setup in the sitemap. (as per Google's recommendations) It seems however that Google absolutely refuses to show the English top page in results when the user is using English at google.com if you search you'll, as of this post, get the Japanese description and a title that Google has apparently invented instead of the title and description in the meta-tags for the /en/ index page. Does anyone have any experience with subfolders actually working to affect search results? What are the best practices for ensuring that the correct language version of my website is displayed through Google and other search engines? And how long will it take before the new language version becomes prominent in search engine results? NOTE: per GDav's suggestion I've removed the following tags for now as a test.               <link rel="canonical" href="/">     <link rel="canonical" href="/en/">


404 page needs meta description (just to make Google happier)?

I'm fixing some minor things on the 404 page for all my websites. My punctiliousness makes me unable to sleep well unless I get an answer to this question. :) **Does a 404 page need a meta description tag?** If yes filled with what, "page not found"? I would say no, if Google really cares more about contents and user frienly site rather than about what is on the page (moreover the 404 page snippet should never show up in Google cause server is sending real 404 code). But after reading all this stuff:   * http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93641   * http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/make-your-404-pages-more-useful.html   * http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136085 on how they suggest to fill up a 404 page (that I always thought should just be a simple 404 page) **I started to feel worried about meta description too**. I'm just looking for some clue/suggestion I might not have thought about, or maybe just reassurance. :) Thanks


What sort of phone numbers are allowed as the WHOIS contact?

Are there any restrictions on the type of phone number I can give as my WHOIS contact? Notwithstanding that it is a phone number which can be used to contact the domain holder. For example, what if I change it to a premium rate line? If the scammers want to talk to me so much, make them pay for the privilege! In the UK, cell phones are more expensive for the caller to call than land- lines, so I suspect a significant number of people are already listing a "premium rate" phone number. EDIT: Many thanks to Chloe and Eduardo for their links to WHOIS privacy services, but I'm really interested in an answer to my question. The idea of someone using a premium rate phone number was to set the scene for the most extreme example of a phone number that defeats the purpose of having a phone number published in the first place.


Does Anyone Know how to Export the Drop off Rate for all the pages in Google Analytics?

What i want is to be able to export the drop off rate information from user flow in GA. As you guys know, The only way to see this information is to actually click in each "group" within the user flow dashboard to see this information. Does anybody know if this information could be taken from Google Analytics API? Or if there is an alternative way to get/export this information?


CDN for authenticated sites

We have a site that requires users to sign into. Typical stuff. Today, all the content (dynamic and static) is behind the login process, and you cannot access any of the pages or files via a URL unless you are logged in. This even applies for images, css, js, etc. This is a requirment, the content cannot be open to the world. We have been thinking of moving the static content off to a separate server for performance and scalability reasons, but are unsure how to do this, and still have these files secure and not open to the world. Basically, the authentication would need to be passed to the separate server (or CDN) and verified before we could serve it up. Perhaps this is not possible, and it is not a good case for separating static and dynamic content. We are running a Microsoft Stack - ASP.NET, IIS 6, but could go IIS 7-7.5.


Is it possible to share SSL certificates across servers?

We have a web application we will be launching soonish and for right now we just have one SSL/HTTPS certificate. We have this one certificate shared across 3 servers(in a cluster for load balancing) which we've been told is "not the right way"... So do you always have to buy N certificates for N servers or is there a special "shared" certificate or such? Why is it not right to share the certificate when these 3 servers are exactly the same hardware and software?


HTTP meta refresh keeps looping in older browsers

I added an HTTP meta refresh to my site like this:               <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://mysite.com">       but it seems that the browser keeps looping (refreshing) in older Firefox browsers, while in the new version (30.0) it doesn't.


.uk registration of existing .co.uk domain with a different registratr

I currently have .co.uk with name.com who do not provide a .uk domain. Is there anyway I can register a .uk domain with a different provider for this domain?


What are some methods to rewards users for participating on your site?

This is not strictly programming related, so I apologize. But I think this fits within the scope of this site. We have a community site (part forum, part wiki, part knowledge base) where our users can participate in discussions, Q&As, etc. One of the things I would like to do is have some type of reward system where users feel like they are gaining something by participating. And something that gives them the incentive to come back. Stack Overflow has reputation and badges. Digg, Propeller and Reddit have their own systems whether that be points, karma or whatever. I am thinking something that has some RPG style elements but I can't think of any good examples. Does SO have any ideas that could be useful in this scenario?


Best way to let users choose country/language when submiting an URL to a directory

I want to offer the user the possibility to add the country/language for websites they would submit to a fairly simple website directory. I have a folder with flags from http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/ . The flag images are named according to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, meaning that I could make a PHP script that would be able to retrieve images and the name of the country retrieved from the image name (not the full name, but it wouldn't be necessary). Just to make things clearer, I couldn't find a proper combo-box jQuery plugin for my needs (that would act exactly like the native but with an icon before the text) and don't really have the time to develop one on my own. Considering the number of images, I also wouldn't just display them all with a radio box near them. Also, having a classic drop-down list would be a nightmare for me as I would have to assign the short country name manually to each entry, or do it once for every country. Offering the user a dropdown list with the short country names but no flag near them would also be unfriendly and confusing. The idea is that every website featured in the directory would have the country flag icon near it. I have the images named properly but I don't know how to let the user choose the right image for their website. Any idees? Thank you all in advance! **EDIT** Temporary solution is this file: http://www.andrewpatton.com/countrylist.csv It contains a list of countries including various other info, like the short country name, the same name that's used for the flag images. I can take that information and have a classic like this:               <select name="countries">          <option value="ro">Romania</option>          <option value="ie">Ireland</option>          <!-- and so on -->     </select>      Still, If anybody has a better idea...


SSL versus EV SSL

As I understand it, SSL certificates verify the connection between the host and the browser, preventing MITM attacks. Is it true that EV SSL verifies the host itself, thus preventing (in theory) phishing attacks? Are there any other differences between EV SSL and regular SSL?


Why doesn't Google specify that a search result is a paywall site or least demote their search rank?

A rather suspect SEO paywall trick is to allow web spiders from search engines to see all content but lock the content behind a paywall for all other visitors. For example:   * What Google sees   * What you will see As this unfairly advantages dishonest websites over honest websites in search results, why doesn't Google either:   1. Mention that a website is behind a paywall; **or**   2. Demote the website's search ranking by some sizable margin? Given the skill of Google engineers, it would be trivial for Google to act as a normal visitor and check for selective paywalls.


Using Google Analytics tracking URLs in Facebook ads

I generated the following Google Analytics tracking URL to use in a Facebook ad: > > https://www.somewebsite.org/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=schools&utm_content=newsfeed&utm_campaign=facebookad3 I know the ad is being clicked (Facebook ad manager data) but the referred traffic is not appearing in my site's Google Analytics data. I think it's because Facebook is doing some weird redirect URL modifying. Any ideas?


