zlib compression issues

I'm having some issues running zlib compression on my site .. Firstly if I enable zlib compression in .htaccess using: `php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler` then I receive thousands of lines of the following error: > PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in > Unknown on line 0 I have checked all files used for whitespace and any other characters that shouldn't be there with a hex editor but I could not get that error to subside with zlib turned on in .htaccess. Therefore I have tried to turn zlib compression on in the php.ini file using:               zlib.output_compression "1"     zlib.output_compression_level "1"      However I'm now told by compression checkers that I have no compression turned on so it doesn't appear to be in the correct format?


As a beginner, I would like to know which should be the markup language to startup with

I am a beginner in Web Designing. For sure a CMS like Joomla (Joomla 3.1, now) is very useful for one who doesn't care about coding. But... I know for sure that the ability of coding really helps a lot in the production of stunning websites. And I wish to produce magnificent Sites, only. I measured my forces by producing a first Site, namely A Site for the free tuition of Computer Matters, using Joomla 2.5 This Site is still under development. I learned, by attending Lynda movies, that XHTML.1 is preferable, when compared with HTML 4.1 Now, my questions are: Would it be preferable to start with HTML5? I don't think so. Is it true that HTML5 works badly with certain browser like Explorer?...and not so well in any case? I would do really appreciate a Master's advice. Tks Bruno


Domain name at GoDaddy in not being linked to site hosted at Webhostingpad?

I just purchased the domain name at GoDaddy and I wanted to link it to my WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM hosting account. This is what I set in my nameservers: Nameservers: (Last update 11/23/2011) NS1.WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM NS2.WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MPbaA.png) but formatron.net still not being linked to my site at WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM. Am I doing something wrong?


Short keyword-only HTML Title or Long Titles - to rank better

I would like to know if **long html titles should be used** for pages instead of _google adwords keyword tool based_ **short titles** - for SEO / Ranking purposes? I feel that it is a **mistake** to use short html titles made up of 2-3 words **strictly based on google adwords keyword tool**. I have tried using short ones based on what the adwords keyword tool suggested, but **that has served me no purpose** as I cannot see my website pages anywhere in the search results. Please correct me, if wrong.


Are send to a friend features in websites obselete?

Often I am asked to create send to a friend forms for websites where a user can enter a few of their friends email addresses to which a URL is forwarded via email. My question is now that we have so many like buttons for services such as Facebook and Twitter are these forms even necessary any more? Do people even still fill them in in your experience? I ask as I generally tend to avoid creating them due to their propensity to get hammered by spammers attempting to re-purpose them for nefarious ends. Also are there any tips to help mitigate the risk when using PHP? For example could tracking and rate limiting IP addresses be a good approach? Any other ideas in this direction? I am totally against any form of captcha and hate websites that use them. Currently I am using a combination of PHPMailer and SwiftMailer across various projects for the actual sending of the mail.


HTTP response for deleted or disabled items on ecommerce store

What HTTP response should you send when an item/category on your ecommerce site has been disabled or deleted? 410 looks correct for deleted products but not sure about something that has been disabled temporarily


How long can I purchase a expired domain name?

I am currently interested in a domain name. Its whois information are > Updated Date: 10-jan-2012 > > Creation Date: 1-dec-2010 > > Expiration Date: 1-dec-2011 How long I still need to wait to purchase this domain name freely as it is a unregistered domain name? What's the 'updated date'? What's the usual steps for an expired domain name?


Where can I find the most up-to-date information on my domain's name servers?

I just switched registrars for a bunch of domains and the new registrar didn't copy over my existing name servers. Now all my pages appear as "parked" domains when you visit them. I've gone in and updated all of the name servers with my new registrar, back to their old values, but I want to make sure those changes have taken affect. I know I need to wait for ISPs to update their caches once the name servers change back, but I was wondering if there was some central ICANN database I could check to make sure they were updated properly. Thanks!


How can I tell if someone is logged into a google account?

At this point I don't want to interface w/ google account, I just would like to know if they are logged in to a google account or not, and then serve slightly different links if they are|aren't. I'm using PHP and strict (where possible) HTML 4.


How can I get an "Official site" banner/area on Bing?

If I search for a product name on Bing, for example "paint.net", the first result is something that looks like an advertising area, but it's called "Official Site".   How is it possible to get something like that for my own products?


I bought a WordPress theme from a person claiming to hold a developer license, but, later I found that he didn't have the developer license. He had purchased it as a basic license. Can this impact my theme in terms of licensing issues? What if the theme maker finds this? Is there a way to get caught? I know this is a common practice on the web, but wanted to make sure that i am using the right things on my site.


SEO consideration for duplicate sites

I am building a brochure-ware website for a company that sells products all across the world. They need the site to ask the user what region they are in before using the site; there are 5 regions. This is because there are different products offered to different regions and each region may or may not want to customize their own content. However, at launch and likely forever, most of the pages will be the exact same minus what is listed in the footer and in the product selection menu. _My question is how should I structure the sitemap for this site for best SEO?_ Should I be concerned with duplicate content penalties and/or cannibalizing the site's presence on the SERP? Some considerations:   * The client wants to be able to print links directly to regional specific content bypassing any prompt for the user to select a region (to ensure they land on the target page).    * The client cannot have a 'default' region so the user must have a region specified   * "Clean" urls are important, but there is wiggle room   * The client does not want each region to have its own domain   * There will be a link on the page to allow users to specify a different region   * The client is not concerned with localization ...at this time   * Some products are available in multiple regions A quick list of options I am considering:   1. **www.site.com/region/page**   2. **region.site.com/page**   3. **www.site.com/page?region** (no cookie, pages require the parameter. If visited without; the user must select a region)   4. **www.site.com/page** (using cookie and a splash screen if needed; could pass parameter in to set the region for direct linking) Thanks in advance for your advice.


Are mailto: links practically deprecated?

I was thinking...   1. Mailto: links are handled by standalone email clients only.   2. Most users nowadays use webmail (like GMail).   3. Webmail can't handle mailto: links.   4. When a webmail user clicks a mailto: link, he gets either a confusing message about no email client installed, or the link opening in an email client he doesn't use.   5. Anyone can copy and paste an email address, considering the addresses don't always come in a mailto:. Ergo, mailto: links are harmful and deprecated? Should I not use them when I need to display an email address?


Change of domain - SEO backlink inheritance

I've just built a new site and switched to a new domain. The previous domain had good SEO performance and had hundreds of quality backlinks - I set up a 301 redirect for any requests to the old domain name, and I assumed that the new domain would inherit the previous domain's backlinks. It's still early days yet but am I right in thinking this? If i check yahoo site explorer or google's webmaster tools, i don't see any of the backlinks including those which pointed to the old domain.


How do I host .cur image cursor files?

I'm using a `.cur` file as an image cursor. I uploaded it to the only image host that I could find that accepts `.cur` files, but lately it doesn't properly load the cursor anymore. My webhost now doesn't accept `.cur` files. I converted it to `.png` but those won't show in IE Basically I'm looking for a way to host/upload a `.cur` file.


Replacing url parameters tool usage with canonical / robots.txt to avoid crawl time

For a long time I've been getting `Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs` warnings, which I know don't necessarily indicate there is a problem, but I am trying to reduce the amount of links that are crawlable by Google to help him focus on what's more important. I'm thinking of changing a URL Parameter settings with a canonical link. I have filter parameters which I've set as `Narrows` and `Specifies` in WMT URL Parameters: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3Zw0e.png)   These internal filter pages have value, but bringing the user to the main page without any filters is almost good enough, and I think this is a trade off I should make considering I have too many pages compared to my reputation, thus getting those warning messages. Two options I'm thinking of:   1. Adding a meta canonical tag for urls with a filter parameters selected, to the page without the narrowing / specification of these filters.   2. Adding robots.txt to avoid crawling of those pages. (this will not waste the crawler's time trying to find the canonical meta tag, but will throw away the current link power these pages have to the trash, instead of passing it on the the page without any filter selected). Would you recommend any of these?


Why use underscores in URLs with UTMs?

Back in the day (2005), Matt Cutts said "use dashes, not underscores" in URLs. But that was before search engines got smart, and now it seems it doesn't really matter what you use in canonical URLs. But what about URLs with UTMs? **How can dashes vs. underscores help us understand traffic in Google Analytics?** B2C published a blog post in September 2013 analyzing the different ways that different companies use UTMs in email marketing materials. At the end of the Gilt City email, the author says: > An underscore should be used in “san-francisco” part of utm_campaign. This > tells us it is one word and separates it from the other information. When the author gets to the Zillow email, he mentions: > Separating different pieces of information by a dash (“-”) helps to parse > them easily in analytics tools. I'm modestly savvy with Google Analytics, and I'm having trouble seeing the advantage of using an underscore to link compound phrases such as `promoted link`, `sponsored story`, `sidebar ad` or other multi-word phrases that I might choose to regularly use in my company's UTM schema. Is there an advantage in Google Analytics to linking these words one way or the other?


