In Google Analytics, how can I determine the value of a page if no goals or revenue have been determined?

I have 4 years of data in Analytics with over 20 million pageviews for the entire site. No goals have ever been set up, and while the site is an ecommerce site, no ecommerce features in Google Analytics have ever been taken advantage of. So I have no way to determine what the actual value of a page is. I've been tasked with determining if a particular page on the site is worth keeping around. How might I use all standard data (pageviews, bounce rate, time on page, time on site, etc.) to help determine the value of this page? I really appreciate any help I can get!


Shared group calendar for ASP.NET

Can anyone point me towards a free group calendar solution in ASP.NET VB? Basically anyone in the company should be able to access it from their computer and make changes to it. I would assume its MSSQL sever based. ETA: It doesn't HAVE to be VB, C# or Silverlight would be OK, however I'm not too hot on either of those languages myself.


What is the difference between a homepage link with or without a trailing slash?

What is the difference between these two URLs:   * `http://example.com/`   * `http://example.com` Should we always add the final `/` or avoid it? Does it make a difference?


Redirect primary domain to parked domain

The problem is as follows: We already have registered domain name (example.com.hr) via a Croatian domain name provider. During the web hosting registration process, the registrar doesn't offer a field where I can input my own domain name, and basically forces me to register a .com domain name. Is there a way to redirect from the primary domain to a parked domain, or somehow register with Google and instruct them to absolutely ignore my primary domain to avoid any bad ranking issues? I guess I can do a redirect with PHP headers since I'll have WordPress installed, but I'm not sure how this affects SEO.


How to track Jwplayer video events with Universal Analytics?

What code do I add to Jwplayer javascript to get events like what video is playing, when it was watched to the end, watched in full display window and such?


How to keep track of backlinks?

I am operating an internal website to which other internal websites are linking through deep-links. Currently, when I alter my website, I go out and search for corresponding links other sites, and try to update them or inform the webmaster. I'm searching for an efficient workflow to help me keep track of the inbound links, so that I can change the links. I cannot run link-checkers on the other websites, but in terms of attracting visitors it is in my own interest to keep the inbound links up to date. My website is sitting in Sharepoint. I was thinking of keeping a spreadsheet with all the links and pages they are on. Another option just occurred to me: check in the Sharepoint logs for calls to dead links together with the originating (referrer URL) and the go and fix it (basically "on demand")... but I don't know how to do it in Sharepoint 2013. Any suggestion/idea is most welcome. Maybe there is even a software for this task.


Improve site with SEO microdata

I need to do SEO Microdata for one site. What is my biggest problem is to choose which type would be on this list http://schema.org/docs/full.html . So let's say that I should choose the type of portfolio, and link the portfolio is as follows: Code: `<a href = "#" data-remote = "images/portfolio/image1.jpg" class = "portfolio- box" data-toggle = "lightbox" data-gallery = "I" data-title = "Image1"> </ a>` because the problem of slip-propery is in this link, img, logo, ... Do you like this could be used itemtype "http://schema.org/Product" and how strictly it should all be, if there is more than one type of a section of the site or there is only one appropriate? Thank you in advance ..


Are Amazon affiliate links bad for SEO?

Example:   For a PC game review website would it be bad for SEO to have one Amazon affiliate link in addition to the game review? Since these links would be coded in the form of `<iframe>` would adding a `rel="nofollow"` be of much benefit? Lets say they were not `iframe` links and regular `<a href="">link</a>`. A respected SEO equated affiliate links to "poison" for rankings and recommended they be pulled to a separate domain or buried deeper in the site away from root. So is it better to just remove all affiliate links and not risk any penalty from Google? I have looked around and not really been able to find a direct answer to this from Google. Here is some information I did find:   * http://moz.com/blog/getting-seo-value-from-your-affiliate-links   * http://www.nichepursuits.com/how-to-get-a-google-penalty-using-affiliate-links-and-how-to-recover


Determine domain name registered in a name server

Suppose I have a new nameserver that is set up to associate my domain name with the IP address of my new web server (but isn't a nameserver for my domain name yet). My domain name is still using with my old nameserver which provides the IP of my old web server. How can I test that my new name server will redirect to the correct IP address before I switch my domain to using the new name server?


Pages Crawled Per Day in Google Webmaster Tools

What determines the pages crawled per day graph in Google webmaster tools? It shows that It has a maximum of 2701 pages. However, the maximum number of pages on my website is not more than 300. How can this be possible? How to explain the spike on the graph (from 100 to 2700) without any actual change in site structure or increase in the number of pages? ![webmaster Tools Pages Crawled Per Day](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mVZtN.png)


Is it necessary to submit sitemap to www and non www?

I have submitted my website to Google Webmaster Tools with both `www` and with `no-www`. I had made the domain without `www` to my preffered domain and have submitted a sitemap. My question is should I also submit a sitemap to the one whit `www`?