Redirecting example.com to www.example.com in Go Daddy

If I go to `http://www.example.com/`, it's perfectly fine. If I go to `http://example.com/`, then it redirects me to Go Daddy's site. I'm using Google App Engine to host my site, as it's free and pretty cool, and I've not bought the hosting option from Go Daddy. How exactly do I change it to have both the **example.com** and **www.example.com** versions go where they're supposed to?


expired domains database

Does anyone know of a reliable expired domains database that I download and query against, without needing to connect through an API? Also, something that has older data would be nice. If such a database does not exist, what data sources do you recommend to setup my own.


Rich snippets for small sites

So far, I've seen rich snippets in Google search results only for large sites with a high number of elements (people, events, recipes, etc.). Does anyone know of an example where rich snippets are displayed for a small site with only a handful/a few dozen elements? Our own site has around 10 events (we are a specialized conference organizer) with rich snippet markup but so far they aren't displayed. To avoid misunderstandings: I'm interested in hearing about all types, not just events. To clarify: We are using Google's rich snippet testing tool. Everything fine there.


HTTPS on my ASP.NET 2.0 application

I have an application developed using asp.net 2.0 and the goal is to make the webpage secure by using the https protocol. I have searched all over the internet for some insight on how to accomplish this, and I have read about certificates, and so on, but couldn't quite figure this out yet. So my question is, how can I accomplish this? Explain this to me as if I didn't know anything about https. I am using IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0.


How can I simulate a slow connection for page load?

I have a fast server, and a reasonably fast home Internet connection. How can I simulate my page loading on a slow connection?


Any tools to limit my bandwidth to 56k to test how long it takes to load my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I simulate a slow connection for page load? Which software or method could I use to limit my connection speed to 56k or other amounts, and load up a webpage I am hosting to see how long it would take to access for users with a slow connection?


Can someone explain how FaceBook's cookie tracks you while logged out?

This article claims that Facebook tracks what you do, even when you're logged off of Facebook, via cookies. Now, a cookie is just a text file... that is read/written to while you're actually on that site, correct? If I'm on Google, how is Facebook writing to a cookie at that point? My site uses Fb login, so my users are asking me about how all these changes Fb has gone through recently affects their privacy, and they're linking me all these articles that sound false to me.


about Domain Age for main and sub-domains

We are doing some SEO projects and I was just wondering wether the domain age for the main domain would always the same with its sub-domains? I have seen both yes and no answers in other forums, just want to be sure.


My old domain is getting more PR while new is at PR 0, Please help me understand this

I am a web developer and I had a website for over 3 years, I mostly work local so no high traffic. Recently I started a blog on my website and around **2 months ago I got PageRank 1**. After that I bought a new .com domain and move site to new domain and forwarded all traffic to new domain via htaccess file. Fine. But **now my previous website had got PageRank of 2 but my new address still has PageRank of zero**. Help me to understand this.


Bingbot requests from Google IP address

We have some suspicious requests to our server,               74.125.186.46 - - [24/Aug/2014:23:24:11 -0500] "GET <url> HTTP/1.1" 200 16912 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"     74.125.187.193 - - [24/Aug/2014:23:24:12 -0500] "GET <url> HTTP/1.1" 200 20119 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"      As it shows, user-agent shows it is bingbot. But whois data of IP address(74.125.186.46 and 74.125.187.193) shows it is from google servers. So is it Google,Bing or any other content scrappers?


How to measure the conversion rate of your Amazon affiliate program?

I plan on selling products through the Amazon affiliate program. What I know I can track is:   -what products people view on my website (default `Google Analytics` pageview behaviour).   -what affiliate links people click on my website (with `GA` `_trackEvent`).  What am I missing is:   -what products people end up buying after clicking on the affiliate links. **Does the Amazon affiliate program offers you any mechanism for linking a purchase with some data from your website?** _I noticed that I was able to add custom parameters and values to my affiliate links and the link checker was still happy with them, if Amazon gave the links that initiated an order then I would be able to cross reference the orders using custom parameters..._


Google is not picking up meta description approximately 50 percent of the time on our website

We have a valid description meta tag on our website. We recently updated it. Temporarily we included a character (plus symbol) that may have been invalid. Since including this character, google would ignore the description meta tag and pick up some text from an overlay (semi transparent div with a message in the middle about data refresh) as the description. We then fixed the description by replacing the + with its html equivalent: `+` Since fixing this, google is showing the correct meta description, but only half of the time (approximately) We forced a re-index using google's webmaster tools for our site but the problem is still present 3 days later (google alternates randomly between showing the correct description, and the text in our overlay) Is there a way to force google not to use text from parts of a page if it can't use the meta description (or decides not to). Failing that, is google simply taking too long to fully recongise that we fixed the meta description?


How do I know whether a URL returns an HTTP 404 status code?

For any given URL, how can I (dis)confirm whether it returns an HTTP 404 status code? I found this tool but isn't there a cleaner, more natural way to find out, independently of other people's tools? For example, how do I know whether this broken link is a genuine 404 or not? I took a quick look at the source code but I saw nothing about a 404 status code. **Edit** I found what I was looking for in developer tools/Google Chrome Console. The broken links turns out to be a 404 indeed:![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0Ez7x.png) Thanks for pointing out!


Turning my website into a non-profit

I was given an established website about a year ago. It makes some money on ads, but not much (less than 10k/year). I am no longer able to manage the site and am considering turning it over to another person. I don't want them to turn around and sell it. It was suggested that I establish a non-profit of sorts and transfer the assets to that entity. Does anybody have experience or advice on this subject?


Should I block bots from my site and why?

My logs are full of bot visitors, often from Eastern Europe and China. The bots are identified as Ahrefs, Seznam, LSSRocketCrawler, Yandex, Sogou and so on. Should I block these bots from my site and why? Which ones have a legitimate purpose in increasing traffic to my site? Many of them are SEO. I have to say I see _less_ traffic if anything since the bots have arrived in large numbers. It would not be too hard to block these since they all admit in their User Agent that they are bots.


Exclude a sub directory in a protected directory

I need to exclude protection on one of the folder inside a protected directory with .htaccess I put .htaccess in here:               /home/mysite/public_html/new/administrator/.htaccess      The directory need to be exclude from protection:               /home/mysite/public_html/new/administrator/components/com_phocagallery/      My .htaccess file :               AuthUserFile "/home/mysite/.htpasswds/public_html/new/administrator/passwd"     AuthType Basic     AuthName "admin"     require valid-user     SetEnvIf Request_URI "(/components/com_phocagallery/)$" allow     Order allow,deny     Allow from env=allow     Satisfy any      I tried but not working on my purpose. I suspect my path to the excluded directory may have some mistakes.


