Error Log shows nosy visitors trying to access various admin pages

After experiencing a very high amount of hits on my 404 page, I've started monitoring my website's Error Log. There I've found that through-out the day, there are several attempts at accessing admin folders and editors on my website that I does not exist. For instance, there are attempts at accessing Word Press and fckeditor's admin folders, but I don't have either. Any thoughts as to what I should do about these attempts, and if they should be a cause of worry or not? Examples from my Error Log:               [Mon Jun 23 16:17:17 2014] [error] [client 120.37.236.236] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin, referer: [snipped].com/admin/editors/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/upload/test.html     [Mon Jun 23 16:16:39 2014] [error] [client 178.158.214.36] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/administrator     [Mon Jun 23 16:16:39 2014] [error] [client 178.158.214.36] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/wp-login.php     [Mon Jun 23 10:39:13 2014] [error] [client 120.37.236.217] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin     [Mon Jun 23 08:31:49 2014] [error] [client 27.153.217.87] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/fckeditor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:19 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/editor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:17 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:16 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/FCKeditor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:12 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/editor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:10 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:06 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/Fckeditor      At last, does anyone know how where I can get more information about some of the errors reported in cPanel X's Error Log? For instance, I have lots of entries for > File does not exist: 405.shtml but I have no idea what page or link has generated them, so I don't know where to go to fix the source of the problem.


CSS equal height divs with padding

I have been using this technique before to get equal column heights               #page-wrap { overflow: hidden;}     .page-left, .page-right{float: left; width: 435px; margin-bottom: -5000px; padding-bottom: 5000px; }     .page-left { background: #454545; }                 .page-right { background: #383838; }

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       This works fine but now I need to put #page-wrap inside another DV with margin: 10px;   it works fine in **normal** browsers, but not in IE... I have a Fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/SyAeq/ **EDIT:** Solved! Just adding a {float:left} to #page-wrap did the trick!   Than a {clear:left} in a div underneath to clean it up


What are the pros and cons of running of keeping your Tumblr at mycompany.tumblr.com vs. mycompany.com/blog

I'm thinking it makes sense to run your Tumblr from mycompany.com/blog so the traffic is associated with your domain, but are there any reasons to leave it at mycompany.tumblr.com?


Site restyling effecting Google ranking

I have to restyle a website in Drupal, and the client has a clear request: the site cannot drop its position on Google. If I build a new Drupal site, with the same URLs, the same meta and title tags, would it still lose ranking? If I build my URLs like the old ones, does it still lose positions on Google? The old site is also built using Drupal. The final question is: what king of work I have to make sure the site does not lose its position in Google?


Willl a major site redesign hurt my rank in Google?

I have a website where I upload and sell T-shirts. I have about 50 or so designs up and they receive hits from Google. I'm wanting to create a new T-shirt site where anyone can upload T-shirts and sell them. The database will be completely different from the old one. The purpose of the site is changing considerably but it's all still about T-shirts. I wanted to use the same domain name and keep the old T-shirt database and start integrating the new T-shirt DB. I would like to be able to use the rank I have with this site already as a stepping stone for this newer different T-shirt site version. My question is... Will Google penalize me for changing the site too much? Or am I able to benefit from the rank and seniority my page has already for this different version of a T-shirt site. The domain will stay the same and the old T-shirts will stay on there (for now) but the theme of the site will change and more functionality will be added. Any input on this question would be appreciated.


Do news stories have any downside from SEO point of view?

My client releases podcasts every monday and blogs about gaming news rest of the days. He wants his blog posts to appear in Google News (and other news sites). Is there any long term downside of your blog posts being news posts?


possibilites on uploading a file without login in mediawiki

In mediawiki, using api i can upload a file. its getting fine . But it will upload only logged in. i need to customize without login anybody can upload a file . I know without login cannot able to access api fuctionalities. Is there any possibilities to do without login ?


What are the most efficient/effective ways I can build a website for Mobile and Computer?

I want to make a website for one thing, I don't want to make two websites for one thing I want to make one. You probably agree with that. The problem is, we're walking away from this massive 22" screen and chair as we start to stare into the palms of our hands at these screens that can be up to 80% smaller. They try to hit the website again and -- bam, the thing sucks, fonts are all over the place, divs goof up, scripts don't run, things are too wide, I can't read the text, blah blah blah it's garbage. Standard solution? Make another website. Great, but that means I have to make another website. I don't want to do that, I want to make a website once. How do I do that?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  www.mydomain.com secure but not mydomain.com? Hi We've got our website running and https / ssl works just great. EXCEPT when users enter `http://www.mydomain.com` and then enter the secure area and get directed to `httpS://www.mydomain.com` it works fine. But when users enter just `http://mydomain.com` and then enter the secure are and get directed to `httpS://mydomain.com` they get a warning about the certificate being from a website called "www.mydomain.com" while they're trying to enter "mydomain.com" .... Does our SSL cert not cover both www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com? Are we suppose to buy TWO certs, on for each?? Surely not? Any help or pointers to the standard way of doing things like this would be great. We're using Apache HTTPD to forward requests to Tomcat webapps. Apache is taking care of all the SSL connections.


Google Maps: Multiple companies on one location

I'm making some websites, and a few of those are for different companies at the same address (we offer different services under different names). Usually for a company's website I use the hCard format to get Google to show a map of the location when people search for the company. As far as I know this also makes the company name appear on the map itself. However, because several companies are running from the same building, we don't want to confuse our customers and just show the main company name on the map. Is it possible to somewhere set a preference as to which name to show on a map, but still have Google serve up maps as SERPs for each of the company names?


Redirect blog archive into certain format

I asked the question in WPSE before, but the answer I got so far is a complicated one. I'm actually looking for a `.htaccess` way. Here's what the scenario is: My blog archive URLs were like:               http://example.com/2014/03      I changed my site's permalink from `/%postname%/` to `/%postid%/%postname%/`, and using Redirection plugin, I set a redirection like: ![redirection 1](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mOLdu.png) and it's working. But the problem occurs in the archive URLs. The new archive URL generated with a /date/ basename before the dates, like:               http://example.com/date/2014/03      I'm trying to use the same Redirection plugin to redirect the URL, but failed: ![redirection 2](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FTtUs.png) I then tried writing `.htaccess` on my own (with no `.htaccess` writing experience) with:               Redirect permanent http://example.com/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+) http://example.com/date/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)      with the help of htaccess editor and this blog. But failed too. How can I let my blog not to get 404 on such archive URL? I'm afraid, I'm dumb with rewrite rule till now. :( ## UPDATE Here's how my `.htaccess` file just now:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      And with Liam Sorsby's answer, I tried pasting the code               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ /date/$1/$2 [R=301,L]      just below the `# END WordPress` once, and then tried again just before # END WordPress. But both time failed.


How Google counts the number of anchor texts and keywords in a Blogspot home page?

Since Google consider the anchor text and keyword counts of a webpage for search ranking, I have one doubt regarding this; how Google counts the number of anchor texts and keywords in a Blogspot home page? In the case of website’s home page, it’s possible to count the anchor text and keywords from its index page but in the case of Blogspot, home page would contains all the published posts (not for all blogs and it based on the theme of the blog). In my blog, I have posted so many posts which contains many anchor links, when I searched the keyword density of my Blogspot (`www.example.blogspot.com`) its showing more count for some keywords. Does it is a spam and how Google handle this situation?


How to get the size of a web page (its content)?

How can you find what a particular web page is in size (i.e. MBs)? Before you could right click on a page and choose 'Show Page Info' and there it was. What about now? EDIT: Ideally a way to do it in Safari or Chrome.


HTML Improvements are not updating properly

I use Webmaster Tools for my website and I have removed duplicate titles in my site. But it is not getting reflected in Webmaster Tools. Is there any reload to view the changes in HTML Improvements?


Robots.txt destroyed my ranking?

I had to do a massive URL change stuff (Categories and Products) on my e-commerce site while keeping 301 redirect of old URLs to new ones. I did change category URLs (appr: 800 URLs) to new and improved ones and went live with them; but for an automated (scripted) 301 redirect; I had to get done with new improved Products URLs as well. And to avoid any 404 issues with old category URLs; **I didn't want Google to crawl my site** until I was done and gone live with Products' new URLs; **I put a robots.txt block on my entire site!** thinking that I'll have enough time converting all products to new URLs and keeping Google away of the site. It was intended to be temporary block. When I put robots.txt back to Allow all URLs; things started appearing all wrong! All the site's ranking has gone down! I am confused; what to do now!   * The robots.txt is now allowing all URLs;    * 301 redirect for old URLs is in place and working.    * Entire site has NEW URLs.    * I have submitted new sitemaps And I want to gain the ranking all back to normal. I have submitted new sitemaps and Google's not friendly with them. 99.9% of URLs in sitemap are still saying "URLs blocked by robots.txt". What did I do wrong? And how's it gonna solve the best way?