How to ignore certain coding standard errors in PHP CodeSniffer

We have a PHP 5 web application and we're currently evaluating PHP CodeSniffer in order to decide whether forcing code standards improves code quality without causing too much of a headache. If it seems good we will add a SVN pre-commit hook to ensure all new files committed on the dev branch are free from coding standard smells. Is there a way to configure PHP codeSniffer to ignore a particular type of error? or get it to treat a certain error as a warning instead? Here an example to demonstrate the issue:               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html>     <head>         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />     </head>     <body>     <div>         <?php         echo getTabContent('Programming', 1, $numX, $numY);              if (isset($msg)) {             echo $msg;         }         ?>     </div>     </body>     </html>      And this is the output of PHP_CodeSniffer:               > phpcs test.php           --------------------------------------------------------------------------------     FOUND 2 ERROR(S) AND 1 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 3 LINE(S)     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------       1 | WARNING | Line exceeds 85 characters; contains 121 characters       9 | ERROR   | Missing file doc comment      11 | ERROR   | Line indented incorrectly; expected 0 spaces, found 4     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------      I have a issue with the " _Line indented incorrectly_ " error. I guess it happens because I am mixing the PHP indentation with the HTML indentation. But this makes it more readable doesn't it? ( _taking into account that I don't have the resouces to move to a MVC framework right now_ ). So I'd like to ignore it please.


Money exchange field

It was on hold for over 1.5 hour even after I made changes, so here again. I am making a money exchange website. On my homepage there will be 2 fields, The first field is a Bitcoin field and the other is a $ field. I want to do the following: If a visitor enters an amount in the "Bitcoin" field then the value of that bitcoin should be appeared in the $ field in dollars, by taking the data from mtgox.com + my compensation. A good example of this is the following site: https://bitonic.nl/ Someone goes to the website and enters an amount on one of the fields and the other field is calculated automatically. Does someone have a code ready to do this


Using scaled images or using same image everywhere?

I have an image lets say 300px*300px I am using 3 different sizes of it on my site 100px*100px, 200px*200px, 300px*300px. What will be the best for SEO. Using same images everywhere or using 3 images with different sizes.


Advice for using Google AdSense

The banners on my website are generated by `$.ajax()` call to the server after the page load is complete (`$(window).load()` event). I want to to integrate ads from google to fill in empty banners when there is no active campaign associated to them. I know that using ajax to place the AdSense code after the page load is complete is a violation of the AdSense Program Policies. Is it legal (in terms of that program politics) to place the AsSence code as a default in all the banners on my website, and after the ajax request, remove unnecessary banners and replace them with banners from my own advertising management system? I couldn't find a straight answer to this issue, and I don't want to change the logic of my CMS to be able to use google adsense in my website.


Make DotNetNuke Multilingual

I have a site with DotNetNuke and I want to create content available in different languages. I was checking the DNN options and I can choose a language, but it doesn't change my content. Not even the "login" button has changed. Is there a way to make a multilingual site with DotNetNuke?


Sitemap tool fails to find all URLs in my site

* I added my url to Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html   * I added a meta tag with description and keywords   * I added it in Google web master tools and submit the site map   * There is no any robots in my site But when I create the sitemap.xml automatically with http://www.xml- sitemaps.com/ or other tools they don't find all the pages! Are there any better tools, how can I fix the problem?


Any negative consequences of linking from a wordpress site to another site that uses ASP pages

A client of mine had a blog that utilized ASP pages for some content. Recently they moved their site to a Linux-based server and installed Wordpress. They did not want to have all the ASP pages rewritten in PHP, so instead they are linking to a separate website for some pages. My question is this, does this have any negative impacts on the main Wordpress website? My primary concern is SEO but if any other concerns come to mind I'm all ears.


Allowing customers to edit static website via WYSIWYG

I've set a few clients up with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Contribute to edit static html content. Add the comments to prevent them from causing too much damage and it works okay:
stuff the user can edit
           So my questions:   1. Are there any Contribute competitors that are worthwhile?   2. Are there any Contribute competitors that don't require a piece of desktop software?   3. Are there any Contribute competitors that work on mobile (iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry?)


Change the domain name pointing in Google Apps

I need advice about my website which is hosted in Google Apps (free plan). Currently I use a domain name called "A" and have already added another domain name called "A+" as a secondary domain in my Google Apps account. I set my email accounts with this "A" and "A+" domain name. How do I set the domain name "A" so when my web visitor accesses it, it will automatically forward to the "A+" website? Will my emails still work properly without any problem?


Website images stop loading

I have a website at `www.bdgregg.com`. The website was once hosted on a different server. I have moved the site to a new server. Everything remains the same as far as site content, images etc. However the images have stop loading for the different products. I have reloaded the database dump, re-uploaded images folder... but still the images will not load. It even appear as it the images are corrupt in some form. I am not sure why this would happen when the same files worked on another server without problems.