Alternatives to using 3rd party Dynamic DNS

I am looking to set up dynamic DNS in order to make accessing a home server easier. Is there any way I can get around using 3rd party site (like `dyndns.org`). Is there a way to set up dynamic dns myself or are there really good reasons for using those sites? A major concern of mine is the fact that I want to use my own domain name and that usually costs on these sites.


How is time spent on page measured?

How do analytics applications (like StatCounter or GoogleAnalytics) measure time spent on page? Is that possible without JavaScript? I guess they reloading 1x1 web-bug or something after certain amount of time, am I right?


How much significance does Google give to the presence of search terms in the domain name?

When setting up a new website, how important is it to include keywords and potential search terms in the actual domain name? How heavily is this weighted when it comes to ranking highly on google searches?


Opening up a static url when using Passenger WSGI with Django?

I'm currently developing a site hosted on dreamhost, using django, which is served up through passenge wsgi. Right now, all requests are being passed to the django app. I'd like to be able to serve static content directly through apache, rather than having it go through the app. Is there a way to get passenger to realise that urls with a certain prefix are special, and should just go through to apache?


Where may I receive some opinions about site designs?

I´m working on a new design for my website. It´s almost finished. I would like some other people to look at the new design comparing it to the old one and just tell me if they like it more or less, or what opinions do they have about it. Where could I do that? I have an account at dribbble for some time now, but I´ve just recently added me as a prospect there, so, until I get "selected" I can´t post anything. Is there any other places where you think I could receive some opinions from other fellows? After reading the FAQ, I understand that I can´t do that here. Thanks! Rosamunda


How to leverage browser cache using .htaccess on nginx?

I'm trying to increase the pagespeed of our website ubercore.co. I'm using PageSpeed Insights for Chrome extension to analyze the pagespeed. It has suggested me to "Leverage browser cache". This is where I'm stuck. I've tried some modifications to .htaccess file like this:               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##      and get nothing. Later did some research and found that .htaccess is only for Apache server. Correct me if I'm wrong. But, when I see the header response of our webpage found that the server is nginx. Then why my host has the .htaccess file in web root? I'm confused. What I need in short: How to cache static contents for this site? Useful links: Nginx wiki **Update 1:** Here is a screenshot of what I have, server is nginx: ![Respnonse headers](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QXeNs.png) My question is simple, **I need to cache all static content given the environment.** **Update 2:** As suggested by dan found that the server is indeed Apache not nginx. I don't really understand it but let it be it's off topic. Now my problem: Server software : **Apache/2.4.7 (Unix)** Need : **.htaccess code to set browser cache expiry time.**


IIS and content caching

I'm a web developer and administer of a Windows 2008R2 Cloud Instance with IIS 7. I recently made an update to our website, but when I revisited the website, the website was being viewed with old stylings. I did a refresh (shift + reload button in Firefox) and of course the website displayed as it should. I didn't worry about it, until my client had the same issue in Safari. So, my question, in general, is, how do I prevent this from happening again, and yet still afford some caching of our site? I noticed we did not have content expiration set up on our webserver sites, so I've set that up, but did I really need to? I've also looked at Etags, and, honestly, it's hard for me to know whether or not I should use them or not. One comment I read somewhere there isn't really any issue with Etags scenarios in IIS (even in webfarms)... but, I dunno. Anybody have any suggestions, links, info? Thanks.


Can Adwords be cancelled by Google because of improper IE6 site rendering

A client just got a notice from Google saying that their Adwords campaign has been put on hold because the site is:   * Improperly rendering or   * Under construction or   * Needs a special program to run Now the site is improperly rendering on IE6. On everything else, including IE7+ it's fine. If this is the issue, would putting up a "Looks like you're using an older browser" message instead of the site for IE6 be a solution? Or must the site look good in IE6 for the Adwords campaign to continue?


How to obtain a page's GUID in Composite C1 CMS?

Question is pretty simple, I think. How can I find out what the page GUID for a certain page in my Composite C1 website is? I need it for RSS reading from a Blog within the CMS.


Can a sitemap index file point to sitemaps in another directory?

I am creating multiple sitemaps for a site, and for the sake of organization I would like to put these sitemaps into their own directory (of course the sitemap.xml file will be in the root site directory). Is this possible? I've looked through the protocol and it doesn't address this issue. * * * **UPDATE** I did not clearly state my issue, which is this. If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, such as `http://www.example.com/sub1/sub2/sitemap2.xml`? Sitemap2.xml does not include paths that is only for /sub2/. Sitemap2.xml might contains links such as `http://www.example.com/FooBar`.


Rich snippet errors in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool for category pages

I'm receiving the following errors in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool: ![Rich Snnipets Tools Errors](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wE4Fv.png) It seems like the page for the category "galeria" does not contain these fields. There are also some more errors like this (all with categories links). The strange thing is that the first category doesn't show those errors. Anyway, I added the "entry-title" fields:

Categoría Biología

         ...
      but the error is still there. Also, "author" and "update" doesn't seem to make sense here (categories), so should those messages be ignored? **Update:** Here is a link to Google's Structured Data Testing Tool for the page to demonstrate this, and to view the HTML code by clicking on the HTML tab.


what's a good jquery-based content slider?

I've searched around there's so many but none seems to fit the requirements. so here is what i'm looking for: - needs to be lightweight (10+kb of JS just to slide images around is an overkill in my opinion and this is where most of the sliders fail at) - not many effects are needed, simple slide or fade will do - possible CSS3 support with fallback to jquery.animate would be a plus. - it should let you put links on the images without having to use a caption I tried nivoslider its too heavy, flexslider is 11kb minified javascript, anythingslider is 15kb minified, orbit is now part of foundation and the latest version is also too big.


Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?

I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still indicate errors with my name-servers. Here is what I have done so far,   * Made new nameservers in my namecheap account    * (`ns1.domain.com`) and (`ns2.domain.com`) with the same IP as my VPS only has one IP.   * Then I went in and changed the name servers for the domain itself to the newly made name-servers. Is there any more to be done? The VPS does not have cPanel, and this is my first time setting up LAMP, and dealing straight from the command line for everything without the help of WHM or cPanel. Thanks everyone, necro.


How can I determine why my site loads slowly in Google Chrome?

My site seems to be making my Google Chrome hang. I assume it has something to do with javascript. Is it just my personal computers chrome or everyones chrome? http://blog.blundell-apps.com It work's in my Firefox, it used to work in my chrome. I was wondering if it was just my GChrome or everyones. Apart from just asking you now. Is there any automated ways for me to check this? If it is working for you could you say so. Then what would you think the issue is in my browser? If it's not working for you, could you recommend how I would go about debugging it since I can't load it in chrome, I can't load firebug.