Session cookie being dropped when moving under the SSL

## The short version: I've got a session cookie being set on a dev site but it's not being picked up when I move to the SSL (so the shopping cart empties when you go to the checkout). When it's set on the **www** site:               # http://dev.domain.ext     Name    devSID     Value   2e9f1b1f6ca718d0961d0257f3297c1a     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      And on the **ssl** side:               # https://dev.domain.ext     Name    devSID     Value   6fe74ccc91b67bce46165d005bfd157e     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      It looks like the session cookie created under **www** isn't being picked up under the **ssl** side (conversely it doesn't go the other way either, if it's created on the **ssl** side it's not picked up on the **www** side). Anyone got any bright ideas? * * * ## The long version (me working it through) I've got a dev site currently on a **dev** sub-domain; the session cookie being set is accessible across the whole domain using a **.domain.ext** type format and is created using a PHP object which loads the parameters from a config table in the database. The same object creates the cookie across all sub-domains so it's not creating duplicate cookies with different path values or anything like that.               Name    devSID     Value   [alpha-numeric hash value]     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      On my local machine the sub-domains used are **www** and **ssl** so the host string reads as **.dev.local** and the cookie is happily read across the entire domain (using Apache's https-vhosts.conf to setup the domains on the server and the Windows hosts file to point them to 127.0.0.1)... and everything is peachy. However, when I upload it to an online dev server (with it's own config and vhosts settings) the cookie gets dropped when moving from the **www** to **ssl** sides of the site and I can't see any logical reason for it. This is what's going on in vhosts:               <VirtualHost [IP ADDRESS]:80 >         ServerName www.dev.domain.ext         ServerAlias www.dev.domain.ext dev.domain.ext              ...     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost [IP ADDRESS]:443 >         [SSL ENGINE BIT]              ServerName ssl.dev.domain.ext         ServerAlias ssl.dev.domain.ext dev.domain.ext              ...     </VirtualHost>      Technically the sub-domains (as defined by ServerName) are **www.dev** and **ssl.dev** however neither of those are actually registered with any DNS servers - the DNS servers just have the higher **dev** sub-domain registered; so I've added that into the ServerAlias list and entries have been made in my Windows hosts file so the unregistered sub-domains resolve on my machine.               [IP ADDRESS]    www.dev.domain.ext     [IP ADDRESS]    ssl.dev.domain.ext      And the session cookie parameters:               Name    devSID     Value   [alpha-numeric hash value]     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      So theoretically that cookie should be accessible across **all** sub-domains (even the live site actually since I've not limited it to the **dev** sub- domain) **but** whenever I move to the SSL side the cookie gets dropped.


Different Title/Description for Google in different regions

I have multilanguage website targeting by subdomain:   * **http://en.site.com/** - Displays only contents in English   * **http://de.site.com/** - Displays only contents in German   * ...   * **http://site.com/** - Displays contents in all languages Title/Description are also translated depending on subdomain. Main domain is in English. I would like to have different Title/Description on main domain **http://site.com/** for users from different region:   * **http://google.co.uk/** should display Title/Description in English   * **http://google.de/** should display Title/Description in German My question: For main domain **http://site.com/** is it possible to return different Title/Description for Google bot from different regions? Or there is only one Google bot and targeting is only completed by search engine, not crawler? Thank you!


What is the impact on SEO for having a div that is removed by JavaScript

What, if any, impact would there be for having a stripped down view of my content in a `<div>` that is quickly replaced by [a much richer view] via JavaScript? Would this be any different than how a `<noscript>` tag is handled?


Google Analytics change stats of my page if I do some changes on it?

the question is : Google Analytics change stats of my page if I do some changes on it ? I don't know how G.A works when we update manually a page (html) For example, if I add a new picture to my gallery, Stats will change or not ? Thanks.


At what visitor share do you stop supporting a given browser?

I'm lead dev for a large website which has a higher than average percentage of IE6 users - about 4.4% of our audience. Our new version is going to make use of progressive enhancement - including transitions and effects as well as rounded corners, gradients, web fonts and other CSS techniques. Obviously there are cross-browser ways to achieve most of these things which require various amounts of work to implement. What I'm currently looking into - and what I'd like your experiences of - is how to decide at what point we draw the line between providing an enhanced experience vs just supporting the functionality. FYI, I believe that this question meets the six guidelines for great subjective questions as defined in the FAQ. I'm after answers detailing why and how, not too short, with constructive comments, experiences, facts and references. Thanks! Adam


About phpmyadmin

I am using phpmyadmin for my database purpose.Myisam is my database engine. I want to know about what is mean about:"choose field to display" in relationship page in phpmyadmin


Is there a way to know if apache receives a request from a public IP not local to your country?

I'm looking for ways to know if an apache server receives a request , from another country (e.g germany) considering its a fair request (no spam , or proxies). I want it either to appear this as a separate entry(using dns request) in apache logs? or some kind of alert . Can this be possible.


Why do CDNs charge so much for private SSL?

I've been looking at various CDN services, and many of them seem to charge a pretty hefty fee compared to the free shared SSL offering. One in particular, CDN77, is offering private SSL for $700/year. Why is the price so high? Isn't the only technical difference between a private/public SSL the ability to use a custom domain name? From what I gather, the only difference would be having to send the key/certificate to them yourself, which shouldn't cost nearly $700 a year. Do they just charge this price because they can?


Transfer page from internal to external

Currently I have a website with a list of audio products (essentially a search engine for audio deals). http://www.soundplaza.co.uk Once you go to the details page, you can then press the 'view deal' button to go to providers site e.g. = http://www.soundplaza.co.uk/all- deals/113/bookshelf-speakers/acoustic-energy-1 This jump between two sites is a bit harsh and I would like to show a transition page, to simply ease them into another site and not scare them off. Within this tradition page I will have a simple loading gif and some graphics showing that your transferring. **QUESTION:** What is the best way to send the details (link, product name etc) to this transfer page, to then wait 5 seconds, to then move on to the desired link... this can in **NO WAY** damage my SEO, if anything `rel="nofollow"` would be great if possible. I have seen that you can submit form to the transition page, then you can use php sleep and then php header to transfer... however I am not sure if php header will transfer SEO value to the provider?


Should we get an EV Certificate?

Our regular SSL provider is offering EV certificates for under $US200, and it just so happens that the certificate for our B2B e-commerce site is expiring in a month (which should give us enough time to get validated). $200 is still pretty reasonable (even if it's 5x the price of a "normal" certificate). Should we do it "Just because"? Are there any downsides to using an EV? The marketing guys like it because it turns the browser-bar green in IE and it just happens to fit the colour scheme of our site perfectly ;) We're not a bank, but we do deal in private, legal details (such as wills, transfers of business, terminations, etc).


What EXACTLY does Compatibility View do in IE8?

I have an ordered list where the text is displaying on the next line from the number in IE 8 (but not other browsers). If I switch on _Compatibility View_ it looks correct. While I think I'll be able to debug this particular issue and fix it, does anyone know of a fairly complete description of what the Compatibility View does, so that next time I can maybe speed up resolution? TIA


Wordpress Multisite- How to restrict a non-wordpress page only to one domain

I am running three blogs from a wordpress multisite. Currently, I am developing a separate, non wordpress application. I want to link this application with blog1. I put the application in the subfoler of my root directory (The Wordpress multisite is installed in the root). I linked the application in the menu of blog1. So far so good. But, it is possible to access the application from all the three blogs. I want the application to be accessible only from blog1-domain/my-app/ but when I tried blog2-domain/my-app, it just opened normally. Generally, the application is accessible from all the three domains followed by /my-app. I don't think it is proper to go this way. Then, what can I do to restrict my app to be accessible only from a my blog1-domain/my-app ? Or am I not using a good blog structure?. I am open to all kind of suggestions. Thank you for your help.


what is the simplest online payment gateway? other than paypal

Or maybe paypal is the most useful of them all.?? to be integrated in asp.net c#


Why Can I See 301'd URL in Google Index

I have a domain, www.timeclockmtsonline that I have 301'd to www.timeclockmts- online.com using the following PHP:               <?php         header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );          header( "Location: http://www.timeclockmts-online.com" );      ?>      However, when I do a google search on with www.timeclockmtsonline.com as the search term I can see a listing for that domain. I thought I'd see nothing. Now I am worried about being hit with a duplicate content penalty.


Changing MySQL password in WHM

When resetting an account password in WHM, I get a checkbox with this option: "`Sync MySQL password with account password`." If an account has multiple MySQL databases, what password is it going to change? I did a test on a WordPress site and noticed that the MySQL password did not change, so I'm curious as to what this setting does.


Forum posting VS signature

Signature VS forum profile section line as backlink VS answering a question and giving a related post URL as the answer is better? Will a signature be better or forum posting and helping with an answer and a link be better. Does Google algorithms consider both as spam/blackhat?


Google Analytics e-commerce tracking - unique order id's

I sell an online piano course. It's a single product that uses a single thank- you URL. On this thank-you page I want to track a transaction of 69 euro, quantity 1. The transaction ID and order ID need to be the samen and unique. How can I edit this code to make these ID's unique instead of '1' which I hardcoded now?               <script type="text/javascript">     pageTracker._addTrans(     "1", // required     "",     "69",     "",     "",     "",     "",     ""     );     pageTracker._addItem(     "1", // required     "",     "Piano voor Beginners",     "Cursussen",     "69", // required     "1" //required     );     pageTracker._trackTrans();     </script>


How to de-index pages from google using robots.txt

I added the no-index tag for the google-bot, but it is kind of taking a long time to de-index some pages since I have over 100k pages I need to de-index lol :))) What is the proper way to de-index pages using robots.txt? Thanks! Any idea how long should it take?


How to transfer a Blogspot blog to a new domain?

I have a blogspot blog, I have purchased a new domain and I want to transfer my old blogspot blog to my new domain. Is it possible? If yes then let me know the procedure.


Images randomly not showing up

I just uploaded a website for a client which looked good while previewing locally. When I visit it on the server though some images aren't loading properly. It seems to be quite random, and sometimes they all load like they should. Sometimes images pop up after a sec or so. This problem occurs in Firefox, Safari doesn't have any problems. All the image links are correct. What am I doing wrong? This is the website: http://alturl.com/ky9o6 and this page seems to have the most problems: http://alturl.com/37czx


How to avoid getting spam through a website?