Changing default browser font-size affecting 3 divs floated inside a header div

Changing a web browsers default font size from 16px adversely affects the layout of the 3 divs that I have floated within my header div. Considering that the 3 header divs are fixed elements and not part of the site content or navigation as such, would it be better for me to fix the font size of the text in each div? The affected site is here, if you change your browsers default font size to 15 or 17, for example, then you will notice that the positioning of the 3 divs becomes badly affected. I presume that this is due to me implementing the div floating incorrectly, the content div is configured the same as the header div but resizes elegantly if the font size is decreased or increased. The other alternative would be for me to just implement an image rather than divs containing heading text but I would then lose the SEO benefits that the non-graphical text provides. Many thanks in advance, Andy


WHMCS for subscription based server or alternative

I have been recently looking for a PHP billing system similar to the one used by a lot of webhosts - WHMCS. What we provide is an online profile for companies to market themselves to their potential audience. To do so there is a fee of £20/m or £200/y. What I really like about WHMCS is that it manages your entire billing side for you.. the issue you I do have with it is that it's strongly related to web hosting, which we aren't. Also it doesn't seem that flexible to fit into our current system. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on any similar PHP systems, or whether WHMCS can be edited enough to do what I need it to do? Thanks :)


how will google treat http://yoursite.com/page?a=1 and http://yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different?

how will google treat yoursite.com/page?a=1 and yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different or same url. Or is there any solution i want google to treat same page but with different content. All though the meta tag will be same.


Present my all videos from a certain YouTube channel

I would like to make a page **on my site** that shows an embedded video player for **each** video in a certain YouTube channel. (I don't want to just link to YouTube's page for that channel) Preferably I would like some control over presentation. What's the best way to do this? If server programming is necessary, I would be most comfortable with a Perl solution but would be open to PHP, etc.


DNS Configuration when registrar and host are two different companies

I'm a total noob when it comes to DNS configuration. My client bought a domain through one company and is hosting their site with another (a virtual dedicated server). I can't find anything on the web that explains one's way through this setup. Where do I start? Which nameservers do I use? Which company's zone files do I edit? Basically it boils down, for me that I don't understand which company takes the lead, and which piggybacks off their configuration. Thanks in advance for the help.


subdomains apache rewrite rules

Let's say I have my web folder as public_html. In there I have a sub folder. I can view the folder at: `www.mydomain.com/sub` & `mydomain.com/sub` What I want is:               sub.mydomain.com      This will show the content of `public_html/sub`. How would I set up my rewrite rules to do this.


Buying a domain in other country: larger response times?

I bought a domain in a very well know provider of domains in USA (Godaddy). Now I want to use that domain for a site (local bussines) hosted in a server in Spain, and I'm wondering if I will get shorter response times if I have bought the domain in the same firm where I contract the hosting, or if search engines punish my site because of that.


Is it OK to block my javascript files in robots.txt?

Is it OK to block my javascript files in robots.txt, or can it hurt my website SEO-wise?


How to forward emails to my custom domain to my Gmail account?

I bought a domain without webspace and want to forward emails to that domain to my Gmail account. But I don't receive any emails which are send there, not even a return-to-sender-email. I also tried with another email provider and my company's email address. My hoster supports email forwarding, thus I activated it with the "catch all" option and added my 3 email addresses as target. The domain is configured with `www IN CNAME example.rhcloud.com`. There is no other configuration yet. Do I need to add MX entries? Or what else do I need to do? P.S.: Don't migrate this question to serverfault. They said I'm not allowed to ask questions, because I'm not a sysadmin...


Sitemap for multiple language site

I have a multiple site. For example: English language page: `mysite.com` And `mysite.com/en` Farsi language page: `mysite.com/fa` Japanese lanuage page: `mysite.com/jp` The content posts in English site (`mysite.com/en`) is different by posts in Japanese site (`mysite.com/jp`) and Farsi site (`mysite.com/fa`). Do I need to a saparate sitemap address for each language?


rich snippets ignored by google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why would Google Rich Snippets work for one site author but not another? I'm facing one problem here. I made rich snippets - microdata for the website but google ignores all of them. Here is how it looks like in testing tool . It doesn't detect any errors. I've read that google ignores the microdata in hidden fields. Unfortunately this is partially the case since I use jquery to interact with the contect, but nevertheless it is not hidden everywhere and I believe that google should recognize at least the microdata visible to the user permanently. Am I missing something here? It is now about 3 weeks since I updated website with rich snippets.


Tables in Google Analytics: calculating % of total in Google Analytics

I am analyzing two segments (based on an existing dimension) in a table in a Google Analytics dashboard and I want to know how to add a column and insert a calculation that calculates the % of Total each segment comprises of the total visits? Furthermore, is it possible to have a table with more than 3 columns? I can't seem to find a way to add more columns without adding additional widgets.


Are there any good reasons to intentionally serve a new web site in Quirks mode?