Building domain authority for rich snippets

I recently added breadcrumb and product rich snippets for my site but they are not being displayed in Google's returned search results. My other sites seem to be fine but my eCommerce site's rich snippets just aren't getting picked up. According to my research the site needs more authority. Does anyone have any experience with this, or any idea on how to build "rich snippet authority"?


how to host 2 domains in 1 tomcat instance

I have 2 domains which point to my virtual server. The domains are accessible using different context paths like below:   * domain1.com:8080/1stapp   * domain1.com:8080/2ndapp How should I configure Tomcat so that I can access my domains like below:   * domain1:com:8080   * domain2:com:8080


IIS 7.5 and authenticating client certificates

I am trying to understand if the functionality I am seeing is how client certs and SSL is supposed to work, or if I've done something wrong. I have a site running under IIS 7.5 that is using a cert obtained from my company's internal certificate server. I have set the binding for the cert, and required client certs through the IIS UI. When I navigate to the site it prompts me for the certificate before I proceed and requires it as expected. Here is the question, I was told that part of the authentication done by the server was that the client certificate had to be issued from within the same PKI infrastructure. For example a cert issued from the same server as the SSL should work, but a cert issued by say Verisign would not be accepted. That does not seem to be the case, it appears that the server will accept and client certificate as long the as CA that issued it is listed as a Trusted Root on the server. Is that correct? Is there a simple setting I can change to alter that? Since I'm issuing the certificates from my own server I could create a custom certificate validation along the way to validate things further but I was wondering if I am missing something simple or not and I haven't yet found any articles that explain what the server does to validate the client certificate.


Google failing to recognize authoritive website?

I have a situation that I do not fully understand, related to syndicated content. My site - where the original version of my articles is being published, is being seen by Google not as the _original/canonical_ version. Instead, the site that is syndicating the content is seen as the original version. This doesn't look to be a simple case of both versions are valid, but the syndicated site is just better promoted, but that it's actually the original version, for several articles. For example:   * My article   * The syndicated article   * The search The syndicated version is on 3rd place, my own content doesn't appear in the first 100 results. The website that syndicates my content does have a link back to my article; it also has the date on the article page, but it looks like this is the updated date, not the published date:   `<span class="date updated">May 7th, 2013</span>` On my website, the date looks like this: `<abbr title="2013-05-01T16:13:14+0000" class="date time published">May 1, 2013</abbr>` Should the syndicating site also use proper timestamps and a publish date? Can this be the reason Google picks it up as the original version? Also, is there any way to fix this problem?


Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by search engines?

Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jI9pw.png) Is this a possibility? Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer:                     Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase "foobar", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers? Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?


The concept of reputation and its effects on an online community

Having recently introduced the concept of a '+rep' button to an online community I manage, I've noticed a couple of things. It functions as the thanks button does on vBulletin (user says 'thanks' to a poster, and the poster has a record of all the thanks they've given and received. There is a listing of who has thanked a person below a post). Primarily it has become a way to add a voice to a discussion, without actually requiring the effort to type out a fully formed response. This brings the advantage of easily gauging popular opinions, and is a fun way of indicating good contributions to a thread. However, is has also been detrimental, particularly during disagreements where people feel 'ganged up' on by a crowd of non-participants. Fortunately this doesn't happen too often, given the size of my community (70-100 actives), but there have still been requests to disable the feature. I have a couple of questions.   1. What is the best way of keeping the concept of '+rep' or thanks without letting the mechanism be abused during personal disagreements between two members?   2. Are there any examples of such a system scaling well to larger communities? How was this achieved?


Someone Reported That My Company Is Out Of Business

I Googled our company name and found that someone had given us a review on the maps site. He gave us a 1 star review and his review was simply "Out of Business". We are definitely NOT out of business!!! I looked at his other reviews and he has given 69 1 star reviews, most of which are for companies in our shared industry (competitors). I flagged the one post as inappropriate and selected "other". Is there anything else I can do to prevent this guy from slandering our company (and others!)!


Registering a domain directly at nic.sm?

I am an individual and would like to register a ".sm" domain. Nic.sm provides forms for individuals to send them by fax or mail and information for payment is also available. The cheapest reseller that I found wants 135 EUR per year, whereas the cost at nic.sm is only 50 EUR a year. EDIT: The lengthy rules at nic.sm mention that they deal only with authorized resellers themselves. However, nic.sm links to Telecom Italia San Marino as an authorized reseller (at the top of the link list, in bold). Telecom Italia seems to follow the exact same procedures as nic.sm (the difference being that you send the forms to them instead of nic.sm). So the question remains: does Telecom Italia San Marino deal with private individuals directly? I wrote them an email some days ago with no reply.


Why am I getting messages from cloudfront in my error log?

I frequently have messages like this in my websites error log:               "Script error.". URL: https://e3m4drct5m1ays.cloudfront.net/items/loaders     /loader_21.js?pid=21&systemid=13504281c5a501837196c23300f84e66&aoi=1327214632&     zoneid=16620&cid=HK&rid=Hong%20Kong%20(general)&ccid=Kowloon&dma=0.      Line number: 0 Error name: Stack:       Now I don't actually know what cloudfront is or what it does. And I do not refer to this script in my site. So why would I be getting js error logged as if it was a script being run on my own site? This is using elmah logging.


Redirect all paginated pages to their main category page

I want to redirect all the paginated pages of the category pages to their respective category pages, because I don't want google to crawl the paginated pages. If my paginated category page URL is:               http://example.com/category/cat-name/page/4/      I want to redirect to:               http://example.com/category/cat-name/      This case can be anything from different page numbers to different category names. How can I achieve that using `.htaccess`? I'm running a WordPress site and already there are several redirects active:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^[0-9]+/([^/]+/[^/]+/?)$ /$1 [L,R=301,NE]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      ## EDIT First of all, some of my .htaccess rules are based on this StackOverflow Q&A. Because I need 'em to be there. So, after your comments, I got the point. With such a redirection in action my paginated pages won't be accessed ever, even after a hard-coded URL. Yes, that'd be a mess. Actually, you know WordPress category pages are auto generated with the number of posts. Suppose, in "Astronomy" category I got 32 posts and in each page I'm showing 10, then there would be 4 pages (10+10+10+2). Eventually I deleted two of the posts or recategorized them to another category. So the fourth page become orphan. Google crawls and got a 404. It's a continuous process and looking for such 404 hits is a critical matter for me. So I's looking for a solution. What can I do for such problem?


Can I create CSR for Symantec EV SSL from another machine?

Given the additional checks to validate the organisation for the EV certificates, must the CSRs be created from the actual production web servers? In my capacity as a contractor, I thought I would use my standard VM with IIS 7.5 and create CSRs with the right details (CN, O, OU, L, S, C), complete the request and export a password-protected PFX file including private key. The actual production environment has web servers behind a load balancer, so the certificate (PFX) will be imported into each. Does this approach work?


Stop other sites on server from being able to access other sites on server

I am on a friends server and I have found a potential security flaw where I can access other sites files on the server. He says he is on a shared hosting and I am not sure yet if the other sites are his or not, he has to get back to me on that. In the meantime though I was wondering how do sites like godaddy deal with this issue? Do they put each account on the server into a sort of virtual server so you can access your other sites on your account but can not access sites on other accounts? It might be the case that his server is working properly and all the sites I can access are his sites anyway since they are under his account. If they are all his sites then how can he prevent other sites from accessing other sites since some of them are for other peoples sites he manages for them.


Are there any reasons to put the domain name or company name in the page's title tag?

After I read this question and answer about SEO and title, I want to ask if it is necessary to put the company name or the domain name into the title. On the start page I think it is necessary, like Stack Exchange is doing it               www.stackoverflow => Stack Overflow     webmasters.stackexchange.com => Webmasters Stack Exchange      But what about other pages on this site? I see that this structure is used on this site, and across the StackExchange network `<something> \- Webmasters Stack Exchange`. Does this have any relevance for SEO?


Avoid the login popup when using http-auth

I have an Apache. Under the DOCUMENTROOT is a folder with an .htpasswd file for http-auth. If I open the browser and request the content in the folder I get an Popup to login. Is there a way to avoid the popup? I have tried to add the user and the password in the url:               http://user:passwd@domain.com/geheim      Unfortunately this doesn't work with every browser. Is there a workaround? Thanks


How to redirect on a very limiting hosting service

I need to create some new content which is the user getting their request routed to another site w/o them needing to know the ugly final URL. The user URL needs to be the simple easy to recall string, for example, `example.com/snappy`. So, I need to have a URL such as `http://example.com/snappy` redirect to something like `https://example.org/64g9sd3k96bhse38gmjdute.html`. If I were to use the technique I have used in the past I would create `/snappy/index.html` on the `example.com` system:               <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://example.org/64g9sd3k96bhse38gmjdute.html">      In this case though, I have a new situation where my `example.com` is hosted on `cloversites.com` which has "Websites made for people not programmers." They have such a canned system that the `index.html` cannot be created with the `meta` tag. I do have servers that can host web pages. I cannot move the existing `cloversites.com` content at this time. I am looking for an out-of-the-box solution until all of the existing content can be moved in house.


I have removed some pages from the Google index using webmaster tools but it still shows up in the search results. So you have any idea what would be the problem? You can see the screenshots below ![Removal request](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6Jwt5.jpg) ![Search Results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TTVwq.jpg)


Why there is an image that says this page is not available on all my blogger posts?