How to check on the 99.99% Up time Guarantee?

I subscribed to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) which promises 99.99% of up time guarantee. But I often encounter down time, slow access time and I'm thinking about how to "get them". Is there anyway/ service that allows me to prove that the web hosting provider isn't delivering the 99.99% up time guarantee?


Google can't recognize Schema.org image property from Product

How can I use `itemprop="image"` from http://schema.org/Product so Google can recognize it in this case?


Awstats IIS Log configuration fields extended

Good Day: We are _implementing_ AwStat in our IIS Servers and after reading the documentation and browsing some googled results, we still have questions... so where's the best site for asking them? hehe :)   * _IIS Log configuration_. Awstat is very specific in what you must "check" and what not to check, **but it gives no reason for that**... will it work correctly with more fields?   * If we configure both _sc-bytes_ and _cs-bytes_... Will it duplicate the info? I think both fields are useful.   * The same server redirect by Tomcat Conector to three different contents (/blabla /blablo2 /bleble)... ¿What will you do to get different statics of them? Awtstats can't filter by 'cs-uri-stem' filter... Thanks in advance.


Need Help With H1 Tags for Product Sub-pages

The site I'm currently building will feature a range of products for the organization it represents. Each product will have a main landing page and a series of sub-pages for "About", "Pricing", "Contact", etc. I'm a bit confused on the best way to handle the `h1` tags for these pages. Each page will have the organization's logo as an image at the top. For the landing page of each product I was planning on `<h1>Product Name</h1>`However, on the sub-pages, I'd still like to retain the title of the product.... Would it be acceptable to use `<h1>Product Name — About</h1>`, `<h1>Product Name – Pricing</h1>`? Is there a better way to do this?


Web crawler tool that generate a list of all the anchors used on a site

I'm looking for a web crawler tool that'll go through all the anchor text on a whole web site and generate a list for me to check. I want to make sure all the anchors are really descriptive outside the context. I don't care if it's web based or a desktop based software.


Need assistance matching a general theme style as well as eCommerce capability

I'm in the process of acquiring a new design client. They are getting into the business of "auto parts wholesaling" and they want a storefront. My preference is/was to create something from scratch. However, here is an established trend in their particular market (similar parts, layout, etc). They _insist_ on following the existing visual trend, as per the following: http://www.xtremediesel.com/ http://www.thoroughbreddiesel.com/ http://www.alligatorperformance.com/ My plan of attack at this point is to find a comparable WP theme and a flexible (but useful) backend/product management. Their current demo site (which their previous developer made a stab at) is using Pinnacle Cart. It is no where near what they need, nor is it intuitive to work with. I was actually considering Magento for its greater abilities but I'm still considering options. That said, my two primary dilemmas are as follows: 1) I need a theme that mimics the general style of those listed. They explicitly said they didn't want anything too clean (e.g. ThemeForest, Woothemes) as it "wasn't rugged or busy looking enough" for their field. 2) I need a WP/Magento/WP e-Commerce (or any one of a host of other) plugin that will allow for bulk import/update of nearly 200,000 products, descriptions and images. I'm not opposed to manually interfacing with the DB for import, but in the end, I need a store/system that doesn't needlessly add 50 tables to accommodate some "wet behind the ears" concept of table normalization and is easy to add to. Anyway, if anyone has any quality suggestions regarding either of these issues, it would be most appreciated. Best.


Are there best practices for preparing users for the launch of a revised web site?

We were contracted to revise and modernize a static web site that is very active in terms of adding content but had not been significantly reorganized since the mid-2000's. We are migrating them to a CMS and adding a ton of new functionality, reorganizing the content, etc. However, we are concerned that just throwing the new site out there upon approval from the client will be a bit shocking to their user base and may generate a fair amount of backlash and complaining on social media which we would like to limit/avoid. Are there any best practices to guide us in preparing the users to "get over it" or otherwise mitigate hostility to something new?


CloudFlare blocking NVD3 Chart on my website

I have installed NVD3 Chart on my website today only and now I find that CloudFlare blocks it so the site hangs till continuously. I am sure that this is an issue with CloudFlare because when I access my website by visiting the direct IP of the server I am able to use everything, but when I visit it via the domain name and hover over the graph, the browser hangs.


Any free web analytics/tracking services without JavaScript?

Is there any free web analytics/tracking service that can work without JavaScript on client side?


What is domain "masking" or "cloaking"? Why should it be avoided for a new web site?

What exactly is the domain name "masking" or "cloaking" offered by some hosting companies, (as opposed to redirection), and what are the various reasons it should be avoided when setting up a new web site "on the cheap"?


Lost traffic from Google because of meta-tag adding

I have a site aroundnails.com. It has English version on subdomain `en.aroundnails.com`. Reading about language related meta-tags for Google, I have placed such a meta tag on the main page of main site:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/" />      By this way I have tried to say Google, that my site on `en.aroundnails.com` is the english version of main site, not a duplicate. After two days I have lost a huge part of traffic from Google, more than a half. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/R8ZvB.jpg) At the beginning of september I have moved this meta-tag, but traffic remained at the same level. Hope somebody can help me to solve this issue.


Where is the best place to buy domain names and how much should I pay?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  New Domain Registration - Price differences I want to buy a domain name. I plan to set up my own A, NS, and MX records using Slicehost. So I guess I just need the cheapest place, right? How much I should be paying for .com or .org?


Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up content based website

Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up QnA content based website.


I have a domain and hosting service, how do I make a website?

I just got a domain and hosting service. What is the kind of program I need to make a website to upload it to the hosting server? I tried to Google it, but all of the results were about using X hosting service.


Getting rank for keywords that I don't want to appear on my website

One of my products has two names. One of them is what I consider correct and thus it is what I want to appear on my website. The other name is incorrect for me, so I would like to avoid it. But I know that many people will search my product using the "bad" name. How could I get the "bad" name indexed for my site on search engines even if nobody can read it there? Of course, I want to do it "legally" so that no engine will ban my site considering it as cloaking, black hat SEO, etc... EDIT: Having that "bad" name on my backlinks is not an option. For example I would perceive user reviews connecting my site to that word as a negative point. Maybe having my site as a search result for that word could be negative as well, but I think it is worth it.


Where do I get the standard, tiny Facebook and Twitter icons?