We seem to be getting A LOT of email spam, we have a combination of the email addresses as `mailto` links and contact forms that send to the same address. What measures can we put in place that will eliminate the majority of spam? **We need to keep a visible email address and contact form so there's no way to just remove those.**


Should I use gzip for compressing my HTML?

I saw from an online tester that my HTML can be compressed about 90%! Is it good practice to use gzip or not? I see that lot sites don't use it. For me it would improve traffic, as some pages contain a lot of data (120 KB of HTML without the images) which can be compressed to a few kilobytes.


H1 vs H2 vs Other for website title/logo and SEO

It is a common practice for front-end developers to put the website title or logo in H1 tag and the title in H2. But most of the time the title of the page/article is more important because it carries the content value. So my question is what is the best approach from semantic and SEO viewpoint. Examples:   * logo - H1, title - H1    * logo - H1, title - H2    * logo - H2, title - H1    * logo - other tag, title - H1 Provided other variants if you think they will have bigger effect.


How to change Bugzilla change privacy notice?

How can I change the privacy notice in both the site and email messages? My instance is not public facing. I don't like this: > PRIVACY NOTICE: Bugzilla is an open bug tracking system. Activity on most > bugs, including email addresses, will be visible to the public. We recommend > using a secondary account or free web email service (such as Gmail, Yahoo, > Hotmail, or similar) to avoid receiving spam at your primary email address.


PrestaShop install SQL error

I am trying to install PrestaShop 1.4.0.17, and reach Step 3. I enter database information, which tests okay, and I choose the second option: Full mode: includes 100+ additional modules and demo products (FREE too!). I choose Next, and receive the error:               Error while inserting data in the database:     ‘CREATE TABLE `shop_county_zip_code` ( `id_county` INT NOT NULL , `from_zip_code` INT         NOT NULL , `to_zip_code` INT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id_county` , `from_zip_code` , `to_zip_code` ) ) ENGINE=’     You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near \’\’ at line 6(Error: : 1064)      This happens if I use either MyISAM, or InnoDB. Why is this happening? This also happens if I drop all database tables, and try again in simple mode. Is there a manual installation method?


Some Punycode URLs redirect to Unicode but others don't, why?

I've setup two subdomains, each using punycode: http://xn--xxa.hawx.me/ -> http://μ.hawx.me/   http://xn--l6h.hawx.me/ -> http://♪.hawx.me/ If you visit the unicode versions, ♪.hawx.me will stay the same in the browser bar but μ.hawx.me will redirect to the punycode version. Why does this happen and is it possible to force it to stay as the μ version when visited?


Whois and server host information privacy

I have a domain that is privately registered, so if you run a whois, you will just the domain registrars name. And below are two questions:   1. Since i am using private registration, is there a way somebody can find out i own it?   2. Will the nameserver information still show even if its privately registered?


Liquid Layout out of Proportion

I am using a liquid layout on my website, but when I view in in my browser I find that when I change the browser window size, the images are stretched out of proportion. Can anybody help?


Why is there such a huge discrepancy between my Google Analytics and Webtrends stats for PDF downloads

I was charged with getting the number of times a specific PDF has been clicked on our site for the past two years. GA registered something like 30 downloads, which at first I found impossible to believe but it is an obscure academic report so I said OK. Person connected to the report couldn't believe it, she said that she has seen sites where this PDF had 8,000 or so downloads over same period. Well Webtrends for our site showed that over 16,000 downloads to that one URL during that same period and 8,000 unique visits. Now I know that server log statistics are practically useless and that when a user clicks on a PDF, the log file can register a bunch of requests to the server but still, this discrepancy is astounding. Even after I filtered out 206 HTTP status codes and as many bots as I could, I still had about 8,000 downloads with about 6,000 visits. We do use tracking codes, but I am using unique page views for this in GA. Tracking codes actually bring up even fewer downloads. Am I right in concluding that a tracking code won't track a PDF linked directly from a search engine, either Google or any other - because obviously our tracking code isn't on any of their pages. Much of our content comes from Google searches. I cannot find keywords or phrases that would reasonably correspond to this PDF in analytics for search terms either. So now I have no idea what to tell this woman. I tend to trust GA WRT pdf downloads. I also find it hard to believe there were only 30 downloads in two years - even an obscure academic PDF. I need to figure this out. Any suggestions? Any advice is much, much, appreciated.


recommend strategy to implement this design

I'm trying to build a website (html only) for a design studio and I am trying to figure out what is the best way to go about it. Layour of a webpage is like this:   * A page is divided into two spaces (think of it as a vertical column like this: `L | R` where L = left side and R = right side)   * `R` page will have images for menu options. For simplicity, let's say we have "Home" and "Contact Us"   * `L` page behaves like a state machine. For e.g., when user clicks on `Contact Us`: `L` is updated with contact us contents and clicking on `Home` updates the content with home contents I'm trying to figure out what would be a good way to deal with this kind of a situation. Please let me know if you need me to be clear or provide more details. Thanks


Limit Joomla user login sessions

I am testing a Joomla installation for making a commercial website where you pay for accessing content. I just found out that it is possible to login from two different computers at the same time into Joomla and start browsing the restricted areas. Is it somehow possible to restrict a login to only one user session?


Should I block search engines with robots.txt on my Facebook app?

There's a few subdomains on my homepage where I tak advantage of robots.txt to block search engines for indexing their contents, like my images and downloads subdomains as I don't want the direct URLs for this content to be indexed. I do it like this:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Now I have a new subdomain 'facebook' which I'll be using to host apps developed for Facebook. My question is, should I use the code above to also block this subdomain? The app itself shouldn't be accessed and used through the direct URL (but it still works I believe, didn't test it though), it should be used through the canvas URL, which is something like `apps.facebook.com/app_name`. I don't mind search engines to index this URL, it's the right one to index. But I don't think it makes sense for them to index something like 'facebook.mydomain.com/apps/app_name'. Should I block search engines with robots.txt for Facebook applications or should I ignore it? Any good reason for allowing search engines to crawl it?


Can I use Google Data Highlighter and Schema.org on same page?

Let's say I have an existing page, and I want to use Google Data Highlighter. Later on I got access to its back end. Can I put Schema.org code directly to that same page?


Does having video on a website increase the quality of traffic coming to the site?

I was wondering if anyone had any actual statistics on this. I was curious if having a video on a website makes an exceptional difference to the quality of traffic coming to the site.


Mailclients checking Links inside mail

We have developed a feature that creates **reservations**. The client **receives an email** containing a link which is clickable **only once**. Some of those reservations **fail** and I can't figure out why. I think that some mail clients (incl. webbased) check the links inside a mail **before** exposing the mail to the reader. Maybe due to malware scanning, tracking, status code checks,.. **Question:** Do you know any mail client which behaves like that? Bonus question: Do those clients stop when the url is defined in `robots.txt` ? Edit: I'm currently checking `access.log` for those links and try to find different access to the reservation links. Hour log files are HUGE and this takes like forever on several servers..


How can I describe villages with schema.org?

I know there is city but I was unable to find any village. How can I describe villages?


Meta keywords single words or phrase?

It is acceptable or recommended to only use 1 keyword per delimiter? Or can we use a phrase? For example:               car, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborgini      **vs**               Audi Car, Ferrari Car, Lamborgini Car      What is considered best practice?


CMS text encoding and common browser decoding; recent change?

I'm managing a CMS-based website. The primary language of the CMS is English. Our content is mostly in English, but user postings are sometimes in other languages. The supporting mySQL database of my site is set to UTF-8 encoding. Until recently, "other language" (e.g. Russian) postings displayed correctly. This in spite of the fact that the CMS declares in the header of each generated page:               <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' />      My best guess is that in the past, browsers commonly took this header declaration as advice, and also looked at content to determine the actual encoding. If, for example, UTF-8 encoding was detected, the heading declaration was overridden. That's how "other language" text was correctly displayed. It helps that iso-8859-encoded text will be correctly interpreted by a UTF-8 decoder, that is, iso-8859-1 is effectively a subset of UTF-8. Question 1: iso-8859-1 is effectively a subset of UTF-8, right? As far as I know, nothing about the site, the CMS installation, or the server has changed recently. But, of course, browser tech is constantly evolving and new browser releases arrive all the time. In the past few weeks, "other language" content is showing up as garbage (mojibake) in the latest versions of Safari (5.1) Chrome (15.0.874.81), and Firefox (7.0.1), at least. All indications are that the "auto" text encoding mode of each is now determining the site pages are iso-8859-1 encoded, end-of- story. When I manually set the browser to use UTF-8, the garbage disappears, and all text is correctly rendered, as before. Question 2: Has the standard/practice changed, so that recent browser releases obey the header declaration of text encoding and won't override it no matter what encoding is actually present? Question 3: If not, what other factors could account for the sudden appearance of garbage where there was none before? (For example, could a subtle change to Apache made by the hosting provider have this effect?) I have no idea why the CMS primary distribution is iso-8859-1 encoded. I've looked at the CMS docs and submitted several queries to support channels, but … no answer. The CMS is definitely capable of supporting other languages; many "official" alternates are available, and so far as I've checked, they all declare "utf-8" in the headers of generated pages There may be some 8859-1 encoding-dependent code deep in the CMS, I suppose. (No, I'm not going to try to find it!) But the existence of a large number of alternative language packs would seem to argue against that. Question 4: (bonus!) If there is no encoding-dependent code in the CMS, what kind of technical reasons might make the CMS developers reluctant to move their primary distribution to UTF-8? Question 5: Am I totally missing some point? Am I totally or partially confused about how text encoding works?