I have my blog for the last couple of years, but it is the first time that I see something like this: When I am in the main page, each of the posts have a message on top of them that says that the webpage is not available(see image at the bottom of this post). I don't know why is this happening at all. Ill appreciate your help. Any ideas? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/IpO6m.png) **update:** Update: I noticed that this doesn't happen in all of the posts, looks like just in the first 2 posts. I don't understand.


Google Site Search: Is it possible to extract labels from single pages?

if using Google Site Search (GSS) you can specify labels for different sites, so users can later refine their search with facets generated from these labels. This works fine if you can label pages according to different domains or distinct URL patterns (e.g. path segments that clearly mark different areas of your website). However, is there a way you can make Google extract the labels from an individual page itself, for example by providing some kind of meta information or structured content in the HTML source?


Weird URLs being access by Googlebot

Lately I've been seing all sorts of strange URLs show up as errors in my Webmaster tools account, but they're URLs that don't actually exist on my site, nor are linked from the pages that Google claims they're linked from.               URL                                 Response Code   Detected     yR3kna/5RfA4+ndtn/X4zcevudMlXbqbIrnPbH9irw= 404     9/16/12     OK4iaOVdr6Ocjmz+u1kuR5Q486mhDo/e45nwjl2+y8= 404     9/9/12     pxGz/oHEA0BS8U3VFBzJcZnnIHMsFXb3/rIxMxh2ws= 404     9/16/12     Af8tbvQ0HniIpf53I8Txz1hM1/JxxrFQxgqPuErWII= 404     9/9/12     7Bk7c0LDmm4PHyTjml017EGwNNPCn/p/0xMSWWPDic= 404     9/16/12     umCwnDvTE8ybpUB19MIb+VRj5xRJncyYGGfAQ2Mxn0= 404     9/1/12     # etc...      Do you know how to make these stop? It's not at all clear to me why it would be going to these URLs in the first place.


Spambots looking for phpmyadmin and more

I inherited a couple of sites that send the webmaster an email with each 404 error. I get a smattering of errors each day, but there are times when I'll get dozens, even hundreds, of errors from these sites in just a couple of minutes. Given what they're looking for (directories like phpmyadmin, wp- admin, register, admin, etc. and files like setup.php, register.php, admin.php, etc.) it's obviously a spambot trying to get access to the site. Is there a way to prevent them from even looking at the site? Should I set up a honeypot that provides some bogus info or something? And how do I accomplish this? I'm guessing that other sites (maybe all?) that I manage are being "attacked" in the same way, but I don't have a script that reports those errors in the same way so the squeaky wheel is getting my attention.


Why are some Shared Web Hosting configuration changes delayed?

I have used several shared web hosting packages over the years, however, more recently I have encountered _issues_ that have me questioning the purpose of delays in configuration changes. The web host in question is 1&1, which applies config changes with a delay. **The question** // _What_ is the benefit of delaying configuration changes? **Update** additional question // Why would some changes take the specified time ( _e.g. 10 minutes_ ), and sometimes several hours? * * * **The story** // The most recent incident was caused using the 1&1's WebsiteBuilder by a tech to create a temporary page. After this, the finalized site (html/js/css/etc.) was placed on the server through FTP. The following events occurred after:   1. Removed the domain from the _selection_ was applied immediately ( _i.e. selected -none-_ ).   2. Changed the domain destination folder, which were delayed a few minutes.      * Skip a few hours   3. Another tech _attempted_ some changes through the WebsiteBuilder.      * This change forced the Control Panel to copy the existing site files to a different folder.     * The change was applied immediately.   4. My **mistake** here was removing the newly created folder, and reapplying the domain destination folder.      * This change did **not** take effect immediately; in fact, it took _several hours_.     * The last tech kept attempting to _fix_ the site by making changes on the Control Panel. Due to the configuration effect delays on step 4, the tech kept making changes ( _presumably adding more changes to the configuration queue, I'm guessing_ ). Finally, all of these changes threw the site into a cycle of failed access, directory listing denied, 404's, etc.


Google references subfolders

Last week I launched a website and created a `robots.txt`:               User-agent: *     Disallow:     Sitemap: http://mywebsite.tld/sitemap_robots.xml      Now I've checked the indexed pages (`Google -> site:mywebsite.tld`) and found links to subfolders and non-public/internal files, that are place outside of the web root of the website. E.g.: `mywebsite.tld/vendor/`, `mywebsite.tld/module/`, `mywebsite.tld`, `mywebsite.tld/dev/`, `mywebsite.tld/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/tests/ZendTest/Test/PHPUnit` etc. Why are such folders being indexed? Why is it possible, if they are placed outside of the website root and there are not links to them? How to avoid indexing of such paths? * * * EDIT The folder structure of my website is:               /composer.json     /composer.lock     /composer.phar     /config/     /data/     /dev/     /init_autoloader.php     /LICENSE.txt     /module/     /public/ <-- web root     /README.md     /temp/     /vendor/      It's a common structure of a Zend Framework 2 project (with some additional folders). The document root is the folder `public` (set in Plesk): ![mywebsite-web-root](http://i.stack.imgur.com/goWaE.png)


How can I use google analytics to tell me how many people come from another, specific, site?

I am super new to GA, like I didn't even install it, just inherited it, and I'm trying to figure out how to tell if visits are being referred/just happen to be coming from a specific website. I want to find how many people come from one site to my site. Any help would be appreciated.


Are there any shared webhosts that offer Gmail or Google Apps as part of their package?

I see that Dreamhost is doing something like this but i am not clear how much extra it would cost me. Any other hosts?


Will Search Engines crawl my Github gists?

I have been using Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter in my blog for the past couple of years. It serves the purpose, but it is a pain to add the code while blogging (I need to use a HTML Encoder and manually add this piece wrapped around a `<pre>` tag. But, the positive thing is, I know for sure the search engine will crawl the code I have written. Recently I stumbled upon Github Gist and it was really easy to just copy paste, selected the language and embed in my website. However, the question I have here is, will the Search Engine crawl the code inside my gist making sure that it lands on my page?


How difficult is an unmanaged VPS?

I have some sites hosted on a shared-hosting/cpanel environment and need to make a move up. I have some experience running my own server, but it is very basic (a local box to do live testing/file serv). My question is how difficult is it to run a VPS, should I buy a managed VPS (with stuff already installed), or unmanaged (blank box), and lastly if I go for unmanaged what steps should I take to keep my VPS secure? Edit: Also how difficult is it to backup files and databases? Can it be automated? Thanks


fullscreen video background script

I'm looking for a script or a tutorial that allows me to stream for example a youtube video in fullscreen, but not flash because I want it to work on mobile devices too.


Redirecting all subfolder url's to another domain

I have a domain that is domain.com/portfolio/some-url I would simply like to direct all traffic that would normally go to the subfolder /portfolio to a new domain: new-domain.com/ How would I do this? Htaccess? Is there a way to do it to separate affiliation? Basically, all the /portfolio items are affiliate links that I don't need anymore and don't want the possibility of it decreasing my site rank in Google. What type of redirect should I use?


Low Bounce rate - too good to be true?

Found a website with 4% bounce rate over a 5 month period, getting a little over a 1000 visits a week with most visitors coming from organic search results. Is that even possible? I never seen a bounce rate so low. The website itself has just an image, horizontal nav (6 items) and a introduction paragraph with a bullet list on the home page. 60% of the visitors land on the home page. What could cause such low bounce rate? (not that's a bad thing).


How to remove a page from site without affecting google serp

I have a travel website. Just for information purposes, I had put a weather page. Now I realize that this page is increasing my overall bounce rate; because people who are looking for the weather forecast are landing on that page and getting what they want and exiting. What is the safest method to get rid of that page? Would it hurt my google rank if I remove it completely? Or is there a better way to handle this situation? I realize that around 21 percent of my daily hits are on that page. I would have been happy if my aim was to provide weather data for the location; however, my site needs to focus on selling hotels. So I think I need to get rid of this weather page immediately. What do you think?


Stylesheet switches increase loadtime?

I am using stylesheet switcher which uses a number of alternate stylesheets for the media="screen" and switches to those styles when instructed by the user. But in the web page I have to use several http requests to link so many style sheets which increases the loadtime. Is there anyway I can modify the code to load fast? How combining works I don't know since all style sheets are different.


How does Bing know when a result is clicked to use in website ranking?

I know that Google uses redirect links to count clicks ie:               https://www.google.com/url?q=http://html5test.com/&sa=U&ei=xlezU6DPIsqysQS824HwAg&ved=0CB0QFjAB&usg=AFQjCNEMhjMTe0TBrbgGmG6mlSygIF-mww      but Bing doesn't do this it instead gives you the actual link to the page. This page explaining Bings algorithm says it takes CTR into account


Mod_Rewrite Error code: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

I know alot people have post about this error , however i still unable to solve it.So that is the reason why i start a new post with it. As stated in the title , i encounter a redirect loop when accessing my pages in the website. Here is my rewrite config.               RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://example\.com/test/store\.do [NC]     RewriteRule (.*)$ /test/$1 [R]      So , how do I solve this redirect error? Here is the log file               [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345204 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] applying pattern '(.*)$' to uri '/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test/ /store.do', referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345213 2014] [rewrite:trace4] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] RewriteCond: input='http://example.com/test/store.do' pattern='^http://example\\.com/test/store\\.do' [NC] => matched, referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345218 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] rewrite '/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//whatshot_v3/hahah/store.do' -> '/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//store.do', referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345233 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] explicitly forcing redirect with http://example.com/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test/ /store.do, referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345239 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] escaping http://example.com/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//store.do for redirect, referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345245 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] redirect to http://example.com/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//store/store.do [REDIRECT/302], referer: http://example.com/test/store.do      Thanks. Hi all, I have found the solution for my problem. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://example.com/test/store.do [NC] RewriteRule ^/test - [R,L] #prevent for any URL to be place under /test.Thus , prevent looping. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://example.com/test/store.do [NC] RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /test/$1 [R,L] Thanks everyone.