I've seen a lot of sites with tiny 't' and 'f' logos for Facebook and Twitter. They're pretty common, but the only images I can find available are for paid icon sets. Are people really using custom icons for these or are Facebook and Twitter offering official ones somewhere on their websites?


clean urls and differences in hosts

I am developing a relatively static website, where I want to be able to access each page without typing .html (or .htm or .xhtml ...) at the end (`/about` not `/about.html`). I am developing using the Apache 2.2 server (in OSX). Links like the above work just fine. No monkeying around with `mod_rewrite`, they just work. However, on my actual web host (fatcow.com) this does not work (a link to `/about` just raises a 404 error). I've called them and they don't seem to know what is going on... or particularly think it is their problem. They are using Apache 2.0. What is going on here and what is the best method for getting around it? I'd prefer a solution that didn't involve adding a `mod_rewrite` entry for each of my pages, but if that is needed how would I do that? For reference, if I do go with a `mod_rewrite` solution it would look like:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^about$ /about.html     #and so on, for each page


Promoting my site on Facebook with my primary account, or create a new account?

I am about to launch my website and I so far have been using my personal account to promote the site in relevant groups etc. If I start to promote the site in a larger geographical area should I be concerned with using my personal account? Should I create a fake account just for this promotion so it's not tied to my personal account? I have created a Facebook Page, but I can't use it to post in relevant FB groups which is where the interested people would be. Thoughts?


Finding out who owns a Google Analytics UA code

An old client got in touch asking about GA access, but is isn't something we have and the company we believe has it isn't claiming ownership either. Is there a way to contact Google to ask who the owner of a particular UA is? Or anyway to do it without Google? I should mention, we don't want ownership, we just want to track down who has it and point the client in the right direction.


What is a "Public DNS registered IP address"?

I've been reading this ICANN agreement on new TLDs and it has this section on DNS service availability, which i don't completely understand: > Refers to the ability of the group of listed-as-authoritative name servers > of a particular domain name (e.g., a TLD), to answer DNS queries from DNS > probes. For the service to be considered available at a particular moment, > at least, two of the delegated name servers registered in the DNS must have > successful results from “DNS tests” to each of their **public-DNS registered > “IP addresses”** to which the name server resolves. If 51% or more of the > DNS testing probes see the service as unavailable during a given time, the > DNS service will be considered unavailable. I'm not 100% sure of the part in bold: does "public" refer to the DNS or to the IP addesses? It looks like there's a mistake and that the hyphen should have been after "DNS". So basically does it mean " **the public IP addresses registered in the DNS** "?


Why does google crawl my page only once even I set changefreq:daily?

I have built a new site, submitted my homepage URL to Google, and my sitemap(I have about 6,300 pages.). Now when I type `site:mydomain.com`, there have 1,992 pages have crawled. But they were all crawled at Jul 20(The day I sumbitted sitemap). In my sitemap, I set different changefreq and priority for my different page URLs. But I have 3 pages set `changefreq:hourly` and at least 120 pages set `changefreq:daily`, 3,000 pages set `changefreq:weekly` and the rest are `changefreq:monthly`. But why does Google not crawl my pages as I set `changefreq:hourly`, `changefreq:daily`? My site is about news(from Bing api). Community, forum, photo, etc. now are in testing. In `www.google.com/analytics` every day I get about 15 visitors (most of them are our stuff) And in `www.google.com/webmasters`, my site now has `58 queries`, `2,500 impressions`. How can I improve Google's crawl frequency?


If I have a page rank of 5, and I get alot of backlinks from sites with PR 1, will I then decrease in PR?

As the title says, will I? Ex: I have PR 5, and suddenly a thousand sites link to me and they all have just PR 0, 1 or 2, will this cause my PR to drop?


how is sites such as alexa.com monitor all web wide sites traffic in the internet ?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  alexa and compete Hello, i'm trying to understand idea of traffic monitoring sites such as alexa.com , which can monitor traffic for any site in the internet (although if it not registered account underit and didn't put any code to alexa for help it to monitor this site traffic) ??


Why are image sprites usually only created for ".png" files and not ".jpg"?

I was wondering why when people talk about sprites they only mention `.png` files. Is there any problem in creating sprites for `.jpg` files?


"NS1" and "NS2" A records suddenly required?

I have a VPS server that I host several sites on. One of the domain names I use for a site hosted on the VPS is registered through a different company. The site was working fine until this morning when it randomly went down. After hours of talking to my hosting service support, they decided that the problem was I did not have an A record for `NS1` and `NS2` pointing to my name server's ip addresses and they claimed the absence of those `A records` are why the site went down. I have never heard of needing an `A record` for `NS1` and `NS2` before. I am confused as to why the site would work just fine without the `A records` and then suddenly go down when no DNS changes were previously made. Could someone explain this to me?


Does submitting 'URL and all linked pages' help with new website indexing?

I am aware that sitemaps are one way to provide lists of page URLs to Google bots. However, Google webmaster allows one to fetch a page as Google and to submit the 'URL and all linked pages'. Does this accelerate new website indexing (assuming the fetched page contains links other pages on the site) or not?


Is gzip compression available for GitHub pages?

I'm using GitHub pages to host my site. While checking Google PageSpeed Insights, it recommends that I enable gzip compression. Since I have a static site hosted on GitHub, I'm not sure that is possible. Is it possible to enable gzip compression on GitHub?


How to tell whether spammers are bots or humans?

How can you tell if the people that are spamming your forum or website are in fact bots or human spammers? **Please note that the question is not about preventing spammers. It is to _determine if the people that are already spamming_ are bots or humans.**


Apache Reverse Proxy

I would like to host 2 Joomla! websites on separate machines using XAMPP with Apache. I need to make sure it is configured the correct way but I am not sure if I understand how it is to be written in the config files.(on both PC's) things to be configured as far as I know:   * Host file   * httpd file to allow proxy   * vhost file I have all the basics set up on the "proxy" to run multiple websites from the one server. However I want to put one of the websites on a separate server on its own and still be able to run multiple sites from the first. for the sake of example my IP address from the ISP is `12.123.124.12` the internal addresses for each machine:   * server1: 192.168.1.146   * server2: 192.168.1.114 I know that I can do this from one machine with Virtual Hosts but I would like to accomplish it with two separate machines...


Should I use CNAME or A record for Tumblr custom domain in case of .msk.ru TLD?

I'm setting up custom domain for tlog and already have domain name like `<business-name>.msk.ru` Depending on official Tumblr help in case of third+ domain name I should use CNAME DNS record, not A. But it seems like I'm not so good in DNS related things. So... does `.msk.ru` domains counts as third level or not?


What hosting control panels do major websites use?

I use cPanel for my personal website only because it came standard when I bought the domain name, but recently it came to my attention that there are other control panels available. I was curious as to whether major websites such as Amazon, Google or Facebook use cPanel or whether they have their own method of running their websites?


How to find out if a soundtrack will be allowed by youtube or not?

Members on my site are uploading lots of videos to youtube. They usually add soundtracks to the videos and it's frustrating for them if the video gets rejected or blocked because of the soundtrack. Is there a way to find out beforehand if the soundtrack will be rejected or blocked?