AdSense related website design / Ad Blending

I'm reading websites like websitepublisher and seen sites like environmentalchemistry. They all have those adsense in them, but the ads seem like perfectly blended. I want to earn money from a content website, which i want to describe things about human relationships. I prefer to buy templates from ThemeForest and build a website around it. Would i make a better profit, if the ads are blended like in the first 2 websites or would i be better off with a banner that is placed like in this modern design?   * What are the benefits of these blended ads?   * Would users "leave" the webpage because it looks outdated/oldshool? Thank you


Domain forwarding to a IE "trusted site" opens a blank page

My employer, a University, regularly hosts conferences and other events. While websites for these sites are hosted on our domain, they frequently request customized .com urls. We then forward these domains to the specific site. Recently, we discovered a problem, where a page will not load if the following conditions are met(using a current example):   * website is created on our CMS for a conference `http://continue.weber.edu/nulc`   * a domain is created http://www.nulc2012.com and forwarded to http://continue.weber.edu/nulc   * The user enters www.nulc2012.com into their address bar using IE7 or IE8   * The user has `*.weber.edu` listed as a "trusted site" in IE security settings (the case for nearly all on-campus computers) When this happens, their browser will correctly transfer to the page `http://continue.weber.edu/nulc/index.php`, however the page is blank, returning only:               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">          <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type>           Is there any know solution to this problem? Or am I missing something completely? _Note: Tested websites do load correctly in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari_


Google Free Views and Crawling

We plan on giving our users 5 free article views before prompting them to buy a subscription. (for logged in or anonymous users). This will be a cookie-based security (we are all aware of the drawbacks!). Now, considering Google crawling our site. Can we tell in code "always show the full article if the agent is the "Google Crawler" or that would be cloaking? Since we give "5" free views, would that be OK?


Will duplicate international (i18n) content hinder SEO rankings?

Google clearly states that duplicate content within a single, or multiple, domains is not advised. This is understood, but I am not sure of any exceptions for sites with region-specific content that is often replicated across locales. For example, a site's `/en-us/about` page could be identical to `/en- uk/about`, whereas most likely `/en-ja/about` is unique. Are GYM smart enough to understand that the initial URL depth is a locale specifier? Is there any _robots.txt_ or header, etc, trickery that I should include to outline the site's international structure?


Empty Cookie based on IP address

Is there a way to empty a previous cookie based on source ip? I need this to be done because of loadbalancing issues. regards Geert


Case-specific mod rewrite on WordPress subdomain multisite

I have split a WordPress blog into multiple category-specific blogs using subdomains, as the topics in the original blog were too broad to be lumped together effectively. Posts were exported from the parent `www` blog and imported into the subject- specific subdomain blogs. I believe _.htaccess_ provides mod rewrite for all subdomains (including the original `www`) in a single _.htaccess_ file. I use _.htaccess_ to perform 301 redirect on post categories to the relevant post on the subdomain's blog e.g.:               RedirectMatch 301 ^/auto/(.*)$ http://auto.example.com/$1      The problem I have is that the category has been retained in the permalink structure in the subdomain blog, so that `www.example.com/auto/mercedes` is now `auto.example.com/auto/mercedes`. The 1st URL is redirect to the 2nd, but unfortunately, the 2nd URL is redirected to `auto.example.com/mercedes` using the same rewrite rule, which is not found, as the permalink on the subdomain's blog retains the parent category of auto. The solution would be to adjust the permalink structure in the subdomain's WP settings, so that the top level category does not duplicate the subdomain. My question would be: how do I then strip a section of the original (`www`) blog's post URL from the subdomain's URL when redirecting? e.g.: how do I redirect `www.example.com/auto/mercedes` to `auto.example.com/mercedes`? I'm assuming this would be a regular expression trick, which I am not great at. **Update** : I might have to use:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !auto.example.com$      In the default WordPress if loop in _.htaccess_ , and seperate my custom subdomain redirections into a second if loop section.


Why google doesn't index youtube videos in sitemap?

I've created a sitemap for youtube hosted videos in my website. you can find it here. http://www.informaincasa.it/wp-content/uploads/sitemap-video.xml I've also created a sitemap for videos hosted on blip.tv The first sitemap while webmasters tool says it has no error isn't indexed. The second one is. Do you know why this happens and what should I do?


Magento 1.5.1.0 Multi-Store

I am currently running version 1.5.1.0 of Magento and I would like to set up another store with the following:   1. Both stores using different domains   2. Shared shopping cart/checkout   3. Shared codebase I don't have ssh access. I have looked around and found a number of tutorials but they are for older versions or else require shell access. Could someone point me in the direction of a tutorial specifically for 1.5.1.0 or provide instructions for completing this?


Cache a resource across HTTP and HTTPS

Is there a way to specify that a resource should be cached when accessed over both HTTP and HTTPS? We have lots of static content that is initially served over HTTP and then re-served over SSL when the user tries to sign up or login, and it would be nice to cache that.


Why does Google think that pages load slow?

Looking into Google Webmaster Tools in the Site Performance section I see that > On average, pages in your site take 5.0 seconds to load. Specifically it takes about 5 second to load during last month. However when I personally look pages on my site it rarery takes longer than 1 second to load a page. How can I discover the reason why Google thinks that pages load slow? Does Google provide any useful info for that? Should I look into web-server logs, etc.? Should I tweak something in robots.txt to prevent indexing some pages or to change crawl speed?


Why don't we see websites hashing passwords before sending them?

(Note about the question title: by "we" I mean myself) Everytime I log on to any website, I have this thought that website asking me for my password and sending it back to the server is just basic security engineering. Why do all the websites send my plaintext password (at most over SSL) instead of hashing it with some javascript code first?


phpbb and filesystem storage

Can I save the images file on filesystem (no db) in phpbb?


Is this a good WordPress robots.txt configuration?

I am about to launch a new WordPress site and below is what I came up with for my _robots.txt_ file. Should I combine some of these directives with a wildcard or should I include them both ways? I know that some search engines don't read wildcards.               sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml          User-agent:  *     Disallow: */comments/     Disallow: */feed/     Disallow: */trackback/     Disallow: *?replytocom     Disallow: /*.css$     Disallow: /*.inc$     Disallow: /*.js$     Disallow: /*.php$     Disallow: /*/*.inc$     Disallow: /*/*.js$     Disallow: /*/*?s=*     Disallow: /*/cgi-bin/*     Disallow: /*/feed/     Disallow: /*/feed/*     Disallow: /*/trackback/     Disallow: /*/trackback/*     Disallow: /*/wp-*     Disallow: /*/xmlrpc.php     Disallow: /*?     disallow: /*?*     Disallow: /archives/     Disallow: /author     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /comments/     Disallow: /comments/feed/     Disallow: /feed/     Disallow: /index.php     Disallow: /login/     Disallow: /wp-*     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-content/     Disallow: /wp-content/cache/     Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/     Disallow: /wp-content/themes/     Disallow: /wp-includes/     Disallow: /wp-rss.php     Disallow: /wp-rss2.php     Disallow: /xmlrpc.php     Disallow: ?wptheme=     Disallow: /readme.html     Disallow: /license.txt     Allow: /wp-content/uploads          User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*     Disallow:     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot-Image     Disallow:     Allow: /wp-content/uploads/          User-agent: Adsbot-Google     Disallow:     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile     Disallow:     Allow: /          User-agent: duggmirror     Disallow: /          User-agent: ia_archiver     Disallow: /


Making headers readable on a multi colored background

So the client wants a multi-colored background (think 4 colors of paint splats randomly all over the page. Because of this the headers are a bit hard to read. I've currently got them set up as black text with some white drop shadow, but it's still pretty hard to read in IE. How can I make the headers legible regardless of what is behind them (it's a CMS so position on the page is liable to change regularly)?


Royalty free, Open Source Data

Does anyone know of a site that lists various open source data feeds or data stores? By this I do not mean OS database applications like MySQL or Postgre, but royalty free sources of DATA. For example, IMDB.com allows you to download their data for free, but it is proprietary and cannot be used for commercial purposes for less than $10k. It would be nice if there was a royalty free version of that somewhere. However I'm looking for any source of data in any industry--entertainment, auto, tech, etc.


Search Result Organization

I'm creating an AJAX live search on a website I'm working on. Users will select values from a few dropdowns and a list of products will be returned based on what they select. Some possible fields would be: color, model, make, etc. What type of organization of search results do users tend to find most useful? Is it better to lump them all together (alphabatized) or is it more useful to lump them together by make? In the past I've tended to group them by "make" but I'm not concerned that this will continually force some items with a make toward the end of the alphabet always to the bottom of the list. Any tips are greatly appreciated.


Please suggest Alternative to Microsoft HMC, an Automated Hosting Managment Solution for all Microsoft Products?