Restrict access to directories hosting different sites

My hosting provider requires that my primary domain (let's call it `example.com`) points to my public_html root. I also own several other domains (let's call them `exampleA.com` and `exampleB.com`) that are hosted in sub- directories such that they can be accessed via `http://example.com/exampleA/` and `http://example.com/exampleB/` I would like to restrict people from accessing these secondary sites in this way. Ideally, there will be no indication that the secondary sites are in any way related to the primary domain. How do I do this? Modify the `.htaccess` file?


Joomla Backend running slow on localhost

I made a local backup of my Joomla site a few months ago to test changes before updating the live site. Everything worked fine. Today I checked the local version after a while but when I open access the administration panel via `sitename.com/administrator` it takes a while until the site is loaded. I tried out different things and accidentally disconnected my Network Connection. After that everything loads as fast as before. But when I connect the Network Connection the problem reappears. I am running Joomla 1.5.14 on XAMPP 1.7.0.


http://www.mysite.com/c/v to display different domain:http://www.myothersite.com/c/v

My site is written in asp.net using C#/MVC 4.5, and is hosted on Windows Server 2008, IIS7. # It has the following route `https://mysite.com/c/v`. When the user types in `https://www.myothersite/c/v`, I want it to redirect/route to `https://mysite.com/c/v`, however, I want the route in the client's browser to display `https://www.myothersite/c/v`. We obviously own both domain names, and, we own the web server that hosts `www.mysite.com`, and define the bind to `www.myothersite` will be on the same web server. Is this possible?


I have a question about Windows Azure compute pricing and perhaps other compute pricing methods as well

I've just started to test the Windows Azure webrole in a staging environment and selected the 'small' instance. The pricing is .12\hour. If it's enabled (even in staging) does that mean I'm charged every hour it's enabled where there is any computing costs or not? So, for example, if no one visits the website from midnight to 5am CST, would I be charged those 5 hours? 60 cents doesn't mean much but over the course of a year it's $219. I can get an entire year of hosting a small website at discountasp.net for under that. I'm actually thinking that MS would charge it based on seconds where computing is happening and charge by an hour after that but not sure. If not, I don't see why anyone would put a website on Azure of other discounted hosting providers. If anyone has a link showing the caculator for computing costs, please let me know.


How to use a domain name for a different existing website

I have a website, but I want to change the domain name to be used instead by another of my websites which is hosted somewhere else. How can I do that? For example, I have www.example.com it is about cats. Now I have made a website about dogs, and it is hosted somewhere else. I want to use www.example.com for that dog website. How can I do that?


Better ways to have valuable data indexed, which is ignored currently

.../a>      Hi folks. It seems that my _title tag_ which holds extremely valuable and describes contents on my simple design page is currently compeltely denied by search engines and not indexed at all!! Those descriptions should however be indexed as the describe valuable portions to an otherwise empty page with clean glossary (thats neat and organised to the eye of the viewer. So putting all that descriptive data into visible space would ruin the designish less is more fundamental... So, which alternatives to the `title` tag do I have, in order to put important contents that are relevant for both user as well as search engines?               A    ......</>     B
......</>     C    .......</>     D
.......</>      From the above list, arose my question: > Which of the above is advisable alternative in order to get the valuable > actual content indexed? Should it be in a a tag or p tag? Or are there even better tags for this which still keep layout clean? You suggestions are Much appreciated!


How to change Apache server to IIS server and MS SQL server database?

I have a domain with Apache server. I have the FTP logins. I want to change it to IIS server and MS SQL server database. How to convert it and who will do this?


Using XML in a Flex Website to Improve SEO

I've got a Flex 3 site called www.brainpinata.com that's a trivia game. Basically, everything in the site is pulled from a database-- the questions, choices, and answers. So, unfortunately, Google doesn't index my content. So, I'm trying to think of ways to improve the situation:   * If I took my database data and put it in an XML file which was in the website's root directory, would this work? Would it violate any Google policy? (The info would be the same as in the db-- so nothing shady.) Would I have to "wire" the XML into my site or would it be enough to just have the XML sitting in the root directory?    * Another idea is to use the noscript tag and load the XML content there. As I understand it Google indexes content that people who have Javascript turned off would see. I know Flex/Actionscript 3, and unfortunately, I don't know how to load XML content with HTML. Does anyone know of an example where a Flex site uses XML for the noscript content?


Is it a good idea to schema UserComments to latest comments in the sidebar?

So, I want to structure the most important parts of the site. I have main page, where there is a grid/wall of thumbnails. On the side, there is latest comments. Is it a good idea to structure them as UserComments. Or will the engines think, that those are the comments for that page?


Edit, Add, and Delete in Orchard CMS

In the few CMS systems I have played around, a central feature is a list of content items, maybe filtered, but normally such a screen has links to add, edit, or delete an item. When I create a standard Projection in Orchard, I fell very constrained by it's workflow for that, and then I feel plain frustrated that there is apparently no way to place an Add link on the projection, and neither to place edit or delete links on each line in the list. Just BTW, another frustration here is I can find no way to show the owner of a content item in the projection. Most CMS systems also have at least an edit button when viewing a content item if you are the ownder of that item. I have no problem placing an Edit link in the content, but then I must always manually find out the URL of the content item, and how to construct a hyperlink that opens an editor for that item.


display Google display ads to visitors who have visited certain web sties

For Google Adwords re-marketing, display ads are shown to visitors have been to your site previously. So when the go to a web site displaying adsense, it is likely that re-marketing ad will be displayed to them. Is there a way to do the same for if a visitor has visited a competitors site. i.e. if a visitor goes to one of my competitor sites, I want the display ads they see, to be mine. Is that possible?


How do I replace the Magento favicon?

I'm trying to replace the Magento favicon, but I can't seem to find it. Where is it?


Where can I get photoshop images like this for my website

I see a lot of websites like this one and I wanted to see where people get these images from to have the raised panel floating on the background. I see a lot of these sites use this technique and i wonder how they do this . . ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BjnIU.png) Do these sites build this stuff in photoshop from scratch or is there a place to get templates like this to use on a website?


Sessions suddenly not working in PHP, and error log contains a lot of junk now

So I was developing my PHP application, right? And then all of a sudden, my sessions wont work anymore! So I checked my error log, and here is what it told me (a few times) > PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library > '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/imagick.so' - > /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/imagick.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown Whats going on? I have a regular webhost with access to cPanel. This just happend all of a sudden, and I have no clue of what to do. Help appreciated. :)


Creating a form that posts to Twitter - how to get started?

I'm trying to figure out how to create an HTML form that would allow a user to log in and tweet their message directly to Twitter. What resources should I look at to get started?


Would the following URLs result in duplicate content if I only used one canonical link?

In your experience, have you ever had problems with duplicate content being caused by the following URLs:   1. `www.mysite.net`   2. `www.mysite.net/`   3. `www.mysite.net/index.html` Do you think that this could result in a duplicate content issue if my canonical link is constantly pointing to only this: `www.mysite.net`


Google Webmaster Tools reports fake 404 errors

I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return a 200, all those 15,000 pages won't index in Google. They aren't appearing in search results. These are constant errors Google Webmaster Tools keeps reporting and I'm not sure what the problem is. We've thought of a DNS issue, but it shouldn't be a DNS issue, because if it were, no page would be indexed (I have 10,000 perfectly indexed). Regarding URL parameters, my pages do not share a similarity in URL parameters that can make it obvious to me what could be causing the error.


Set nameserver in WHM with VPS that has no domain name?

I have a new VPS I want to use to manage sites on. I need to set up nameservers so that I can point the domain names to the new servers. I know nameservers usually look like `ns1.example.com` where `example.com` is the domain name of the VPS, but my VPS does not have a domain name, I just access it via the servers IP. Is it OK to use a domain name of one of the sites I am trying to set up instead?


Organizing main page with detailed content

I need to develop a structure like the one that appears in the following site: http://www.autoic2.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JjJyi.png)   * Clicking an image, showing the related content   * Clicking in that new content, showing the details The possibility to have a backoffice would be the ideal. I'm searching since this morning, but until now, didn't found something usefull to help me with this situation. Any available script that you know, so i can modify or learn from it? All suggestions are welcome.


Make a particular section of a webpage appear on top webcache

I would like to make a particular content of my webpage that appears at the bottom to appear on top on webcache of Google (text only version). eg: `http://salesforce.com` has a slider content that appears at the bottom on the webpage while the cached version of it `http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.salesforce.com/&biw=1366&bih=633&strip=1` has the slider content appearing on top. I would like to do something similar for my webpage. Is it a script or a design practice that I need to follow?