DDos Mitigation Services

Any have any experience using these? And what are the pro's and cons? Can you expect a high level of false positives? Are they 100% effective?


How to track a cronjob running on my site?

I have an old Joomla 1.5 site hosted on a shared Bluehost server. Recently my .htaccess files are being rewritten every 10 minutes, and the site has been black listed. It looks like some php cronjob. What is the procedure to track where the file could be? The cpanel provides no features to track malware or any such. How could I track the source of the problem?


How to link my content to a Google+ profile using "rel=author"?

I googled this question and found the answer from here but in featured Google+ I didn't find the options that are mentioned in the above URL. I need my Google+ profile should be resulted in Google result for my keyword. How I can connect my Google+ profile and my website?


Single paging Meta Tag Duplication

How to make Google understand about single paging content issue ? A single page has got above 100 paging ? 1-10 of 199 Go to Page 12345678910 ... like this as mentioned above, Do I need to put fresh meta tag on each page ??? Help me out from this issue ?


Does remote mysql work directly to users?

Recently I started moving my MySql to a remote server to offload the load and bandwith. I thought that when a users connect to the site, the MySql data would be transfer directly to the users, but apparently it does not. My bandwith graph spike to 50Mbps extra from the MySql server keep repeatably hitting my server, I assume that the MySql server first transfer back to main site then transfer data to users. Why does it do this or am I just doing it wrong? Is this how remote MySql work? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.


How can I find out what pages of my site are not indexed by Googlebot?

Google Webmasters Tools show that one of pages of my site isn't indexed (it was added to the sitemap about 2 weeks ago).   How can I find out what page it is?


Redirect link of old webpage to new webpage in Joomla 2.5

I have modified my website `www.vidyaniketan.in`. It is a Joomla 2.5 site. When I search for it in Google by URL, there are several sub-links displayed (e.g., "ABOUT US"). this links to the old webpage. How do I link it to new webpage? I tried following code in my _.htaccess_ file:               Redirect 301 /about_us.html http://www.vidyaniketan.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=468      but unfortunately it's not working.


Why do some hosting companies restrict the allowed characters in DB names?

GoDaddy allows nothing but letters and numbers in database names. Other hosting companies have similar restrictions. Could there be any technical motivation behind this?


Google Analytics : Is tracking status instantaneous?

I'm currently trying to setup tracking at my website. I'm trying to determine whether my tracking is actually working. It says Tracking not detected on the Google Analytics page. However, when I go to the Realtime reporting, it actually says 1 visitor detected and when I log in in another incognito window, it says 2 visitors. So I feel it's actually working. Just wondering is the status instanteous? I just want to know whether it's actually working.


How to package web site configuration for distribution

Is there a way, preferably PowerShell based, to extract all the configuration data for a particular web site, for installing that web site on site at clients?


Bounced emails with email on Google Apps for Business

I use Google Apps for Business. I have things set so I can login at gmail.com using richard(at)wordfruit.com as my login name, and when I send mail it sends from richard(at)wordfruit.com I've had a couple of people tell me that emails bounced. From lots of other people I've received emails fine. People who got bounced emails have contacted me through a contact form on wordfruit.com -- messages through that form get delivered to richard(at)wordfruit.com (the same email that those people got bounces with). One person who got a bounce tried emailing me again later and got a bounce again. Both times, that person was able to contact me through the online form. Where should I look to solve this? Or how can I solve it? Here's a message that one person got: Message: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: Richard(at)wordfruit.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 535 535 Incorrect authentication data (SMTP AUTH failed with the remote server) (state 7).


Will changing from www to non-www version affect my rankings?

I currently force www. and also specify that in Google Webmaster Tools. I know it's recommended to just pick on or the other, and to not use both. But if I change everything to not have www, and I force that in the server configs, and I change it in Webmaster Tools, will it still have an effect on my rankings?


Can I display ads on a site whose domain name includes a trademark?

I own a domain containing a trademarked word. I don't want to get into trouble with the trademark owner so my plan is to use the domain to display information (wiki-style) about the service the trademark owner provides. My question is whether I can display ads on this website to make money. For example, let's say I own Google.org (Google being a trademark). On this domain I would write about the real Google (history, business etc.) Can I get into trouble for having ads on this page including ones that promote other search engines (Yahoo, Bing, etc.).


Is it possible for a website to determine whether the user is browsing through a transparent proxy?

I'm currently browsing through a local transparent proxy. I'm receiving 404 responses from a couple of web hosts, although the proxy works perfectly with everything else; I was wondering whether it could be the websites recognizing and blocking the proxy user. Is this a possibility or is there something wrong with the proxy?


Google Analytics (Universal): Search Term Exclusions

Having recently migrated to the Universal Analytics version of Google Analytics I now am able to use the Search Term Exclusions feature to divert organic branded search to the 'direct' channel instead of organic search. Their documentation is ambiguous about whether this includes the portion of branded search that is in the (not provided) category. Given that both Google Search and Google Analytics potentially can access each other's data, it's plausible that they can divert all the branded search coming from Google properties into Direct. **Q: Does anybody know either way if the branded search traffic that is in the (not provided) pot is diverted to Direct using the Search Term Exclusion feature?** I know why these terms are (not provided), and I also know that Google Search knows what the keyword data is, so it is technically entirely possible for them to do this. I just don't know if they do. Anyone done it and seen a chunk of their (not provided) search go down and their Direct go up? **Thanks**.


Do I need robots.txt?

I want to allow all bots to crawl everything, do I need to create a robots.txt? If the file is missing will it have a negative influence on some crawlers? If I need to create it, what should it look like?


Canonical reference for rel="foo"

The answers to a lot of google-juice questions seem to involve the use of _rel=_ in _a_ tags (eg rel="canonical"). Is there an exhaustive list somewhere of all of the possible options for this tag and what they mean? I found this from W3 schools, but it doesn't have _canonical_ on it and I'm wondering what else it's missing.


Facebook likes reset after moving to HTTPS

I've got a question regarding the Facebook _like_ button. We worked on a piece recently that embeds a number of social share buttons (please see the source code below). When the piece was released, it was on HTTP, and received over 2k _likes_ (the URL 'slug' hasn't changed at all). The site was recently migrated to permanent-on HTTPS, and the _like_ data has been reset, and we've been left with 50 new, recent _likes_. If you see in the source code, the URL is set explicitly to like the HTTP version, which I believe to be correct. Can anyone help me work out what's happened here? Here's the HTML bit of the _like_ button:


Apache Server - Wrong Certificate

At work we are moving a website from "outside" to "inside". Standard LAMP website (Apache, MySQL, PHP). The issue I'm having is that it's serving up the wrong certificate. https:/intranet - on my computer, and some other computers, it's serving up the SSL for intranet like it should... On other computers it's serving up the certificate for https:/intranettest instead. HTTPS:/intranet/ put in browser, yet Apache is serving the wrong certificate. I'm at a loss for "how" it's serving the wrong certificate for some websites, and not others (more wrong than right)... If it hits the server, the DNS switch has occured like it should, so they are arriving at the "New" server instead of the "old". I hope I'm asking this right.