I was a little surprised that Amazon's site doesn't specify a doctype, and is rendered in quirks mode. What could possibly be the reason for this? I understand what quirks mode is and why doctypes were introduced, but I can't understand why this would be intentionally left off. I guess it might simplify markup if they're trying to support ancient browsers, but isn't that like shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to modern browsers, especially when their site is so Javascript rich? Does this level the playing field when it comes to supporting really old browsers? Is there something else I'm missing?


Moving large amounts of data between shared hosts

I recently acquired a client who is a photographer and was interested in moving web hosts since his current host had threatened to throw him off due to CPU spiking. The migration went fairly easily, with about 350MBs of website and media files. Then I discovered about 60GBs of client galleries he had failed to mention. I am unable to move this much data myself, since I'm capping out at about 20kb/s on the FTP connection. Has anyone encountered a situation where they needed to migrate this much data between cheap hosting? Should we contact the hosting companies about this (he is moving from Westhost to MediaTemple)?


jQuery/AJAX on old Computers/Browsers

I am working on a plattform that will have a lot of users in the so called "developing countries". So many of them will be using old computers and old browsers in tiny internet cafes. We want to make sure to give them a good user Experience and make sure the website loads as fast as possible. Problem is, that while you can save a lot of requeasts and time, using jQuery/AJAX, it also brings along a lot of Problems: - Will the Computers be powerfull enough to deal with the client side scripts? - Will the old Browsers handle jQuery? Does anyone have any experience with these sort of problems or might know of some sort of article on the topic?


Detecting Browser Types?

My client has asked me to implement a browser detection system for the admin login with the following criteria, allow these:   * Internet Explorer 8 or newer   * Firefox 3.6 or newer   * Safari 5 or newer for Mac only And everything else should be blocked. They want me to implement a page telling the user what browser they need to upgrade/switch to in order to access the CMS. **Basically I need to know the best way to detect these browsers with PHP, distinct from any other browsers, and I've read thatbrowser sniffing per se is not a good idea.** The CMS is WordPress but this is _**not**_ a WordPress question _(FYI I am a moderator on theWordPress Answers site.)_ Once I figure out the right technique to detect the browser I'm fully capable to make WordPress react as my client wants, I just need to know what the best ways are with PHP _(or worse case jQuery, but I much prefer to do on the server)_ to figure how what works and what doesn't. Please understand that _"Don't do it"_ is not an acceptable answer for this question. I know this client too well and when they ask me to implement something I need to do it _(they are a really good client so I'm happy to do what they ask.)_ Thanks in advance for your expertise. ### UPDATE This requirement is **for the admin console, not the public site** ; we'll support everything on the public site but we've heavily modified the WordPress admin console and we only want to have to test on the main three (3) browsers. So feature detection is not really relevant here; this is a testing and support requirement, not a requirement for supporting specific features. And the project does not have the funding to support all browsers; it's just not realistic when there are probably only going to be 25 or 50 users of the admin console in total. ### UPDATE #2 For the benefit of anyone with the same requirements here's the solution I came up with:               $min_versions = array(       'safari'  => 5,       'firefox' => 3.6,       'msie'    => 8,     );     $good_browser = false;     $user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);     if (preg_match("#applewebkit/.*?version/([0-9]+)\..*?safari/#", $user_agent, $match)) {       $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions['safari'];     } else {       foreach(array('firefox','msie') as $browser) {         if (preg_match("#{$browser}/([0-9]+)\.#", $user_agent, $match)) {           $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions[$browser];           break;         }       }     }     if (!$good_browser) {       // Do redirect to an upgrade page     }      And this is the solution packaged as a standalone file designed to be included in a WordPress plugin or by the `functions.php` file of a WordPress theme:               <?php     /* my-clients-browser-detect.php */          if (!class_exists('MyClients_BrowserDetector')) {       class MyClients_BrowserDetector {         static $min_versions = array(           'safari'  => 5,           'firefox' => 3.6,           'msie'    => 8,         );         static function admin_init() {           $good_browser = false;           $user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);           if (preg_match("#applewebkit/.*?version/([0-9]+)\..*?safari/#", $user_agent, $match)) {             $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions['safari'];           } else {             foreach(array('firefox','msie') as $browser) {               if (preg_match("#{$browser}/([0-9]+)\.#", $user_agent, $match)) {                 $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions[$browser];                 break;               }             }           }           if (!$good_browser) {             $pages = self::get_pages('page-upgrade-browser.php');             if (count($pages)==0) {               echo "
Please upgrade your browser to one of the following:

";               foreach(self::$min_versions as $browser => $version) {                 echo "
{$browser}: {$version}
";               }               echo "
";               exit;             }             $permalink = get_page_link(get_post($pages[0])->ID);             wp_safe_redirect($permalink,302);           }         }         static function get_pages($template) {           global $wpdb;           $sql = $wpdb->prepare("SELECT post_id FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE meta_key='_wp_page_template' AND meta_value='%s'",$template);           $pages = $wpdb->get_col($sql);           foreach($pages as $index => $page_id)             $pages[$index] = get_post($page_id);           return $pages;         }         static function on_load() {           add_action('admin_init', array(__CLASS__,'admin_init'));         }       }       MyClients_BrowserDetector::on_load();     }      As several people have mentioned feature detection is usually considered a better approach but for this use-case we really didn't have specific features we cared about, we had specific named browsers we cared about so feature detection wasn't a viable option. FYI, the client knows that we may have to revise this script in the future if we can false negatives or false positives. -Mike


Google webmaster for Adult site

I am developing an adult wallpaper website. My question is can I use Google Webmaster Tools? Please tell me the benefit or disadvantage.


How important is responsive web design?

I've heard a variety of opinions regarding the pros and cons of using responsive web design recently and was wondering whether it was necessary for small businesses that target small geographical areas to implement responsive web design? Some sub-questions I have regarding this include:   1. Is it better to use responsive web design as opposed to having separate code utilized for different dimensions/devices?   2. Can it potentially affect SEO (positively or negatively)?   3. What are the main problems I could run into when optimizing a website for a business using this design method?


Setting up a LAMP VM server for Development and Testing?

**Info:** I would like to set up a VM server on my local computer which will serve pages in the exact same way as my current hosting (but only to me on my local computer). I currently pay a big web hosting company to host my website & web store and they are doing a great job, but I would like to be able to work on my Web site and its corresponding MySQL DB, HTML, and PHP code without being at risk of messing something completely up on the live servers. My current plan of action:   1. Set up a VM webserver with Debian, MySQL, PHP, Apache.   2. Copy web store (PHP/HTML) code to VM server.   3. Copy my current MySQL databases from my hosting provider and install on VM server.   4. Modify and test new features on VM server.   5. Upload MySQL DB and HTML/PHP code back to web host's server where it should work as before but with new modifications. **Questions:** Now I'm pretty sure I have steps one and two down correctly but I can't for the life of me figure out how to proceed next, so here are my questions. I have my /etc/host file set up so www.MySite.test redirects to the IP address of the local VM webserver. Once I import my PHP/HTML files and MySQL file whats the best way to navigate around the fact that all of my files and DBs will reference www.MySite.com. I can export my MySQL dbs but do I also have to export my MySQL users and passwords to access those db or are those coded into my html/php code?


Retrieving Monthly Hits From Google Analytics

What I want to do is grab the last 5 months including the current months hits for that month. I have only just copied the tracking code and plugged it into my site but after that I'm not sure what to do.


Unable to track a subdomain with google analytics

I have a download page on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) and I'm tracking the "virtual page view" to the download following these instructions . That part works fine. However, I also want to track the index page at downloads.easyjob.net and that's where I got into trouble: it gives me the same number of pageviews ass the entire site on www.easyjob.net, which is clearly not possible. Anybody knows what's going on?


How useful is Alexa's ranking?

I know of Alexa and some people find the information useful for ranking a website... as for me, no matter how big or small my sites are, none of them are registered with stats on them, and a few clients are _disappointed_ with me over it.   * How much influence does Alexa have on website's worth?   * Why do people hold it's stats so highly over content of the actual site in question?   * Should I actually worry about Alexa Ranking? All of the stats which I do worry about is what Google Analytics, Webmasters Tools, and Piwiki on my server tells me. Usually I can gauge how good or bad I am doing with those alone for what sections of the site is active and which is not receiving traffic for the purpose of my content.


My site isn't ranking of Alexa

My site is online for more than 3 months now but I don't have Alexa rank. I don't understand why. Could anyone explain this to me?


Softonic displaying Google Ads for my software in Google search

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but not sure where else to ask.. I was doing a Google search to check the results of my Software's name which I sell on my website. I found, Google displayed an Ad from Softonic.com for that keyword. And worse, Softonic was linking to a page where they asked users to download their software-installer to download my software and NOT my software! We have neither asked Softonic nor Softonic had informed us regarding that Ad and their installer. Can someone please tell me if such Ads are allowed by Google Adwords? And does it violate Adwords TOS? Thanks in advance!


Hide your website links from search engne

My Website Link is posted in someone else website, i asked for removal but can't get reply, google crawl his website and my website link is posted on that how to control that is that is possible? i ask to him , he said he will remove when he will got time, they are using application version 1 (which not allowed to edit content app 2 allow to edit i ask him to upgrade they said don't have time)


Can I safely include "self-defined" HTML Tags in a HTML Website?

I have seen a website that has a doctype of               <!DOCTYPE html>      This website uses HTML Tags that I have never seen before like `<section>`. My Question: 1.) Is this kind of "generic Doctype" recommended for a normal website? (I've never seen this this before, what are the pro and cons?) 2.) When is it valid to use such "self defined" HTML Tags? Is this valid with this doctype Declaration?