Google sitemap for dynamic url structure

I am wondering what the best approach would be to generating a sitemap for google to crawl with a highly dynamic url structure. We have a webapp that assigns custom uris to all the users in our database for direct access to their content. All the uris are namespaced to one endpoint. The uris are chosen by the user who owns the profile and assume a human- readable form ('/profile/someguy') Would google require that all possible uris be documented in the sitemap? Wouldn't this lead to a ridiculously large xml file? It would be possible to periodically generate this using a script and break it up into smaller sitemaps if that is what's necessary. I have searched the webmaster docs for answers to this, but they largely only cover dynamic urls that use query strings, not ones that are generated in a readable format. Any guidance is much appreciated!


Is it better to move unrelated content to another domain?

I have an ecommerce site with an online community on a different subdomain. The community ranks for different keywords. If I would move the community to a different domain would that impact the SEO of the ecommerce site in any meaningful way?


How can I see who is connecting to my websites on my server and possibly their IPs ?

1) How can I know how many people is connected to the server in a specific moment (or previous hours of the day). (Even in real-time) 2) How can I know which one of the websites on my server they are visiting. (The websites are in different folders 3) How can I see their IPs ?


Bringing a site back online (with about 3000 internal pages) after two years?

I've had a site that I've had turned off for the last year or two, and I restored it from database and switched it back on recently. I've placed it on the same domain where it was, on a new server with all the content it used to have. It's a Q/A answer style site (similar to StackExchange) so it had a lot of content and a lot of internal pages. The site used to get a significant amount of SEO traffic (about 80% of it's traffic used to come from organic), I'm wondering if Google is likely to put a red flag on my site since it may look strange that it's gone from being down to all of a sudden having ~3000 internal pages. Am I likely to get black-listed? Is there anything I can do to ensure that I don't and to ensure that I'm not penalized (and that hopefully my Google rankings are restored in as short a time-frame as possible to what they previously were)? Thanks in advance.


How to design a slogan

Which tools and techniques do you use for designing slogans on website? I tried this one but I wasn't satisfied with it. There is little choice of usable designs and it is aliased in firefox (in chrome is was better). thank you


Problem with Google crawler and cached results

I have a client that has 3 domain names. For the sake of this argument I will call them `www.website1.com`, `www.website2.com` and `www.website3.com`. He used to have a website package with VistaPrint and `www.website1.com` was his main business website and website2 and website3 used to redirect to the main website. However recently I created a new WordPress website for him and now his main domain name is `www.website3.com` and website1 and website2 simply redirect to the main website. But when I go on Google and search for the domain name (any of the three) it does not show me the description of the website and it says: _A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more._ I used to have a _robots.txt_ file but have deleted it since the migration to the client's host however Google seems to have indexed it in the meanwhile. I got in touch with the hosting company and they said that it is a virtual file and that it doesn't physically exist - and that the issue with the description in Google is happening because it has indexed the website while the _robots.txt_ was there. I want all references to website1 and website2 to vanish from Google and I only want it to index `www.website3.com`, which is the main business website - with the correct description of the site What are my options? I logged into Google Webmaster Tools and it still says that the file is there. I hope you understand what I want to achieve but feel free to ask for clarification Any advice will be greatly appreciated as I want to solve this issue ASAP before it starts damaging the client's online presence and reputation


What WordPress plugins are "must have" for a site?

I'm new to WordPress CMS and have just created a site+blog using it. What set of plug-ins do you recommend me to install? I believe there are some useful, proven and "must have" WordPress plug-ins for SEO, optimization of the site, social network and bookmarking services, spam prevention, etc. that you usually use in your projects. Thanks! PS The question I ask might look as subjective, but I believe there is a certain set of plug-ins which is useful for every WordPress project.


Track down segmentation faults in PHP?

I'm looking for a relatively painless way to track down segmentation faults in PHP (as reported in the Apache error log). This is my LAMP setup at the moment: Linux: OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64   Apache: 2.2.15-3.7   MySQL: 5.1.46-2.18   PHP: 5.3.2-1.31 The code in question is not my own, it is Gallery2: http://gallery.menalto.com A typical scenario is that I go to the gallery main page and none of the thumbnails appear but I get a new set of segmentation fault errors in the error log. Given the relative complexity of that software, it's not particularly suited to simple forms of debugging. I'd like to be able to step through the code and see exactly what is happening. "Solutions" I've seen so far for doing this have been pretty far from "relatively painless." I've successfully used Gallery2 on this server (earlier versions of LAMP software packages) and on other servers, so I assume there is something defective in my current configuration, but without being able to see where the fault is occurring, I can't fix or work around it.


Site speed: less KB image vs. less HTTP request

I have an interesting problem, I guess... First of all, I want to use sprites, to reduce the HTTP request on my site. That is because I know it's better for SEO and it makes the site faster, most of the time. The interesting thing, though, is that my sprite is bigger in size in comparison with if I use four separate background images. The sprite: 20kb vs. 10 kb if I use 4 separate images. **20 kb vs. 10kb = 1 request vs. 4 request**. What weighs more? P.S.: the background images are used because I want to distinguish the posted forum; so not essential, but I found it necessary. P.S. 2: I know it's better to use `<img>` tags with the `alt` attribute, but I haven no choice in this one, because it's conditional.


Simple future-proof, backwards-compatible way to play audio mp3 files in-place on the page?

I have a site for a musician that includes music in `mp3` format, but these are played through a Flash file (xspfplayer). Of course, without Flash this is useless. Is there a better future-proof, and reasonably backwards-compatible way to include mp3 audio snippets on a page without forcing users to use Flash, and also not forcing them to download the mp3 first, or to leave the page entirely?


What are the pros & cons of web server log analysis over web based analytics like google analytics

What are the advantages of web server log file analysis over web services like google analytics? What are the advantages of google analytics like tools over web server log file analysis?


Google bots and iframe

Here is the problem: Let say I have `mydomain.com`. The `externaldomain.com/article/mydomain` has an `iframe` with `mydomain.com` inside but the `externaldomain.com` _robots.txt_ contains:               Disallow: /article/       Will Google crawl `mydomain.com` inside the `iframe` at `externaldomain.com/article/mydomain` or it will block `mydomain.com`, because `externaldomain.com` _robots.txt_ disallow the folder `/article`?


Change Subdomain follow IP Country?

I have something don't know to do it. I want to config domain when the User go to my website, system is catching IP Country of user and auto change my subdomain from www.mysite.com/index.aspx to www.unitedstate.mysite.com (US Pepople), www.france.mysite.com (France Pepople), www.japan.mysite.com (Japan Pepople).... I want to develop my website on global, change language, currency by catching IP Country of user visit my website. Can i do it and how can i config in IIS? I using private Window Server ASP.Net. Your answer is helpful with me ! Thanks so much.


Site hosted in DREAMHOST, planning to add additional servers or 3rd party webhost to handle huge traffic

Our company site is hosted from a VPS server in Dreamhost. The site is created in Drupal and loaded with a number of Drupal modules. It has a huge page views and unique visitors , although it is already running from a VPS server it is so slow specially during peak times. Any recommendations what should I do? Is it possible to add additional servers or third party webhosting company to help handling the site traffic. If this is possible, what should I do, how should I start. Is Round Robin DNS applicable in Dreamhost, if yes, how, what should I modify?


Is 322 gigabytes traffic for Partial contents normal?

We have a small community for our university students. There we provide some tutorials and other stuff that may help students to accomplish their task better. The catch is I think our traffic is abnormally high! We only have 2000 visits per day at its best (for the last 3 month we have had something around 1500 visits per day - more info here). Having this said, our monthly traffic has been ranging from 30 Gigabytes for our first month to 70 Gigabytes for the last month and now 322 Gigabytes for the past 16 days of the new month! I checked the awstats figures and found that 98% of this traffic is for partial contents . Now my question are:   * Having said all this about our community and its size, is this abnormal?   * How can we get more information on the contents being downloaded on our community site?   * In case it is abnormal and abusive how can we avoid it?


Where could I find a list of IP address that belong to paid VPN networks?

I would like to know if there is a list of known IP addresses that belong to paid VPN services, such as HideMyAss or PureVPN. **EDIT** I am looking for this because I am tracking votes by IP address and am getting fraudulent votes through services like HideMyAss or PureVPN.


Authorize.net payment gateway... few questions

I need a good payment gateway for my shop (Drupal Ubercart). I was considering to use Authorize.net... is it available in Europe ? My customer has revenues of 10.000 per week so I'm looking for a professional solution. Could you give me some tip ? thanks


Very low CTR in google organic results

My webpage is positioned for some phrases, but does not generate much visits. Eg. the most searched phrase had average 5.6 position in google, but the CTR is about 2%. What should I do to improve CTR? I myself, when I look for something, usually open all pages in first page of results automatically, and then read what's in these pages. Do other people do that? Would rich snippets improve situation? Any other means to improve situation? (I don't know if I should provide here my key phrases and webpage, it's in Polish...) EDIT: **This is for organic search results, the page is positioned to be in first 10 results of search, and I'm interested in getting revenue from organic search only. No Adwords.**


Shall I remove pages for deprecated products?