Am I legally required to remove all data associated with a customer (UK)?

A customer has asked that we remove all our stored information from our database. From a moral standpoint, we have no problem with this, but simply deleting all the data will leave us with orders that have no record of who placed them, for example. We use this data extensively for reporting and administration purposes. Do we have to, by law, remove all personal information identifying this customer? Our company is UK-based.


FTP: 550 Permissions Denied

I'm attempting to upload files to my remote server via FTP, but I continually get blocked from uploading files with "550 Permissions Denied". The strange part is that it worked at first perfectly, an only now has it stopped working. The user I am logged into has the proper privileges, but I still can't upload. ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/35wr6.png) ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cieSf.png) Any help?


301 redirect behavior in a drupal system

I am migrating an older site to a newer one which is using drupal. As part of this I am trying to setup some 301 redirects to the new pages but I am getting some unexpected behavior. I added the following line to my .htaccess file: redirect 301 /redirect.html http://www.mysite.com/newpage Unfortunately, what happens is that I get taken to: http://www.mysite.com/newpage?q=redirect.html Which of course doesn't load correctly. Any thoughts?


SEO changing main domain in Google Search results?

At the moment there is 3 domains pointing to same server for content, and of course their have the `canonical` URL set to tell Google about the duplicate content, but the questions is, if we take into consideration the follow:   * url_1 - `something.se`   * url_2 - `somethingelse.com`   * url_3 - `something-notcool.com` Right now if I Google something something for example it will go to `something.se`, but I want to tell Google to use `somethingelse.com` instead. So, how can I do that? I tried with 301 redirects, but it end up in infinity loop when the person loaded `somethingelse.com`...


Difference between mail. and pop. & smtp.?

When hosting a website I often notice that all of the following are defined under DNS:   * POP = mail.example.com   * SMTP = mail.example.com versus   * POP = pop.example.com   * SMTP = smtp.example.com Is it wise to use "mail.example.com" for both POP and SMTP when configuring a mail client? What is the difference between each of the two approaches? It seems to work fine (sends and receives mail as expected).


Is Google search site:yoursite.com result count a good indicator of Google's indexing and does it really mean anything in SEO terms?

I'm not sure this is the best stack site for this question. But it does have to do with Google search functionality so I think it is justifiable to ask here. If I'm wrong, please let me know. My boss likes to check site:yoursite.com almost daily and see the number of results. He thinks it is good when there is a higher number. The weirdest thing is that the number fluctuates wildly. One day it will be 37,000, and the next day it will be 300,000. I've even tried it from two different locations at the same exact time and gotten the same discrepancy. Why would the same site: search return different numbers of results from two different locations or two different times when the site has changed very little if at all? Is the site: result count really a good indicator of how well-indexed your site is by Google? When it's high, does it indicate that you're doing a good job of SEO? I know that that last question is rather silly, but any kind of answer connecting site: to SEO would help. I don't think the number matters much but I need evidence to convince my boss he's barking up the wrong tree.


How do i show visitor count in my page?

I am using google analytics for tracking the visitors on my website. I can view all the stat reports from my google login. I am wondering if i could place the visitor summary stat in my home page of my website. Can i show the reports of google analytics on my site's home page?


How to setup up .htaccess rewrites for http and https on the same site?

I'm having some issues with _htaccess_ rewrites i need to redirect different parts of my site to HTTPS rather than HTTP, for example login and news sections. I'm not sure how to go about doing this in the correct manner. So at the moment I have               RewriteRule   ^login/?$  index.php?p=login [R,L]      I would like to redirect this to HTTPS, I have tried the following:               RewriteRule ^login/?$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/index.php?p=login [R,L]      but it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something? I have rewrite on and all other settings as they work. Also is there anyway to get _htaccess_ to use a different set of rules if HTTPS is set to when it is not? Update: So what I want to do is rewrite `http://www.site.tld/login/` rewrite to `https://www.site.tld/login/code` and then further rewrite to `https://www.site.tld/index.php?p=login`. So the user sees: `https://www.site.tld/login/` but it is actually doing `https://www.site.tld/index.php?p=login`


SpamAssassin penalising DK Signed

I am checking an email for spam via isnotspam.com, in the results I'm receiving the following messages:               ----------------------------------------------------------     DomainKeys check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral (message not signed)     ID(s) verified: header.From=production@studionec.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=          ----------------------------------------------------------     DKIM check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=production@studionec.com     Selector=mandrill     domain=mail2.wdc04.mandrillapp.com     DomainKeys DNS Record=mandrill._domainkey.mail2.wdc04.mandrillapp.com      In the SpamAssassin results it shows the following:               * 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%     * [score: 1.0000]     * -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no     * trust     * [205.201.139.2 listed in list.dnswl.org]     * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record     * -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay     * domain     * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record     * 1.0 DK_SIGNED DK_SIGNED     * 0.2 BAYES_999 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100%     * [score: 1.0000]     * 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message     * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily     * valid     * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature     * 0.0 T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT Fill in a short form with personal     * information     X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.8 required=-20.0 tests=BAYES_99,BAYES_999,     DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DK_SIGNED,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,     SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no     version=3.3.1     X-Spam-Score: 4.8      DK_SIGNED is presumably DomainKeys or DKIM, and it's giving a + 1.0 to the spam score, why is this happening and is there a way of stopping it? I looked up DomainKeys and found the following listed in Wikipedia so is this a bug or poor configuration on my end? > Both DomainKeys and DKIM were published in May 2007. DomainKeys was issued > as a "historical" protocol and DKIM was issued as its standards-track > replacement.


Change domain name for existing site, what is the easiest and cheapest way?

Suppose I have an existing site and I want to change the domain name without changing hosting. I could set up a 301 redirect from the new site to the old site, but that doesn't actually change the name, it just redirects. I could set up new hosting and actually move the site to the new host with a 301 redirect from old to new, but that means paying for new hosting which I'd like to avoid since I don't actually need two sites running. What other options do I have?


Forwarding www.example.com/abc to abc.example.com

I have a web directory that can be accessed via either http://www.example.com/abc or http://abc.example.com. Same physical directory, same contents, just different addresses. I want to redirect to abc.example.com if it is accessed via www.example.com/abc. Can I do it by a simple PHP script? The `index.php` will be the contents for either address anyway.


Is heading (h1, h2, h3...) font size relevant for SEO?