I am not really sure whether this is the right forum to put up this. But here it goes. I am a Hosting Controller and Automated Hosting Management solution provider for Microsoft Products and Services (Exchange, SharePoint, CRM, Unified Messaging etc). Currently I am using Microsoft HMC 4.0 as my main Hosting Solution along with some other solutions for Automated hosting management of Websites, 3rd Party Mail Service Providers, DNS Service Providers and Scripted Solution (Perl, Python, Cold-fusion support). Microsoft will end support for HMC soon enough and i am not really ready to upgrade to MCCS due to various issues discussed in the very same article. I need an All-In-One Hosting Automation and Management solution for Microsoft Services that must essentially support the following services:   1. **Long term business Support** (HMC 4.5 is the last version of this solution. Microsoft will support HMC 3.5 through July 12, 2011, and will support HMC 4.x through December 12, 2011.)   2. **Product Support for Latest Features** (Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010, CRM 2011, OCS 2010 (Lync 2010), Blackberry 4 and 5)   3. **All-IN-One Support for all Products and Services** (Spending on individual solutions is wastage of money for me)   4. **Legacy Microsoft Support** (Exchange 2007, CRM 4.0, Sharepoint WSS 3.0)   5. **Self Service sort of Control Panel** (For Clients and Resellers)   6. **Automatic Billing System** (Must be part of the complete solution)   7. **Migration of Exchange 2007 Existing Customers to Exchange 2010**. The bullets from 1 to 7 are my business's stringent requirements. Paying for multiple solutions is costly both in terms of management and support as well as licensing. I have been using a separate billing system solution that is not tightly integrated with HMC and i have to face issues from time to time due to it. I need to have a tightly integrated billing system with my hosting management solution. I need to provide my clients with a proper central control panel/dashboard/portal from where clients, resellers and myself can manage each product's provisioning and associated services, manage subscriptions and billing. I need long term support for the solution. I also have a strong requirement of upgrading (migrating) some of my existing users/organizations/mailboxes etc of Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. Please suggest an All-In-One Automated Hosting management solution that meets the above requirements at the moment. I have been looking a couple of hosting panels that support Microsoft products and meet most of the above requirements. But i cant just go for any one of any without seeking help from the community.


Adding description for words on your website

I am creating a website with a lot of programming language, and words that are related to programming and application development. Now I like the idea to have a tooltip on certain words, let's say a word like php. When someone rolls over the word a small popup appears with a small text explaining what it is. Stackoverflow uses the same when you roll over a tag. Is here an API that I can use to get the info on certain words, or should I create it myself.


Revenue through YouTube

Is there anyway I can generate revenue using YouTube `embed` tag on my site? Maybe some kind of AdSense integration to ads showing up in the videos?


SEO: Similar, but not duplicate, content across several subdomains

I have a website that allows users to find/submit tips for doing specific fitness activities. The site is structured as "[activity].example.com"   * example.com   * swimming.example.com   * lifting.example.com Each subdomain is meant to be a (partially) closed-off community specific to that activity. For example, the swimming subdomain is where all swimming tips are created and shared. However, some tips appear on all of the subdomains (for example, a "stretching" tip would most likely appear on all activity pages). The top tips may also be aggregated to the root domain. This has been happening quite a bit, and I'm wondering what the SEO implications are. One example of a site that has a similar setup is reddit. They have their site set up to 301-redirect "[subreddit].reddit.com" to "reddit.com/r/[subreddit]". Presumably this is for SEO purposes. Am I being hurt SEO-wise by having these subdomains? I.e. is Google seeing them as separate sites with duplicate content? Should I structure the site more like reddit with the sub-directory structure instead? I know questions related to this one have been answered, but those are more towards exact duplicate content. Thank you in advance for your help.


"Unable to review your site" - AdSense

Please reply to my question and then close it. Now My life is fully depend upon ad sense. Yesterday i have submitted my website for final review of my ad sense account. But today i received a message saying: * * * As mentioned in our welcome email, we conduct a second review of your AdSense application once AdSense code is placed on your site(s). As a result of this review, we have disapproved your account for the following violation(s): Issues: - **Unable to review your site** * * * Please help me to solve this problem. I am very worrying and tense about it. What is the reason for this message?


How to tell which URLs have fallen out of search engine index

I've had a few pages trimmed from google's indexed number on my sitemap in webmaster tools. How can I tell which pages have been dropped?


How do I transfter files to this SunOS server?

According to the admin of the webserver, I should be able to use Filezilla to transfer files to the server but I am getting an error. First: I'm able to connect to the remote server using X-Win32 ssh, from my Windows 7 machine:               SunOS server.edu 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220     System type is SUN4V with 65408 MB of memory.          server.edu(1):       Next, I set up Filezilla for transfering files sftp - using these directions I found on the web. However, this is what I get:               Status:    Connecting to server.edu:12345...     Response:    fzSftp started     Command:    open "gmcnulty@server.edu" 12345     Error:    Connection timed out     Error:    Could not connect to server     Status:    Waiting to retry...     Status:    Connecting to server.edu:12345...     Response:    fzSftp started     Command:    open "gmcnulty@server.edu" 12345     Error:    Connection timed out     Error:    Could not connect to server      Any point in the right direction would be very helpful.


Migrating to Prestashop to optimize SEO

We are redesigning the frontend of an ecommerce site coded by hand. The client hasn't expressed interest in changing the backend administration but requested us to implement SEO on the site. We consulted with a freelance consultant and strongly suggested for us to migrate to Prestashop to optimze the seo of the site. I'm reluctant since I think that through front-end coding the site can be optimzed for search engines. Another guy told us that if we migrate platform we would lose all the current positioning on search engines. What would be the best approach in this case?


How can I search DNS records by registrant or admin contact info, email address for example?

I'd like to search for all domain names administered by jon.doe@domain.com for example. Are there any search tools out there that allow such a search?


Unreachable robots.txt error

I am getting _Unreachable robots.txt error_ whenever I use fetch as Google. I know, on this site there is other queations related my issue. But I also use Google Page Speed test, site is working correctly than getting 91/100 score. how can I fix it?


Facebook Comments and page SEO

Facebook's recently launched commenting system for blogs loads comments in an iframe, instead of loading them inline. Since blog comments can often contribute significantly to the page's SEO, is it a good idea to use Facebook's system on my blog? Or, does Google recognize iframe content as a part of the page and treats it as such? (It's noteworthy that Disqus.com does not use iframes and loads all comments inline)


Google webmaster Verification failed

I have a site created by Ruby on Rails. I had successfully verified the site with Google Webmaster Tools some months ago. However, recently Webmaster Tools has been asking me to verify my site. I tried again to verify my site using Meta tags and HTML files, but now I cannot get it to successfully verify. The error message I get is: "Verification failed. The connection to your server timed out." Since then, Google hasn't been crawling my site's content - though Google still crawls my PDF contents on my site.


Can a Google Penalty affect other sites with same owner, and how not to be recognized as the owner

i have a website with some pretty good ranking and SEO that I don't want to hurt, I have an SEO consultant that is working on it and I know he doesn't do any black-hat stuff. Now I'm launching a new website and I want to try and do the off-page SEO for myself, or hire someone new that I didn't work with yet. I'm afraid that the new guy I hire will use black-hat techniques, spam or things like that, and get the new site penalized. It might even happen if I do the off-page SEO for myself. I might make a mistake , since it'll be my first time doing off-page SEO by myself. I read that if one website is penalized by Google, other sites may also be penalized if they belong to the same owner. As for how Google can recognize that they have the same owner I'm not sure, one idea is according to the Google Webmaster Tools account. Anyway, there might be also other factors that don't occur to me that might cause Google to decide the two websites are connected somehow. Does anyone know if this is true or has any experience with this? How can I make sure the two websites aren't considered connected by Google? And how do I make sure the new website doesn't hurt the old one in case the new SEO consultant uses blackhat techniques and the new site to be penalized?


where can I find the 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics

I believe there is a 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics, however I cannot find it and there is little to no documentation on this. Does this still exist in GA and, if so, what report shall I find it in?


How much percentage of total internet users are online at any given moment?

Also, how does this percentage change during the day? Is it different in developed countries than in developing countries?


Putting Together HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Hopefully this question isn't too broad… I am a competent iOS programmer and have some experience with Java (command- line tools). Over the last year or two I've dabbled into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Learning iOS and Java, I started with a book ( _Programming in Objective-C_ (Kochan)—it was my first language besides a tiny bit of C) and once I got the syntax down, I would just go to _the_ source of documentation and figure things out. I know the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript syntax, but I don't know how to put it all together into a "modern"/well-designed web page. I can do some some simple formatting, run some scripts, but the layout still looks like it was designed by a 90-year-old bank executive in a cheap suit. I don't see how to put the languages together into a webpage…Given static images, I would not be able to pull together a mockup of the SO site, for example. I know about `<img>` tags and basic CSS position, but it's just not coming together for me. I also find that what little "official" documentation (W3Schools) exists is rather shallow and does not do a good job of joining everything together…but that might just be because I'm not familiar with everything. Can anyone recommend any really good resources (web or print, preferably not video, as I'd like to go at my own pace) that can help me? * * * **Addendum:** Coming from a desktop platform, I'm used to things being where they are and having much more control over aspects, primarily UI layout but also data input methods and processing—iOS and Java have much richer libraries than JavaScript. How should I get around this mentality? Does anyone have any personal experience? **Update 1:** Thanks for the replies (This is more for the comments; Daveo's answer is rather helpful). However, I do want to say that it's not the actual design I need help with—it's converting the design into code, not only in mockup/layout form but also in actual usability.


What meta tag do you use to provide Google with a publication date?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How does Google recognize publish date of a post I read about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and some spotty documentation from Google, but I can't find an official resource. Thanks in advance.


I have found a fancy looking cubic jquery image slider for jquery mobile website here: http://m.jeep.com/en/mobile/vehicles/selector.html?app=bmo#&ui- state=dialog Now I want to use this slider in one of my project.But I didn't found any resource of this kind of slider for mobile website in online.Now I need to know if there are this kind of slider on the internet ? Or do you know any useful resource of image slider for mobile site (I didn't find any effective resource).