On our company site we have pages for multiple products. Some of the products become "deprecated". These products are of no interest for us because they give no income. Pages for "deprecated" products attract relatively high number of visitors (more than the half combined). Keywords for "deprecated" and "not-deprecated" products have very-very little in common. Is it wise (from SEO perspective) to move all the pages for "deprecated" products to other sites? For us it basically doesn't matter what will happen with "deprecated" products and pages related to them but we of course don't want to affect other products in any negative way. The whole point of all this is to "tell" search engines that our site is more focused on what will left.


two seperate websites but I want one to rank quicker

I want to get a site I've had a while rank quicker, it is http://socialmediamarketingthailand.com being a social media marketer in Thailand. It's been up a while but I've not had much content on a free template. I also own http://internetmediathailand.com and this is on page one Google for 'social media marketing bangkok' keyword search. I have since spent a lot of time making http://socialmediamarketingthailand.com a lot nicer and with new content, and http://internetmediathailand.com is looking old yet has the ranking. If I redirect Internet media to the newer fresher socialmedia site will I get anywhere quicker?


How often should one submit a site map to Google for a site similar to this?


Which current stock mobile browsers support linked phone numbers by default?

The better question is, are there any that currently DO NOT support auto linking of phone numbers by default? Main support for iPhone, Android, BB, Windows Phone, Palm. I'm trying to determine if I should be adding href tags to the phone numbers on multiple client sites (e.g. `<a href="tel:+1-800-555-1212">800-555-1212</a>`). The only reason I would be doing such a thing at this point is to allow for backwards mobile (or future) compatibility, however, I'm having a hard time determining if it's worth the time or effort, as these links currently don't do much in a normal browser (FF, IE, Chrome, Safari, etc).


How do search engines treat domains created out of country codes (e.g bit.ly)

I have a site that has a domain name that is a word created out of a country code (like bit.ly awe.sm favo.rs) My question is how do search engines handle these. For example, would a search on favors return a link to favors given their search criteria? For on site copy, should the domain be used or the underlying word without the dot in it? I'd like to know which would be most optimal to use in site copy for SEO purposes.


SEO for a list of products with filters

I am a wondering if there is a recommended "best practice" for a product search SEO. I know to create a dynamic sitemap file that lists links to all products in the site. However, I want to implement a bookmark-able "advanced search". Should I let search engines index any of the results? Take the following parameters for a search on a make believe used car website:   * **minprice** (minimum price in dollars)   * **maxprice** (maximum price in dollars)   * **make** (honda, audi, volvo)   * **model** (accord, A4, S40)   * **minyear** (minimum model year)   * **maxyear** (maximum model year)   * **minmileage** (minimum mileage)   * **maxmileage** (maximum mileage) Given these parameters, there could be an infinite number of search combinations:   * Price Between $10,000 and $20,000      * /search?minprice=10000&maxprice=20000   * Audis with less than 50k miles      * /search?model=audi&maxmileage=50000   * More than 100,000 miles and less than $5,000      * /search?minmileage=100000&maxprice=5000   * etc. Over time, there may be inbound links to a variety of these types of searches, yet they are all slices of the same data. Should I allow for all of these searches to be indexed?


Repeat use of Schema / Rich Snippets Markup i.e LocalBusiness Data

I am unable to find official wording and I'm hoping that some Rich Snippets/Schema Guru can give me some insight into proper usage of repeated content when it comes to using markup. I'm building a site that wants to use Schema as the markup type and the owner would like as much usage as possible. The business name, telephone and address will appear on every page now is it valid or even useful to use Rich Snippets on every page where this information is displayed. For example this information appears in the header, and footer of every page of the site and too give you an example of my current markup see below:                                                            01202 000 000
 This is where the content will go
            Company Name        A small little bit about this company
         Address Goes here         Area Here,         Region Here
            !-- Local Business Schema Now Closed -->      So as you can see above this information will be displayed on every single page.... Is this valid or bad to repeat usage of this information in schema format...


Similar URLs for same page

I'm working with a site that uses slightly different URLs for the same content. The sitemap lists the pages as:               www.website.com/webpage.html      If you surf through the site the same page is found at:               www.website.com/webpage      Without the .html ending. This could get fixed using canonical tags, but is it worth the effort when two URLs are that similar? Would a search engine consider them two different pages?


Apache Virtual Host different depending on client ip?

What I'm trying to accomplish is:               1. A person, with IP 192.168.1.5 loads my webserver (192.168.1.2) and reaches htdocs/     2. Another person, with ip 192.168.1.6 does the same request, and reaches htdocs/folder/      If possible, I'd like to stick to port 80 requests only. I'm currently using the setup:               <LocationMatch "/">         Order deny,allow         Deny from all         Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 localhost 192.168.1.5         ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var     </LocationMatch>            <VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80>         ServerAdmin frederik@*.dk         DocumentRoot "/XAMPP/htdocs/"         ServerName 192.168.1.2         ErrorLog "logs/lan-error.log"         CustomLog "logs/lan-access.log" combined     </VirtualHost>      I'd like to allow everyone else to see the folder. And then, depending on the client IP, set another DocumentRoot.


How to get Magento to update order status when PayPal returns IPN message?

When someone checks out in Magento with PayPal, and PayPal flags their payment for review, Magento correctly sets the order status to "Payment Review". However, if after a day or two PayPal decides the order is OK, it sends an IPN message to Magento with the proper payment status of "Pending" and pending reason of "authorization". I can see this IPN message in Magento's paypal logs (and can simulate it with the sandbox), however, when Magento receives this message it does not update its order status. Why not and how can this be fixed? I am using Magento 1.5.1.0.


Gracefully handling a site update

I'm in the process of changing things on one of my sites. As I don't really have a staging environment I'm planning to take the site offline for about a couple of hours. How do I handle this gracefully so that if Google visits I don't get penalized?


The number of sites on a shared host

I have been looking at a number of shared hosting providers, and I used domaintools.com services to see how many other domains are hosted at a single IP address. I think Hostgator had a high number of domains on one IP address (around 1,300) and DreamHost had a much smaller number - around 40 domains. Should I worry about a high number versus a low number, or is this inconsequential to the performance of the domain, all other things being equal?


Creating a DNS Server

I want to create a DNS Server (like Google does - 8.8.8.8). I understand that a DNS Server is a Server that gives a IP on being given a hostname, ie. when I ask it what is the IP of google.com, it says "64.233.160.0". So, what I want to do is create a similar one that holds records of what translates to what. I thought of this since it looks to be similar to a webserver - ask for a page and it gives back the page. That is, when my machine has the IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and people chose xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as their Primary DNS Server, then when they ask "www.google.com", I sould be able to tell "64.233.160.0". So, how do I create this DNS Server that is accessible to everyone in the world ? It would be easier if we have something like EasyPHP which is the analogue to a webserver here.


How to track inbound HTTP traffic using Plesk 10.4.4?

I am running Plesk 10.4.4 on a Debian 6.0 server. The outbound traffic is being tracked but the inbound http traffic seems to be 0 at all times, i.e. looking at the `DomainsTraffic` and `ClientsTraffic` the `http_in` column is always 0. Is this a setting that I have missed? I've had a look and cannot find anything. How do I get Plesk to track the inbound HTTP traffic? I have already made sure that Home > Tools & Settings > Server settings had 'Include in the traffic calculation' set to 'inbound and outbound traffic', yet this does not solve the problem. Apache allows inbound traffic to be logged using `%I` in the log format, is there a way to get Plesk to add the `%I` to the log and then use that in bandwidth calculations?


Google Analytics HTTP vs HTTPS

I want to use Google Analytics on a website that uses both HTTP and HTTPS that works as explained below:   1. Secure pages accessed through `https://mydomain.com/secure/*` are always on HTTPS. Any access to these pages through HTTP will be redirected to HTTPS.   2. Any other pages will be accessible through both HTTP and HTTPS I have a Google Analytics profile with URL using HTTPS. Will I cover all traffic? Do I need to create another profile using HTTP and how should I apply the other profile?


Drop down menu for blogger with automatic link update

My mom has a recipe blog in blogger which has many categories "Cakes", "Celebration Day" etc which are filled with numerous recipe posts. Now I want to organize my blog in a better way and make a drop down menu for all the categories(I already have labels) but I dont want to keep updating the menu whenever I include a new post. I want to have it updated automatically. Is there any way it can be done with CSS or html codes?


How do I migrate web files from a Plesk 8 installation (on a slaved HDD) to a Plesk 10.4.4 installation?

Due to Plesk 8 being at end of support our host setup a new installation of RHEL and Plesk 10 on a new hard drive. They then slaved the old drive to the new so that we could migrate all our files using SSH. I am having challenges correctly migrating the sub domain files. The path to subdomain root folder in Plesk 10.4.4 is confusing as I don't know where to copy the files to. The path to the files on the slaved drive is `/mnt/old-drive/var/www/vhosts/domain_name.com/subdomains/SUBDOMAIN_NAME/`, meanwhile on the new installation I have `/var/www/vhosts/SUBDOMAIN_NAME.domain_name.com`. There is an httpdocs folder in the `/var/www/vhosts/domain_name` folder but none in the `/var/www/vhosts/SUBDOMAIN_NAME.domain_name.com` folder. Where do I copy my subdomain files to?


Website restyle, SEO migration plan?