One of our client's SEO agencies has recently began sending a lot of "shady" requests about what should be changed on our client's web site in order to comply to best SEO practices. We suspect their attempt to simply justify additional costs however since its one of our most important clients we can't simply ignore any of the requests based just on our previous experience and without solid evidence to confirm otherwise. The last request we got was to change all headings (`h1, h2, h3...`) font size values in a way that will follow the header hierarchy (`h1` has to be bigger than `h2`, `h2` has to be bigger than `h3` etc.) because the current web layout has a slightly bigger `font-size` value for `h2` than `h1`. This font size permutation was done for pure aesthetic reasons by the agency responsible for designing the new web site and our client fully agrees that it was a good choice. However since SEO is also very important to our client everything that comes from the SEO agency has to be taken very seriously.               h1 {         font-size: 1.1em;     }          h2 {         font-size: 1.2em;     }      My question: **is it bad for SEO if`h2` has a greater value of font-size than `h1`?** Every resource we came across claims otherwise supporting our long-year experience that its only important to create a good heading hierarchy to represent the importance of various page parts, which is of course done properly. We would appreciate any professional insight in this matter and every resource or link is highly appreciated. **EDIT:** I see now that this question was migrated from stackoverflow.com to this website so I apologize if this is a duplicate question however I didn't even know that this website was part of the Stackexchange network. Any info on this subject is still highly appreciated :)


Prevent Google from listing hotlinked images for other sites

I am hosting several domains on my server and hotlink images accross various domains. However, I have found out that in Google searches, the images are listed as originating on the site where the image is _displayed_ (but not hosted!). This can lead to various problems (like the owner of the site losing traffic). Space is an issue on some of the domains, so storing the images for every domain separately is no option. Is there a way to instruct Google to display images only with the sites the images are actually stored on (and prevent that wit hthe others only hotlinking)?


Serving proper 404/410 error codes on dynamic database driven site

a developer I'm working with is having a difficult time serving 404 errors on dynamically generated pages (they get created when the request is made by querying the database to see if the content exists) He has told me (paraphrasing) that it's too late to serve the error because the page has already started loading by the time it finds out if the page exists or not. I'm not really sure how to respond not knowing much about how PHP or apache work Has anyone else run into this sort of issue and if so, how could I resolve it and start serving proper 404 or 410 errors on this removed content? Currently requests are being redirected (not sure if 302 or 301 at the moment) to our 404.php page. Is this an acceptable alternative? Thanks :)


Has the time arrived to forget Flash and Use HTML5?

As I read in HTML5 definition it can do anything that Flash can do! and I ask myself is it right to waste my time to learn flash or should I learn HTML5 instead. Does HTML5 Beat Flash in the future? P.S: Are there any thing that you can do in Flash and still are not possible in HTML5?


Why would you use document.location.protocol instead of plain // prefixed urls?

For instance Google Analytics uses document.location.protocol in the boilerplate for tracking:               <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);       _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>      instead of               <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = '//www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);       })();          </script>      The ssl. sub-domain is a mute argument as https://www.google- analytics.com/ga.js works perfectly well. Knowing Google this most likely is not an oversight. Is there an issue with certain browsers not supporting the // protocol honouring shorthand or is there something else I'm missing? **EDIT:** This does not just apply to Google Analytics (different sub-domain example). The same thing appears on the Font Loader API page:               wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') +         '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js';


Disable serving specific files from web directory based on hostname used

I have very specific problem and I don't even know if I am asking at right place and if it is even possible. I have two domains, lets say domain1.com and domain2.com. Both domains share same root directory. So each file from www.domain1.com/file_url is accessible also as www.domain2.com/file_url I am looking for a way, how to disable SOME of the files when requested with domain2.com. But not all of them, but just selected ones. Is it possible to set some "flag" or attribute for a file so Apache would recognize it and denied it when requested with domain2.com ? Right now, the only solution which come to my mind is to create PHP script and use rewrite of each file in the directory and implement this "flag" checking inside this PHP file. But that would cost a lot of system resources, so I would thought if this could be done else ? **EDIT:** I have forgotten to specify that I am dealing with MANY files ( = thousands ), so I am not able to manually change config file for Apache. And those files are constantly growing since they are user-uploaded. Sorry I forgot to mention this important detail.


Amazon affiliate and multilanguage

I do not know where else to post this question, I hope this StackExchange site is the right one. I have a multi-language site (blog), with several reviews pointing to amazon affiliate product page. My issue is about which country version (.it, .de, .com, and so on) the link should target. The majority of my articles are in italian, and the link point to amazon.it affiliate homepage. As far as I have understood, the various .it, .de, .com, .co.uk version are separated and so are the affiliate programs. Let's say I have an article in English, it could be visited from an Italian, a German, or a US Citizen. Which amazon affiliate page should I link on that page? (Spamming the page with all the links of all the amazon sites does not seem viable, too many links can confuse the user.)


Google Webmasters Tools - Accidentally changed something and quickly switched back

In Google Webmasters Tools I accidently changed Geotargeting to from _No Preference_ to _United States_. I realized that was a mistake and changed it back within 2 minutes. Will changes take effect or will it be ignored because I changed switched it back so quickly? I'm freaking out because I hope it doesn't destroy all of the indexing / SEO. Thanks.


CDN for zocial css file

I am looking to use zocial css file for a site and need to figure out if any CDN hosts this file. If not, I will resort to using the local server (or my own CDN package). I do not think relying on github for this file is the right approach (in the absence of any CDN). I will be happy if anyone else thinks otherwise and shares their thoughts. Thank you!


browse-able hierarchy vs. sitemap

The current site navigation is done through a search form. UX wise, I feel it's the best solution we can currently offer our uses. Because this is the case, I have a sitemap that covers all the pages (5Million). Will it improve SEO, if I built a browse-able hierarchy that its sole purpose is only to help spiders?


Ways To Block Your Freedom and Similar Proxies?

Can anyone think of ways to prevent users from registering to a .php page under certain proxies? What would a group of proxies have in similar that might not effect regular users? For example, if you use Your Freedom, and try to access a .php page, is there any common factor that could be used to keep them off that part of the website in particular? I'm not looking for an answer like 'ban by IP' though. All of the IPs used by Your Freedom are from entirely different countries, and there are infinite ways to change the IP range.


Redirects On Image Files to Counter Google Image Gallery

The recent update to the way that Google displays images appears to have resulted in a significant drop in the traffic reaching the actual pages of our website. We are considering potential solutions for enhancing the likelihood of recapturing some of the visitors who now look at our images in the Google gallery and never click through to our site. My questions are these: If we set up a re-direct on the image files via htaccess, what are the potential risks? Would Google stop crawling the image files? Would Google be unable to display the images in their gallery? Any insight that you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thank you and we look forward to learning from you. Much Peace, Jim