DNS NAmeserver Aname and cname records

I am inexperienced in the configuration of DNS and have an issue with dominan hosting set up. I have two domains 'www.mydomain1.com' and 'www.mydomain2.com', with mydomain2 pointed at the same place as mydomain1. The domains were passed to me recently by the person who previoulsy controlled them. I have an account with Fasthosts in the UK. When I accepted the domains I could not access the DNS settings and inquired with fasthosts as to why. The reply was: > The delegate hosting option for both domains were enabled and this is the > reason why you were unable to find the option to edit the advanced DNS > records. > > I have now disabled the delegate hosting option so you can now edit the > advanced DNS records for both domains in your account. When I log into the Fasthost control panel now I can access the DNS controls but both domains have no A record or Cname record set up. I am concerned that Fasthosts have blatted the previous Nameserver entries and set me up on theirs but not added any record. 'www.mydomain1.com' currently still works but 'www.mydomain2.com' does not find the site anymore. I am worried I will lose mydomain1 to as the DNS changes filter through the system. my webhosting is at 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mydomain1.com/' and this is where I want both domains to point. Any advice would be much appreciated. One thing which is confusing me is that because I am on a shared server I have to put 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mydomain1.com/' to get to my site rather than just 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'. The form on Fasthosts for the A name record only allows an IP to be entered - does it add the mydomain1.com/ onto the end itself? Thanks for any help given - I'm quite worried about this David


How to estimate what kind of server resources you will require at launch?

How can I go about/what is the best way of estimating what kind of server resources I will require at the launch of a new project. Let's say for instance I'd gathered 10k users email addresses that opted-in to be informed when we launch. I didn't really want to go for a cloud solution at the moment. Should I just get a reasonably-specced dedicated server and go from there, or should I be looking at services like Amazon EC2? Or should I start out with EC2 for the fully-flexible resources, then once things stabilize I'll be able to sort a fixed hosting deal that is adequate elsewhere? Sub-question: What's a good way of estimating what load a particular application will place on the server per user?


Tracking key words on Google Analytics

How can I find the key words that people are using to enter my site when they use Google's HTTPS search engine? I am getting "not provided" on my Google Analytics when they use HTTPS!


Hosted website building solution for a multilingual website

I am looking for a hosted website builder / toolkit (like **Jimdo** and **Weebly** ), which supports multilingual websites. I would like to create different language versions of my website. The detection of the user's language should be automatic (depending on its browser settings or IP address location). The only website builders which offer a multilingual feature and automatic language detection I have found so far, are **Edicy** and **Webnode**. **Jimdo** offers the creation of multilingual sites but no language detection. Are there any solutions which offer automatic language detection you would recommend?


Cufon text replacement and IE8 standards mode

I have a perculiar issue. In IE8 standards mode text replaced by `Cufon.Replace` ~~works roughly 50% of the time, the rest of the time~~ the DOM modifications are there (viewed through IE developer toolbar in IE8) but no text actually appears. Sometimes have to refresh the page a number of times to be able to recreate it; others it works first page load - this is the case for a site you have never visited. The Cufon.Replace isn't throwing an exception or producing any other issue. Googling hasn't helped - others mention issues in IE8, but this lack of text is permanent and not just a slow loading issue. **EDIT** : Interestingly wrapping the `Cufon.replace` in the `$(document).ready(function(){});` stopped it from ever working! Something in the DOM is to blame... I presume **EDIT 2** : Applying the Cufon.replace manually once the page has fully loaded works. This is strange. Is there a later event than ready?


Data on male/female online buying patterns

Looking for data on the buying pattern for males vs females online:   * Percent of transactions (with estimated count of total transactions)   * Percent of total dollar value (with estimated total in US-Dollars)   * Any additional information. If possible, within the US only; but additional information is a bonus.


Do search engines care about case sensitivity of HTML tags and JavaScript functions?

Which is better for SEO ? **HTML**   1. `<p id="hello"></p>`   2. `<p id="HELLO"></p>`   3. `<p id="Hello"></p>`   4. `<p id="hELLO"></p>` **JAVASCRIPT**   1. `function hello(){}`   2. `function HELLO(){}`   3. `function Hello(){}`   4. `function hELLO(){}`


Is there an easy way to do referrer based advertising?

This a bit of a weird question so please let me know if you need more information. For a side project I am working on I need to ability to generate advertising on a specific page based on a specified domain. I have looked a bit and haven't found anything that really fits this so I'm hoping someone here has a service like this or can push me in the correct direction. I'm not super interested in finding my own advertiser/rolling my own solution currently (not to say it wont happen in the future), looking for more of an out of the box solution. Clarification: The advertising on this page will be generated based upon the referral URL. So in other words instead of the advertising content being contextual to the page it is delivered on.. it is contextual to a domain/URL. TYIA


Which web standard definitions could be clearer and how?

Discussions of web standards frequently describe their official definitions as "impenetrable", "confusing" and "messy", almost as if this is self-evident. I can't remember having seen a web specification praised for it's clarity. I'm interested whether the community thinks this is justified. Which web standard specs have you had cause to refer to and have found inaccessibly defined or written? How would you improve them? Or, which have you found to be clear and helpful? * * * Fitting with the theme: Answers SHOULD cover one specification only. Constructive criticism, linking to the spec in question and quoting examples are RECOMMENDED.


HTML heading and html special characters

I'm trying to edit a index.html file but in my heading my html special character code is not showing on the screen. Example:
Souscrire à infolettre
      This should display as "`Souscrire à infolettre`" but the `à` isn't showing.


404 code/header for search engines, on removed user content?

I just got an email, from a former user on my website He was complaining that Google still shows the contact page he created on my site, even though he deleted it a month ago This is the first time in many years anyone requests this I told him, that it's almost entirely up to Google what content it wants to keep/show and for how long. If it's deleted on the site, I can't do much, other than request a re-visit from the googlebot The user-page already now says something like "Not found. The user has removed the content" TL;DR: But the question is: Should I generally add a 404 header (or other) for dynamic user content that has been removed from the site? Or could this hurt the site (SEO)?


Display Call To Action bar on page load

I am using the following code to load the bar on click but I can't figure our how to load it on page load automatically.                     Basically I am trying to load a the message when user enters my website and I will be inserting it via Google Tag Manager. Below is a page where I found the code: Creative Tag Manager – Ads, Promotions, and Visitor Messaging -Lunametrics


Can HTML sitemaps easily be created from XML sitemaps?

I would like to create an HTML sitemap from a .xml file and was wondering if this could be done?


How to use Schema.org for Adverts on a website - WPAdBlock

I'm trying to use schema.org to indicate advertisements on my website. I'm concerned that putting adverts within the content of a blog page will hurt my SEO and I'm hoping using schema might help make things clear to search engines. This is what I have so far, an image with a link.

         * is the above schema I'm using correct?   * should I rather be inserting these adverts with javascript or jquery rather than just html? I am not using an ad network these are custom ads.


Facebook thinks my site may be unsafe!

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Website falsely blocked because of spam. Does anyone know how we should > proceed? Whenever anybody clicks on a link that I've posted on any Facebook Page (including my page http://www.facebook.com/GalaxyS4.info) to my website (http://www.galaxy-s4.info/) they get directed to an warning message which reads: > Facebook thinks this site may be unsafe. If you're not familiar with it, > please provide feedback by marking it as spam (you'll be brought back to > Facebook) Any idea why this is happening? Μy site is safe and not a spam site! I've checked with Google Webmaster tools - no issues or malware. I tried to contact facebook to resolve this issue but no lack until now. **Can anyone suggest what to do?**


IP blocked because: (smtpauth) Failed SMTP AUTH login from - can someone explain?

Today I had a few users blocked in our server firewall because of: (smtpauth) Failed SMTP AUTH login from Can someone explain the reason? What does it exactly mean? Could someone be using the our website to access SMTP for spamming purpose? UPDATE: Server info: Centos OS with CPanel and WHM. However no one has access to either. Taking a look at the logs it looks like someone repetitively attempted to login with a known existent user/pass.


Ajax crawling : snapshot page dissimilar with user page

For ajax-crawling purpose I make snapshots pages. My problem is user view pages and snapshot pages are dissimilar (tags `h1`, `h2`...). Example:   * user view page: `http://www.meomap.net/#!/place/1`   * snapshots page: `http://www.meomap.net/?_escaped_fragment_=/place/1` My question is that it is bad or no problem for SEO?


Any free/affordable alternatives to Polldaddy?

I'm looking for a free/cheap embeddable poll that I can just stuff in an iframe - the page I've been tasked to maintain has been created in iWeb, which does not generate anything but the final markup of the page. Polldaddy seems nice, but if you get over 100 responses in a month you're instantly in the $200/year bracket. Are there any services that are free/cheaper that will do the same basic thing? What about software I can host myself? I'm willing to toss up a PHP script so long as I can embed it in iWeb's iframe.


Storing credit card details

I need to store credit card numbers for recurring billing through our 3rd party merchant. Are there any standards I need to adhere to regarding the storage of the details? We've been accepting credit cards for years but we used to discard their details as soon as we were done with them. Our customers have requested that we store their details so they don't have to manually pay their subscription fee each month. Moving to PayPal to utilise their subscriptions is not an option. We have to store them, and I need to make sure the storage is safe! We utlise MSSQL 2005 for our data, and everything is already SSL'd.


Will my SEO be hurt by using a "/" to seperate two different ways of reffering to the same thing?

I am building a site that lets people Trade, Buy and Sell Magic the Gathering cards ( a collectable card game) and I'm struggling to fit my main Index pages Title in a manner that will not get concatenated in the results view. So generally the Magic the Gathering name is shortened to "MTG" and I want to use both of those keywords in my title. If I go with a title of: **Trade, Buy & Sell Magic The Gathering/MTG Cards |MTG PeerTrader** will I be hurting myself in the conjoining of the "Gathering/MTG" keywords? I started out with: **Trade, Buy & Sell Magic The Gathering / MTG Cards | MTG PeerTrader** but it is just too long :( Thank you in advance!