I am currently in a project for one of my biggest clients. We have built a website that will -replace- the old website. When it comes to actual content its is largely the same. However, the presentation of the content has changed drastically. From our point of view much more user-friendly (main reason to update the site). Now, since the sites presentation has changed we have some major changes in:   1. HTML & CSS: To change the presentation of the content   2. URL's: To make them better understandable (301 redirects have been taken care of and are in place)   3. Breadcrumbs: To enhance the navigation (we have made the breadcrumbs match exactly with the url's)   4. Pagination: This was added to enable content browsing   5. Title tags: Added descriptive title tags to the major links and buttons. Basically all user content including meta tags have remained the same. Now since this company is rather successful and 90% of its clients come from Google's organic results I am obliged to take all necessary precautions. People tell me I need a migration plan to prevent the site being hurt in Google, but I have never worked using such a plan... ...So, based on the above. Would you consider a migration plan necessary and what precautions/actions would you recommend to prevent us being put down in our SERP positions? Many thanks in advance for your answers.


google image sitemap title and caption, which is more important?

here is the document about google image sitemap, But `<image:caption>` and `<image:title>`, which is more important? if i have only one description of this image, which part is better to be put in? I mean put the description in `<image:caption>`, leave `<image:title>` is blank, or put the description in `<image:title>`, leave `<image:caption>` is blank. Another question, if I store image in a third part image cloud server(the image domain is not my main site domain), is it matter to make a `google image sitemap`? such as:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"       xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">      <url>        <loc>http://www.mydomain.com/somepage.html</loc>        <image:image>          <image:loc>http://couldserver.com/image.jpg</image:loc>        </image:image>        <image:title>           a pretty car        </image:title>      </url>      </urlset>


Tumblr blog under subdomain blog.mysite.com - do I still get the benefit?

I've got a Tumblr blog for my main site, I use it more as a proper blog with articles and images, rather than just a tumblog. The blog is mapped to `blog.mydomain.com`. Becuase of the ease of _social_ reposting in Tumblr people often repost my articles (which is great - backlinks!) But all these links go back to my blog and not my main site which is a `mydomain.com` does Google see `blog.mydomain` and `mydomain` as the same / linked item and is my main site getting the benefit of these links?


SEO For Banner Images

I'm working on a site with large banners on the home page under the main menu that rotate. I'm being told that for SEO I need to overlay the text in the banner over the banner image and remove the text from the image itself. Isn't that what alt tags are for or am I ignorant? Is there anything to be gained by this approach? Seems like wasted effort to me. My apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere.


Browser testing - Ideas on how to tackle it efficiently

Browser testing, the bane of any web designers life! Are there any tools and/or ways in which I can efficiently test different browsers on both Mac and PC? I not only want to test different browsers but also different versions of each browser. My current setup is on a Mac running VirtualBox with Windows Vista installed. This allows me to test both Mac and PC but the complications arise when trying to test different versions of browsers. Any one have any ideas?


Help Desk Software with user groups and temporary ban function?

Does anyone know any Help Desk Software which allow you to create user groups / to mark/categorize specific users in some way / and to to ban specific users/e-mails (not user groups) for a specific period of time? Kayako? OTRS? simpledesk?... Kayako looks to be very functional but not sure if it has this option. zendesk is also very functional but a SaaS service not a downloadable software. Since the functions that I am saying are very common in forum software, maybe simpledesk could do it since it is based in SMF. Any ideas?


Managing DNS records for server failover with cname records

I currently have 2 servers with identical files for a number of websites in 2 different locations. One has fast internet access but is regularly offline whereas the other is always on and has slower internet access. They are both on dynamic IPs so I use noip to get an address which then provides the static address for my domain names via a cname entry in the dns table. The domains are managed by 123-reg and getting static IPs isn't an option. Currently, I have to manually change the dns records whenever the faster server is online to offer a faster connection. Obviously this is a time consuming job and with a TTL of 4 hours, a slow process. Is there a way I can either set my dns records to point to both dynamic dns addresses and have it pick an active one (either randomly or with preference going to the faster connection) or have both servers update the same ddns entry again, giving preference to the faster one but allowing the slower one to take over when its not available. Thanks


Multiple images on one page: best ranking practices

I have several images related to one object and they all should be placed on one web-page. I'd like to know how do I place those images among the page body and its text. I can not do it manually to distribute the images evenly among the page so I'd do the following: APPROACH ONE: I'd place only one image with its corresponding caption text below, alt and title somewhere in the top of the page with all the rest text following this image. All other images should replace the first one by JS- function as the user pressing the corresponding button "Next". QUESTION: Will Google (and the rest of search engines) index the images indicated only in JS section of the page? And even if 'yes' will SE's rank them in the same way? I'd bear with it if the first image will be considered as the main and the others as less important. APPROACH TWO: I'd place all images one after another with attribute 'hidden' for all of them except the first one. The caption will be placed in the end of those images bunch and the alt- ant title-tags will be the same for all of the images. QUESTIONS: I can suppose that the last image will be considered as the most important by the SE's as the caption will be most close to it and I don't really like it. Please advise me which approach is better or propose yours. The image search is supposed to be the most important source of traffic so it's very important for me.


html: Should <code> be placed within a paragraph?

Markdown creates output like this:
see this example:

code
      Is this correct or should it be:
see this example
code

      To me the second one seems correct, since the paragraph and the code example are one unit. What are your thoughts about this? edit: actually I could argue the same about a list (eg "order any of the following:") but a list can't be placed withing a paragraph. edit2: to clarify, technically both are correct, as a table based layout is technically possible. But what would you argue is the way that best expresses the intention of the tags given a paragraph like this? Or maybe it doesn't matter? Note that the pre element isn't very relevant here (but included because markdown outputs it too).


Question regarding duplicate contents

If I create blogs using different blog domains with the same content (own content) and link it with my original website using targeted anchor text, will it harm my SEO of my original website? The original website is genuine and doesn't have any copied contents. I'm using cross-domain canonicalization to some extend, but can't use it in all the articles and blogs. Will the duplicate contents from my own different blogs will hurt my original site just because it links to it?


View browser usage by location in Google Analytics

Is there a way to separate out browser usage by location in Google Analytics? Like for example, seeing that all traffic from Nevada came from what browsers? Or, selecting a single browser and seeing where all of the traffic came from that used that browser?


SEO: Make hashtag links look static

So I have a website which displays all my content vertically. (like modern websites often do these days). Thus I can't create static links to each section. I'm currently handling the scrolling with javascript. My navigation looks like this.

Services

References

Blog

Contact

      I also created 301 redirect links with htaccess. E.g. `/services` which leads to `/#services`. If I were to use them in my navigation, I'd have to trigger the scrolling with the onpopstate event. Thats not really a problem, but would searchengines accept that kind of setup ? I also created a sitemap and submitted it to google, but the indexing is still pending.


How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?

A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).   It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company. I realized that this is largely due to* search engines (Google especially) assuming that the query was misspelled and automatically including results for both 'train communications' and 'communications training'. Both of those queries yield many high-ranking sites that completely drown out hers. Sometimes Google even shows results for 'communications training' _instead_ of 'tranin communications', hiding her site altogether. Is there a way to report an incorrect auto-correction to Google or something I can do to discourage this behavior (e.g. a meta tag)?   My searches have come up cold, any suggestions would be appreciated. *I've come to this conclusion because her site ranks very highly when the same queries are put in quotes.


Web Analytics for knowledge base articles

Like most companies, our support team has a help page/knowledge base available online. We've got Google Analytics setup on the site as a whole and I'd like to start better utilizing the tools available for optimizing the Help pages. However, most of the literature on web analytics focuses on sales and conversions where as in a Support page our goals are quite different. Specifically, we want to reduce incoming support requests. Can anyone advise in the types of things we should be monitoring or where to go for more information?


How do I get the time (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) of my KissMetrics events?

Do I need to make my own tool to get that from s3 json dumps of the raw event data, or can I magick the Reports view to show it somehow instead of just filtering on it?


Firefox 22+ large font workaround

I'm working on a website and Firefox is displaying it's font extremely large. Chrome and Safari are displaying normal font size. Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine. Firefox uses the Gecko engine. I've found that you can change font display in Firefox by typing               about:config      in the firefox address bar and changing the                layout.css.devPixelsPerPx      value to 1. Although this might work on some systems, I don't want my user to need to do this. How can I make sure that the font is displayed correctly? I've tried adjusting CSS with               -moz-font-size      and variants but it doesn't work. I really can't change all my text to images, that's just wrong. Is there a specific syntax for this? Or any suggested workaround that would be optimal? Chrome![Chrome image](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NPq8i.png) Firefox![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y3bxk.png)


Advertising for google+ followers

Is there a way to advertise with google to specifically increase the number of followers to my google+ page? I got it to work pretty well with facebook and now I'm trying to increase the visibility of my google+ page.


How do I ensure that my content is sent via gzip in Apache?

Is there some setting that I can search for in Apache configurations to make sure that all pages, CSS, and JavaScript are sent via gzip? Are they located in different places for different Operating Systems (if so, I am running Debian).


Does loading and executing external javascript have influence on SEO?

Say I have a script that executes after `DOM Ready`. It loads more resources (like a twitter feed and the like). So, it adds up to the total experience of 'waiting' for the page to load, though it isn't content critical. Does this have (a negative) influence on my Google ranking?