How to promote the quality/security of your a website to your its customers?

Our organization is building a Drupal web platform that we aim at reselling as a cloud service. In order to provide our customers with maximum confidence in our solution, we're looking at ways of publicly conveying trust regarding the quality and security of our platform. Here is what we came up with some far: - **Drupal** : are there any Drupal certifications available out there? - **PHP** : have your PHP developers certified (e.g. Zend PHP certification) and display the certification image (ideally, create links from the About/Team/Dev page to a page on the zend website where this could be verified). - **SSL** : buy certificates from sizable CAs (e.g. Verisign) instead of cheaper and not as known ones (e.g. prontossl.com) and display the CA seal on your website accordingly. - **System** : have your system penetration tested by a known security company, have a case study written about it. - **Infrastructure** : get your infrastructure ISO QMS 9001 certified. - **HTML/CSS** : show that your company is doing everything it can to remain standard-compliant by making your code W3 compliant and showing the W3 valid icons on your website. - **Misc** : get your engineers to pass some security certifications, like one of these.          **Are there anything else you can think of that could help promote the quality/security of your platform?** PS: if you're planning on answering with a _"what really matters is the actual quality/security of your solution more than how good/secure it appears to be"_ type of answer please refrain. We all know it's true, but we also know that from a sales standpoint, it is very important to be able to rely on certifications to efficiently promote quality/security.


HTML 5 - Backward Compatibility with new Tags and CSS?

In case I will use any of the new HTML5 Tags like:               <article> or <section> ...      with a doctype of               <!DOCTYPE html>      1.) Can I directly assign a style to this element like:               <article style="margin:100px;"> ?      http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-article-element The W3C link does not explain this really well for HTML5 very dummy friendly. 2.) In case this is allowed, what is a browser expected to render, if the browser does not support the tag (=does not support html5) . Will it render it as div (and apply the CSS) or will the tag be completly omitted and therefore also the applied CSS formatting is lost? Thanks very much! Jens


Where to get ads for my website?

My website is getting around 100 visitors per day so I was thinking that I should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. Is Google adsense a good choice? Will google adsense allow me to open an account there with such little traffic on my website? Please help from last two months I have done a very hard work to bring such traffic. I know it is not very much but I am still working on it.


Mediawiki much slower in Firefox

I've a couple of Mediawiki (1.19.1 with Vector Skin) sites on Dreamhost shared hosting and I've found that access trough Firefox is much slower than trough Chrome. For example at this moment, after cleaning the cache in both browsers: **Firefox**   * 11.1 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges)   * 7.7 seconds for the second page (Home) **Chrome**   * 9.2 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges)   * 3.2 seconds for the second page (Home) This numbers confirm previous tests, made in 2 different days a few weeks ago. Please note the huge difference for the second page. An older version of Mediawiki on a different server does not seem to have this problem. Firefox and Chrome have similar results. I need to know how to make access trough Firefox as fast as trough Chrome, without changing the hosting company/plan, Mediawiki or asking users to change Firefox's defaults. _**_* HTTP RESPONSE HEADERS _*_**               HTML FILE HEADERS     Cache-Control   private, must-revalidate, max-age=0, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Language    es     Content-Type    text/html; charset=UTF-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:11 GMT     Expires Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding,Cookie     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff     X-Frame-Options DENY          CSS FILE HEADERS     Cache-Control   public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Type    text/css; charset=utf-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:17 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Last-Modified   Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:59:38 GMT     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff          JAVASCRIPT FILE HEADERS:     Cache-Control   public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Type    text/javascript; charset=utf-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:14 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Last-Modified   Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:55:25 GMT     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff          IMAGE FILE (PNG) HEADERS:     Accept-Ranges   bytes     Cache-Control   max-age=2592000, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Length  206     Content-Type    image/png     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Etag    "ce-4c25eaaf8f780"     Expires Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=99     Last-Modified   Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:22:38 GMT     Server  Apache


Is it a problem (e.g. for Google) when my site has no root page?

I have a multi-lingual site, which contains languages in this manner:               http://www.example.com/en/     http://www.example.com/de/     http://www.example.com/fr/      To avoid duplicate links, is it ok **not to** have the root (`/`) page? I.e., the root 301 redirects to `/en/`:               $ curl -I http://www.example.com/     HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Location: /en/      Does Google mind, or should I mind? Does anyone?