How to deal with short-urls that get indexed too in Google?

One of my projects got a major pagerank hit. We debugged to the depths. And there are so many variables, I'm not gonna get into that. While trying to desperately restore our pagerank, I have debugged everything that I possible could. And today I found out, that **Google has indexed our short-urls**. (Under **short-urls** I mean like: **example.com/post-12-foo-foo-foo-foo-foo- very-lenghty-url** and short it to **exl.to/p12** ) I have tried to put the short-url in the webmasters tools to deal with it, but I couldn't then. Because it was URL without any hosting behind it, just there for making URLS short to copy. It redirects only. But now, I see there is a way to do with CNAME, straight from the domain keeper. **Google has indexed everything, under that URL with the content.** While I just recently added canonical-tag to show, how these pages should look like. So that means duplicated content? Which is bad right? **So, what is the method for this short-urls against double contenting?** There is no robots.txt, so I cannot even block it. But how else to tell google, its the same site, don't index under these URL's and please, return my pagerank?


How to redirect a subdomain to the main domain so I can use an SSL certificate?

I have an apache server hosting with one IP address hosting a www and a 'sub' domain using `<virtualhost>`. That worked fine until I needed an EV certificate which works on only 1 domain. It can't be used until I merge these two domains. The subdomain is a directory of the www domain. I can remove the subdomain by removing the appropriate `<virtualhost>` section. How do I redirect traffic from sub.domain.com to `www.domain.com/subdir`?


Site indexed on temporary domain before site went live

I made a careless mistake with one of my sites. While developing it I put it on some temporary domain of mine and thought I would remove it after couple of days. That is why I did not included any robots.txt. Then due to some problems I completely forgot about it and did not do anything for 3 weeks. Now the site is completed and when I checked, google indexed all of its pages on my old domain. Now I need to launch the site with the same content and I fear Google might think of the actual website as spam. What should I do to rectify it? I cannot wait for it to de-index. I know it was stupid and will take care of it in future. But for such situations in future, what things I should keep in mind?


Meta description or title for post contents

I have a site that has posts without titles. You can think of them as being a lot like Twitter tweets. Should I put the post contents in the `<title>` tag or the meta description tag? If I put the post contents in one of the tags what should I put in the other? My challenge is that we have very short amounts of content with no titles. I want to avoid having too many duplicate titles or descriptions. We have things like user name, full name, date, etc.


How to promote a new social network?

I'm developing social network scripts for clients and this question is often asked by them after the script is released. Beside existing big social networks like `www.facebook.com` (USA), `www.nerofix.com` (Europe) and `www.vkontakte.com` (Russia), how would you promote a new network and where (+ how) to advertise?


To <p> or not to <p>?

I recently had a debate with a colleague who claimed that a `<div>` tag should be used over a `<p>` tag when formatting paragraphs. The case against the use of `<p>` is that it produces irregular spacing across browsers and it is likely to become obsolete like the `<b>` tag. Is this opinion of the `<p>` tag shared by the community?


How to explain XSS to common web owner/user?

How would you explain cross-site scripting vulnerability to a non-programmer (common web user)?


Which hosted chat solutions offer the following?

I am looking for a chat room solution similar to the one on StackExchange to facilitate more responsive communication between the contributors on Open- Org.com. My criteria are the following:   * No Flash (this rules out more than half)   * Full history (meaning that it is possible to access all previous conversation for future reference.   * Very customizable   * No ugly IRC stuff filling up the chat view (I do not want to see who joined an who left etc.)   * No private conversations possible (this is just not in the spirit of Open-org.com)   * A hosted solution with a reasonable price. These criteria are so different from this question, so this is not a duplicate question. The service which matches this the closest is Chatroll.com. However, at 199$ per month their prices are outrageous.


What is the 'most common' width and height that websites are being designed for these days?

I'm working on a group project and trying to get my colleagues to submit a drawing regarding their vision for an online application; this application will be viewed through a PC. Although I suspect there is not an industry standard, I am certatin that there must be common approaches for sites with fixed-width layouts. I need to know the most common sense of proportions in the industry. We are going to keep this prototype simple, and therefore will not be detecting browsers, screen widths etc. So, I figured I would ask this in a simple way with the hope of getting a simple answer: **What is the 'most common' width and height that webpages are being designed for most recently.** It would be very helpful if I could site a source when I tell my coleagues why I chose a specific sense of proportions for them to base their drawings on. Please note how I asked this question:   * I am not asking for the most common screen resolutions.    * I am not asking for the most common browsers. I want to know what dimensions most websites are opting for in regard to fixed-size layouts. I know that people normally scroll and therefore height might not be part of a ~'standard'; in that case, I will settle for the most common width.


Would a 403 page, a blank page and a page redirect be indexed by search robots?

I am wondering if a `disallow` directive needs to be issued to robots on pages that will generate:   1. a 403 forbidden error;   2. a blank page, or;   3. a page redirect (to log in page for example). Would not doing so have any impact on SEO of the site?


RSS Filter and Compile

Does anyone know of a good way to compile say 20 RSS feeds and generate top news stories out of it? The idea is that we want to have a section on our wordpress site that pulls in feeds from many sources, but I want the best and most relevant articles showing up. I guess it would kind of be a similar concept to Google News.


What is the default behavior of Cache-Control

If no `private` nor `public` were defined in the cache-control, e.g.                Cache-Control: max-age=31461276      What is the expected behavior?


Get reports in Google Analytics for smart phones only (not tablets)?

I'm trying to use Google Analytics to see how mobile phone browsers are performing on my site compared to users with larger displays. If I click the 'mobile' tab I can see goal and ecommerce performance but this includes tablets. How can I exclude tablets from my mobile reporting?


Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if i have hidden iframes?

As a praxis, all external content on our site is put in iframes to lower the risks of any external parties injecting stuff to our users. We also do it to make sure our content shows up before banners, to make the site feel quicker. We now have an external script running which we want to put in an iframe, but it does not have any visible content to go with it so I want to put css "visibility: hidden;" on the iframe. I read in a forum somewhere that search engines will lower the rank of a page, or even drop the page, if a iframe has "the minimal size of 1x1px". Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if I have a hidden (or 1px big) iframe?


Designing for mobile site?

I need to design a mobile site for phones and tablet, should I design for retina and scale down or the opposite? Or should I even design for retina? Thanks


How can I obtain past webmaster tools warnings/manual actions on a site with a previous site owner?

I have purchased a legacy domain which was hit by Panda/Penguin in 2011/2012 for paid link networks. When I redirected my old site to the new domain I purchased, organic traffic and rankings immediately and significantly declined. I have gone through the link profile of the legacy domain and disavowed all sketchy/spam paid links. I suspect that a Panda/Penguin penalty from 2011/2012 has been recently reactivated or reinstated because of the site move. Is there a way for me to view past webmaster tools manual actions / penalties from a previous site owner? With the new way google handles reconsideration requests...if you do not have a current manual action, you CANNOT file a reconsideration request.


Formatting HTML lists using CSS

I'm trying to recreate list in HTML which has clauses and subclauses like this:               1. Main Clause       (a) Sub clause       (b) Sub clause     2. Another main clause       (a) Sub clause      The problems I'm running into are:   1. If I use the existing HTML elements (ol and li) there doesn't seem to be a list style for (a) - I can have a. b. c. or A. B. C. but not (a) (b) (c).   2. If I don't use the existing HTML elements and start using span tags, then if a subclause runs beyond the end of the line it appears underneath the clause number, rather than being indented. Like so:               (a) Very long subclause     which goes over one line      when what I really want is the behaviour from lists, which is:               (a) Very long subclause         which goes over one line      Is there any way to get round these two problems at the same time? I'd prefer to use semantic HTML and CSS for styling, but having the clauses spaced correctly is more important than doing things 'the right way'. I may need subsubclauses at some point (i.e. (i), (ii) etc.), so I can't assume that (a) will be the maximum clause depth.


Content Sliders (Nivo Slider) and SEO

With sliders like "nivo slider" it slices the image up into segments to perform its transitions. This means you cannot put "real" text over the top like you can with other basic transition sliders (e.g. jQuery Cycle) (e.g. in jQuery cycle you could do something like this)

 here is some text we can postion over the top of our slide that will move as the slide moves

      Now if you have good SEO keywords in your slider (which maybe at the top of the page). You have to slice the text into the main image with nivo and you lose them keywords. Would putting the same information in the title / alt tag work just as well? Or is it time to drop Nivo and go back to a slider you can position text over?


Merged Contents From Other Sites - SEO Effect

I am working on an web app, part of which grab contents from other several sites and show them in a merged way (partial info). Those sites are already dynamic and thus it will be super dynamic/changeable in every minutes. I was wondering to know, whether I can have seo benefits in this way, (as these are already exists in those external sites)? If doing some anything can help to get SEO on these pages, can you please explain how to achieve a decent SEO effect for these pages? > Just to clarify one mis-understanding, I am not stealing the contents from > other sites.I am using those site's api access to do this and its very much > allowed. My main intention is to merge only the CLOSELY RELATED items into > one place from several sites(using their api, of course), which will > facilitate visitors to see them all in one place and save time from explore > each sites separately. Instead using full contents, I am showing partial, so > that, if a user get interested, then they can explore the full content page > from their real owner sites and I get the credit for affiliation. Hope this > make sense...


How to use google ecommerce to track the registrations?