URL Forward all links from domain without slugs

I have an old site which I no longer use so I decided to redirect the domain to an article from another domain. The old site does not have web hosting anymore which means I had to url forward through my domain registrar (Namecheap) to redirect. I followed this tutorial and succesfully redirected all traffic from   `http://old-site.com` to `http://new-site.com/post/2`      But when I try to access `http://old-site.com/old-slug/dead-link` it redirects to   `http://new-site.com/post/2/old-slug/dead-link` Is there a way to redirect all urls from `http://old-site.com`, regardless of slugs, to `http://new-site.com/post/2`?


How do I upgrade the PHP MySQL Library?

My PHP MySQL Library version is out of date with my MySQL Vesion. How do I fix this? Server: CentOS 6.3 Steps Taken:   * FRESH machine originally installed with MySQL 5.1 and PHP 5.3   * I uninstalled php and then installed php54w (and most dependancies, including php54w-mysql from webtatic)   * I uninstalled mysql and installed mysql55 mysql55-server from webtatic At this point everything is fine but my mysql lib is out of sync (message form phpmyadmin): "Your PHP MySQL library version 5.1.69 differs from your MySQL server version 5.5.31. This may cause unpredictable behavior." Now, I know some people have suggested that this is fine for the most bit, but this will be a production machine and I don't want to assume it will be fine.   * I tried removing and re-installing php54w-mysql, didn't work So, how do I upgrade the PHP MySQL Library? Thanks!


What is a good network for full-page rich ads?

I'm currently developing a website where users will be able to upload content. I would like to be able to show a full-page ad whenever someone tries to view the content. The ad should take up most of the screen, and I should be able to have a "continue to the content -->" link at the top. Preferably, I want something like what is currently on Forbes (if you haven't seen it, here: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome.shtml but with an ad in the black area). Of course, the most revenue is the best.


Just bought a domain, setting up a couple server applications for the first time

I recently bought a domain, mainly for website experimentation, game servers and a ventrillo server. I'm running all this from my home computer, and I am using freedns.afraid.org as my dns nameserver. I'm able to host my ventrillo and my game server, however you can access either of them from any of my subdomains. I would like specific programs to only work with specific ports, but I can't seem to find a way to make this happen. So in my Ventrillo subdomain, I try putting in the IP address in the destination as "MyIPAddress:PortNumber" , but it says its an invalid IP address. The ddns client I use doesn't have any options to change the ports on the connections either. Am I just missing something here, or is there no way to tie specific server applications to specific ports with a subdomain? I also am curious as to how hosting this domain will affect my pc security. I'm running this on a Windows 7 pc. I know its best to have a stand alone computer for this stuff, but like I said its only experimental and I don't plan on running these more than a couple hours a day, if that. Are there any steps I need to take to increase my security, beyond basic Windows security measures?


frontend instances VS backend instances

What is the difference between Frontend instances and Backend instances in Google App Engine? What purpose is each good for? I have tried reading some stuff from Developer's Guide and I searched google, but I got mainly pricing issues and no technical difference.


Google Displaying "Read More" Rather Than the Page Title for a "site:" Search

I am having some trouble with Search Engine Optimization. When I look up "site:example.com", the first result is the index page. The third result that pops up says the title is: "Read More". I want it to display like the 2nd result does. The 2nd result displays: "Suma Karandiar, M.A., LCPC - Counselors In Association" but I can't find any differences between the 2nd page and the first. What am I supposed to do to tell Google that I want a different title than what they are displaying? This is not the same as Title tag different from title appearing in Google? because that question is about Google rewriting titles based on searches. In this case "Read More" is the title used for all searches.


Is it possable to see were a t.co link was originaly posted / refered from?

We get quite allot of referal traffic from t.co/ links showing up in Google Analytics, which is great, but with any decent source of traffic its really helpful to be able to see where it was originally refereed to so you can try and recreate / capitalise on it. I guess its a shorted twitter link but past that i have no idea were i came from / who posted it, i took the link and pasted it into both Google and Twitter search but those both came back with no results, any ideas.. i know with bt.ly you can have link Analytics which is great from a marketing perspective, is there anything similar with t.co ?


Why are Win7 IE browers running in IE7 mode?

On our site we currently have approx. 50% of our IE7 users running Windows 7. However, Win7 was released with IE8 meaning that something is not right. Based on this, we made the assumption that the modern IE browsers enter IE7 compatibility mode on our site. So we placed the "X-UA-Compatible=edge" meta tag on our site in hope to kill off IE7 support. However, after a week, the percentage of IE7 (and IE8) users have gone up for the first time since the start of this year. When looking at the X-UA-Compatible documentation, it is _meant_ to be used for putting your site into an _older_ mode.   * Is there any other way to make sure that IE doesn't enter compatibility mode?   * Is there something else we need to look for? And yes, we have so many users on our site that we can't kill off IE7 until it goes down under 2% of unique visitors. EDIT: We use `<!doctype html>` EDIT2: We haven't been able to reproduce the compatibility mode in our environments either


SEO Impact of ASCII Signature in a Webpage

I would like to add an ASCII Art signature (about 4000 characters) in a comment at the top of my webpage with my website link and a small strapline in it. This would give people looking at the source a little treat and let them know who built it. Would there be any impact for SEO in doing this (plus evidence)?


issue with Domain, DNS and Hosting

I bought domains from GoDaddy.   I bought hosting from NFS.   I changed my DNS from GD to NFS. Do I require to host DNS on NFS for website to work properly, or can I host DNS back on GD? I am paying for DNS to GoDaddy already. And now NFS is charging me too.


Which word is searched for more in the world, and locally?

I have two words:   * fishing   * fish I want to know:   1. which word is searched for more in the world,    2. more in Africa   3. more in south africa   4. more in Namibia  How do you check this? The search engine I am interested in is Google, but if more search engines can easily be checked, that would be great too.


Can't center a ul with css

Guys I'm trying to center this simple ul here. Any idea on whats wrong ? Css:               ul {         margin-left: auto;         margin-right: auto;     }          li {         display: inline;         background-color: gray;         color: white;         list-style: none;         margin: 5px;         padding: 5px;     }      JSP/HTML: > >
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Login
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Option2
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Optino3
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JMeter: how to asign a single distinct value from CSV Data Set Config to each thread in thread group?

I have to make a load test for a relatively large number of users so I cant really use User Parameters pre-processor to parametrize each thread with custom user data. I've read that I should use CSV Data Set Config instead. However I run into a problem with how JMeter interprets the input of this Config. Example: I have a thread group of 3 threads and Loop Count:10 with one HTTP request sampler with server `www.example.com` and path: `\${user}`. The csv file (bullet is a single line in file) for CSV Data Set Config to extract the user parameter:   * 1   * 2   * 3   * 4   * 5 Expected output is that for thread 1-x the path of the request should be: \x. So the output file should consist of 10 samples per thread namely:   * for thread 1-1 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\1`   * for thread 1-2 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\2`   * for thread 1-3 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\3` but instead i get requests to each \1 - \5 and then to EOF. Does anyone know how to achieve the expected effect with CSV Data Set Config in jmeter 2.9?


Open source portal suited for enterprise websites

I'm doing some evaluation on Liferay vs JBoss GateIn Looking for community info on which is better suited from points of view of:   * Performance   * Features OOTB   * In-life maintenance I'm looking for **practical views (real-life sites)** or any gotchas you have come across in your own projects. I asked this on prog.se, but been asked to try here. Hope this is on-topic for this site


Comment system which can integrate with existing website

I need third party commenting system for ASP.Net website, preferably free or pay one time fee for the code. I need the commenting system to be integrate with website login, so that users no need to login again to post comments. I checked Disqus Single sign on(SSO), however it charges monthly fee for SSO. Could you suggest any other alternative?


Problem with choices.truste.com/ca

When I was reviewing my own website I keep getting a message Do you want to open or save ca.js from http://choices.truste.com/ca I have tried to ban adverts from this domain, but worrying message persists. Any advice on how to deal with this annyoyance greatfully received.


Capitalise first letter of each word good or bad practice?

Is it a good practice to capitalise first letter of each word in string ( page titles, headings, fields labels, button text etc.) ? Is there any articles about this subject excluding basic English grammar rules?


Am I correctly handling duplicate URLs for my homepage?

I own a Job Search site named www.conservationjobboard.com and have a concern about how the domain is viewed by search engines. The issue is that when the site was first designed, the default page was left as default.php, but the homepage was actually JobBoard.php. To handle this, the default.php page performed a redirect to the JobBoard.php file when www.conservationjobboard.com/ was requested. The main problem resulted because the redirect was a temporary redirect causing search engines to index conservationjobboard.com/ and conservationjobboard.com/JobBoard.php as 2 separate pages. This has since been corrected to use the .htaccess file so that JobBoard.php is now the default file for the root directory eliminating the need for the redirect. Problem is that search engines still show both URL's in search results (one including JobBoard.php and one that ends with /). Another potential problem is that some of my early backlinks are to conservationjobboard.com/JobBoard.php while the rest are to conservationjobboard.com The 2 outstanding questions are as follows: 1. Is my domain still being penalized by search engines like Google for having duplicate homepage URL's? 2. Are all of the back links to my homepage being considered as the same now or is the total number of back links being split between the 2 different URL's? If you think there are still issues with how we have this set-up, I was wondering if you could give me advice on what we should do differently. Thanks.


Can you /should you learn SEO techniques

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