Is there any problem with using two slashes in the middle of a URL?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What does the double slash mean in URLs? I'm working on a mod_rewrite URL structure as follows:               http://example.com/search/filter1/filter2/filter3/filter4      There are some conditions where it is OK for the first attribute to be blank, but i want to keep the other attributes in the same position. (Otherwise I can't assume that the attribute in the second position represents what I want it to represent.) However this results in some URLs like this:               http://example.com/search//filter2/filter3/filter4      This seems to work in all browsers I've tested (Chrome,Firefox,IE9,IE compatible) and I'm not seeing any errors on the server side, so I can't think of any problems in using it. But it just looks wrong and weird to me and I'm not used to seeing it. Are there any potential downsides to using a structure that encourages URLs like this, or any major reasons no one seems to use it? (Everything I search in Google assumes I'm talking about the two slashes after `http:`)


What is this thing called?!?! (bottom of screen popup)

I am looking for the name and some possible jquery libraries etc for the standard bottom of screen popup bar. Its like a little bar that pops out on the bottom of the screen after X seconds or however really - generally slides up, about 50px or so high, and usually the length of the main container. used for some form of coupon advertisement or various promotion text etc. What is the proper term for this item, and would there be any good references to best-use guidelines?


Google Analytics Not Detecting Tracking Code

I installed google analytics tracking code on my website. It is not being detected on the google analytics app. I did notice though that the default url in the google analytics app is set to `http://jobrangers.com` and my site redirects to `http://jobrangers.com/en`. Can someone please assist me in getting the tracking software on Google to pick up the installed tracking code. Thanks


Benefits of sharing one IP, or prefarably assigning a new IP?

I think I am lost but not found yet, please as regards this very topic; my issue was that I bought a new VPS using WHM optimised and it's just one domain meaning one IP. All I want to know is the benefit with sharing one IP to many domains I created for the users (remembering the IP is for the root) or is it of a disadvantage? Probably help me too with knowing if it's prefarable to create/assign a new IP to each new domain created for users?


Does Wordpress have any SEO benifits on sites coded from scratch?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website? I have heard SEO experts suggest moving sites to Wordpress for SEO optimization. Googling offers some perspectives that confirm this (like this or somewhat more dubiously, this). Is this accurate? Some other places say that it doesn't matter, except that Wordpress configures all the meta correctly. In that case, what exactly must be configured?


CSS style is gone on the homepage in IE8

I wondered if it's because the homepage's size is big? I only see my stylesheet working on pages other than the homepage. Any ideas?


Slugs: are human-friendly or SEO-friendly URLs better?

Well, I have a co-worker (actually my superior) who often sets his articles' slugs to expected / relevant search terms such as:               keywordA-keywordB-keywordC-keywordD-keywordE      I usually make mine closer to the article's title, e.g.:               robber-robs-XYZ-bank-10-million      He claims placing only the expected search terms as the slug led to better SEO and that SEO is more important than a human-friendly URL. What do you think of the balance between human-friendly and SEO-friendly URLs and does littering your slugs with a few expected keywords actually lead to better SEO? Lastly, what is the recommended practice?


Best way to display a long list of items, SEO-wise?

I have a list of ~1000 items I'd like to display to the user. The items has a rank - from 0.5 to 5 stars. My goal is to come with a solution that will be easy to navigate, and smart SEO wise. First option is to divide one long page into 'stars' section - starting from "items with 5 stars" and descending. I could add internal section links for the different sections at the top of the list. I guess that's the best for the user, but then I'd be losing navigation stats I would otherwise gain, having the list divided into different pages. Especially, I hate to lose pages with the titles / urls "Top x items" or "Bottom x items".. The best solution might be having the internal links listed in google as seperate urls, but is this even possible? Otherwise I might have this one long list, and then duplicates of at least the top and bottom of the list in different pages. But then I have duplicate content which is, as I understand, not very wise SEO wise. **Concrete questions:** **1. Is it possible to have internal section links in one page listed in Google as seperate URLs?** **2. Will having duplicate pages which display a portion of what's already being displayed in a one long page be an advantage or disadvantage SEO-wise?** (Given that the possible titles/urls for these duplicate pages has a good SEO potential).


How to change Google results

I've made a website for a client. I've used WordPress. The problem is, that when you type the page's name in Google, you get two results:   1. Comments for [pagename]   2. Sample page (the one that WordPress makes by itself) How do I make Google get the new sites and change those results? I'm new to SEO.


How can I check Page Authority & Domain Authority for multiple sites at the same time?

I am looking for a web tool that can check more than one site at a time for both Page Authority & Domain Authority. Please let me know if there is such a tool.


Adsense: You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue

Got an alert on my adsense account which says > You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue. The > following ad units have made ad requests with incorrect site information. > This occurs when the URL of the server from which the ad unit has been > served differs from the URL of the actual page where the ad will be > displayed. Learn how to fix these errors. So the solution is that I'll have to use "google_page_url = "http://myurl.com/fullpath";" I'm using wordpress, what should be the URL for google_page_url? For example my website is www.technostall.com. Should I put www.technostall.com there or should I give the path of each post? That is not good because I'm using a sidebar widget for sidebar ad unit. I can't change google_page_url for each page. What should I do? This error is appearing only on my sidebar/navigation ad units. Is using google_page_url = document.location; fine?