I am using the below code for tracking the registrations               var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'website_name']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview'],);       _gaq.push(['_addTrans',         '12121212',                    'title',           '1.00',                  '',                    '',                       '',                '',              ''                    ]);       _gaq.push(['_addItem',         '12121212',                    'title',         'JOb App',                 'Email',           '1.00',                  '1'                      ]);       _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']); //submits transaction to the Analytics servers            (function() {        ...                })();         }       But my confusion is, _trackPageview is having no value. Is it OK to have NO value ? It is not reporting anything in Google analytics. Thanks


Alertpay payment: how come customers can change shipping address in the end?

I've the following issue with the payment service Alertpay.com I've a drupal-based website, and I forward customers to Alertpay to insert their credit card information. The issue is that Alertpay offers an option to change shipping address. I really don't like this, because each country has a different shipping rate (included in the total I pass to Alertpay). Consequently a customer could set a country in my website, pay a low shipping rate, and then change the shipping address in Alert Pay without updating the shipping costs. ps. There is also a field shipping_costs in AlertPay parameters, but still Alertpay provides an option to change shipping country. I don't get why, it is not logical. thanks


Can Google Analytics cause site stability problems under Windows 2000?

Recently we added the code for Google Analytics to our web site. This code was added to a header.asp root include file that is used in all pages of our entire site. Since this was added we began to see different behaviors of our site and in some instances one of the servers was found to not serve web pages for nearly 12 hours (we have a load balanced farm obviously). Are there any issues with the GA piece in an older Windows 2000 IIS environment? Would the placement of the JavaScript code in the header root include file contribute to this issue?


Where do blogs get their pictures?

I see a lot of blogs that are full of picture galleries, showing celebrities for example, and I wonder how they get all these pictures. Do most blogs just take pictures from Google Images? Or is there another way they get these pictures? What interests me the most is what the legal implications are.


Problem with Google indexing URLs in my XML SiteMap

My XML sitemap has a lot of links - for example: > nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=1   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=2   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=3   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=4   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=5 I've added my sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools (my site map -> www.nanoc.gigfa.com/sitemap.php), but Google has only added this page - nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=1 - from 171 pages. This is the Google Tools result when i submit my sitemap:                   Sitemap     Status  Type    Downloaded  URLs submitted  URLs in web index     /sitemap.php        OK  Sitemap     Sep 2, 2011     171             1      Why has Google added only 1 page in web index?


Big Gorilla Company Compared to Highly Successful Small Company

I am a big fan of 37Signals, and out of curiosity wanted to see the difference between their CRM app (Highrise) and SalesForce's app, in terms of google search rankings and general visitation. Compete shows that 37signals highrisehq.com has 78K users compared to SalesForce's 1.2ML users, but highrisehq.com has a blog read by 100K users and SalesForce does not. More to the point, I get that SalesForce is a Billion dollar company and 37S is not, but I don't know of any content on SalesForce that people regularly go to. Or another way, it seems as though 37Signals never pays for advertisers and SalesForce only does paid advertising. **The question is: what is the best way to compete (i.e. build traffic) against larger companies in addition to building a loyal customer base as 37S has.**


Google Webmaster tools showing sitemap URL's indexed but not showing up in search results

I have submitted simple text sitemap to Google Webmaster tools and after few days it was crawled, after few more most links were indexed according to GWT but it is not showing those links in google. If I do this search (site:domain.com) I only get few url's instead of a few hundred. Is there a delay between GWT showing that pages are indexed and those pages showing up in search results?


How to block entire IPs of a VPN server by IP

I have website that identifies users only by their IPs. That makes it very difficult to keep it secure against unwanted users/attackers. They can simply change their IP by using VPN services that provides them numerous variety of IPs. So what I want is to not just blocking one IP but entire IPs under subnets of a VPN service, once attacker used one of them.


Why blogger puts BR tags only when content served via RSS feed?

I have a problem with using my new blog RSS feed. I wrote a post (the first one) with some code examples formatted by SyntaxHighlighter. To paste a code sample I'm switching from WYSIWYG to HTML view and put the code inside _pre_ tag like this (don't worry, h4 tag was opened a line above the screenshot area): ![formatting code example on the blog](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wIPO4.png) The problem is that such _pre_ tag, when later accessed via RSS feed contains _br_ tags instead of new line characters. Below is screenshot of the adequate RSS source code: ![RSS source code with unwanted BRs](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2PnwZ.png) What's most important **when accessed via www, the post html is formatted fine, no _brs_ inside _pre_**. I verified that by downloading the blog post with wget. So I believe this isn't SyntaxHighlighter issue nor any 'new line' formatting on blog post save. This is a real problem as I want aggregate my blog on employers blog and all formatting of code examples is broken because of that. The base question is: how to get rid of those unwanted _brs_ served via RSS? What's strangest friend of mine also uses blogger for such aggregation and he has no such issue. I checked his RSS feed and there are no _brs_ inside _pre_ tags. We also compared settings of our blogs. However we have found no clue.   * The blog post   * RSS for the blog (just check source and search for string: pre class="brush)   * Mentioned friend's blog Last thing: I see content served from RSS is now also html encoded. If I remember well, it wasn't previously. **UPDATE:** I found no solution for this issue nor help anywhere. So I've written short PHP script to filter the feed source. Someone may find it useful so here it is:               <?php     $url = 'http://blog.tamashumi.com/feeds/posts/default';     $pre_pattern = '/(\<pre.*?"\>)(.*?)(\<\/pre\>)/';     $br_pattern = '/\<br \/\>/';          function br2nl($match) {         global $br_pattern;         $nobrs = preg_replace($br_pattern, "\n", $match[2]);         return "$match[1]$nobrs$match[3]";     }          $content = file_get_contents($url);     $content = preg_replace_callback($pre_pattern, 'br2nl', $content);          header('Content-type: application/atom+xml');     echo preg_replace($br_pattern, "<br/>\n", $content); // adding NLs     ?>      A result of filtered feed can be obtained under the URL. On the first look it doesn't differ, the source does though. Last thing to mention. I found that blogger had some time ago 'convert line breaks' flag among configuration settings. It's replaced now by new post-level settings: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/j4Ffs.png) I believe that my friends blog works as expected because it had the 'convert line breaks' flag set before it disappeared from the configuration panel and probably as a global setting it has influence also on the RSS. Those new post- level settings doesn't affect RSS feed anyhow. Well, that's only an assumption but I have found no other clue for this inconsistency...


Tracking untagged adwords visits in Google Analytics

In the event an AdWords campaign doesn't tag its ads, is there any way to identify the traffic (I know I won't get the low-level type of reporting available through properly tagged campaigns, I just want to get a general idea). For instance, is there any way to narrow it down by Source / Medium (would it appear as Google / Organic, Google / Referral, or Direct / None)?


Google sitemap access error, something to do with .htaccess redirect from http://www. to http://

I recently updated the htaccess of my site to redirect from `http://www.` to `http://`. It all works fine but now I've made some changes to my site and uploaded a new sitemap.xml to google webmaster. I'm getting the following message: > "We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit.   >  **General HTTP error: Domain name not found** " I made the sitemap using www.xml-sitemaps.com, any idea how I might resolve this? * * * The domain is: http://lightandspace.co.uk The sitemap is: http://lightandspace.co.uk/sitemap.xml The .htaccess is:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on     rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.lightandspace.co.uk [nc]     rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://lightandspace.co.uk$1 [r=301,nc]


SEO optimization when using same content across different TLDs

If I have two sites with almost the same content at example.com and example.co.uk but each is designed to take orders from the appropriate respective geographic location (i.e. .com from the USA and .co.uk from the UK) how does Google handle this in terms of assigning rank? Do I lose pagerank by having duplicate content across the same domain name on different TLDs? How can I limit SEO damage, if any? I note there are already answers to other questions that offer rel="canonical" as a solution but, in the case outlined, I would not want to pass pagerank from one site to the other but keep the same pagerank (as far as possible) for both and have Google serve up the appropriate site for the region the user is searching from (or for). My priority is not losing pagerank. I observe that it is quite common for large multinationals to have multiple sites across international domains but in most cases they seem to have different content. Perhaps this a deliberate SEO choice as well as practical? In my case, the product of the websites is web hosting and the data centres are located in each respective country as well as each site using local currency for orders so it is important to have this localisation, but the products on both sites are essentially the same so the product info on each site does not differ.


How can I make a good favicon?

I have a 16x16 PNG that I want to use for my favicon. It works fine in modern browsers, but I need a favicon.ico file for older ones. The problem is that either the ICO format doesn't support semi-transaprency, which my favicon uses, or the converters I've found online don't support it. Which is it? If the format supports it, how can I convert a PNG to an ICO with semi-transparency?


How long does it take for URL Parameters changes to take effect on Google Webmaster Tools?

Google was showing up pages with affiliate ID parameter in the search results. After some research on how to disallow this, I came across URL parameters in Webmaster tools. I set the parameters for ?a_aid= to Representative URL/No, doesn't affect page content. It's been two weeks since I made the change but Google still shows these results and in Webmaster Tools in the "Effect" column it still shows "None." How long should I wait for the changes to take effect?


How can I extend my google appengine application to run a windows executable?

I've got a simple webapp running on Google App Engine (python). I want to extend the functionality of my my webapp and this requires running a Windows executable on a user uploaded JPG file. This cannot be done on App Engine. Thoughts I've had are to stick the executable on a server somewhere, figure out how to put a python wrapper around it and dial into it with appengine when I need to. I've only been exposed to relatively simple App Engine environment and only know python so I was wondering if someone could suggest some ideas as to the best (and quickest) way to do this?