Facebook referral traffic spike - who shared our post?

My organization's blog got a MAJOR spike in traffic to one blog post yesterday. We can see in our Google Analytics that `facebook.com` and `m.facebook.com` were the by far the top referrers. I can't seem to be able to drill down deeper in Google Analtyics to see who shared the blog post URL on Facebook. We suspect a large media/publishing agency must have posted it to their Facebook fans. We are just curious to see who may have done this for us. Given we know the blog post URL, is there any way to see if it has been shared recently on Facebook? **EDIT:** I've gotten this far with FQL: `SELECT user_id FROM like WHERE object_id="ID"` which gives me ID's of people that have liked the blog post. It gives me only 100 ID's. How can I ask for ID's that are fan/business pages and not regular ole' people?


Public/Private Key Generation

I'm just learning about public key cryptography and I want to make a public key certificate for my web server so that I can use https. My server is hosted on some random free webhost that is practically impossible for anything...and so my question is this: Is there any harm in making my private key, public key, and public key certificate on my computer using openssl and then transferring it to the server? Thanks in advance. Also if there's anything else I'm missing, any help would be appreciated.


Why does AdSense require sufficient content?

I get that to apply for an AdSense account, a website needs to already have "sufficient content". As you can guess my website, being brand-new, did not. I am not disputing that fact, so I do not think this is a duplicate with other questions that do. I do however wonder why this is a policy? I guess their reasoning MIGHT be because Google wants to uphold a sense of quality in the content they support. A practically blank website is not quality content (yet). But isn't this a Catch 22? Creating quality content takes time (and thus money). Without ad-revenue to back this up, it's not easy to justify the expense (to my wife mostly, but that is beside my point :) )? Compare with YouTube where you can apply for a partner account having uploaded 0 videos. Another reason might be that they won't know what ads to show on an "empty website", but seems to me they could just as well pick something "random, but safe" themselves... If anyone has an authoritative answer (based on information from Google or personal experience) I'd be happy to hear it.


Trendmicro clones authenticated requests - showing up in my error logs

I'm having various errors, from unauthenticated requests for using some AJAX requests (which need authentication). While I have clients from Belgium, the IP addresses match a IP in the form of `150.70.*.*`, all are using Windows XP and IE 6 or IE 8. When I do a lookup, I receive this: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php Which means that it originates from Japan and it's a static IP from trendsmicro.com, a security suite. Any idea if I can blacklist this? I'd like to keep my errors close to zero. But this is one I can't solve without blacklisting the IP range. What should I do and what does trendsmicro try to do when cloning the request?


SEO benefit of H1 tags on the homepage

I've been told by an SEO specialist that, although every other page on a website has `<h1>` tags highlighting the correct headings for that page, that there needs to be one on the homepage, too. I'm dubious about this as the homepage should only rank for people searching for the company name directly -- which it already does perfectly (not least because the company name is their domain name). Obviously I don't see the harm in putting an exception in for that one page, but I also don't see the point, especially when I have lots of other more important things to be getting on with. Are there any SEO benefits to adding a `<h1>` element to the homepage, given that Google is already finding the company name perfectly well?


Good practice for watermarking/trademarking a website

When developing a website for a client, is it considered normal/proper etiquette to include an inconspicuous link to the developer's own website at the bottom of the client's website? In case that wording is too weird, say I'm developing a website for a company. Would it be respectable if I included my own logo, unobtrusively, in the footer of their website?


Could the rel="author" just be a username?

I want to use `rel="author"`, however the type of blog I run is about a game, and doesn't relate to my real identity. I'm more known for my screen name, so would this still be okay to use for the `rel="author"` tag? For example, if my Google+ account is for my user, and not for myself, could I still use it within the `rel="author"` tag? I don't want to get penalized in any sort of way. My main reason to do this, is to improve click through rate, and just make my blog post sections look better in the searches.


How to enable media queries on IE < 9

I am trying to add support for media queries in older versions of Internet Explorer, but I am not having any luck. I only need media queries, so I do not want to add a big package like Modernizr, I am looking for a small fix, if there is any. Anyone know a good method?


Hybrid-Hosting, how can I host one subdomain of existing site on second server?

I have a domain like `www.example.com`, with a subdomain like `sub.example.com`. They are hosted by ex: Bluehost. Which steps should I follow to just host `sub.example.com` on a second Server (AWS S3)?


How to use rel=canonical with Sitecore aliases?

I have inherited a Sitecore architecture that is a mess from an SEO duplicate content POV. There are multiple aliases that have been created (and indexed by the search engines) for many of the 2nd tier pages of the site. Due to server issues, I am not able to 301 redirect these duped pages, so I would like to use the rel=canonical tag in an attempt to try and get Google/Bing to recognize the correct pages I would like to appear in the index. I have blocked the most extraneous duped pages with a robots.txt file, however, since Google/Bing have already spidered many of the duped pages, I need to keep them accessible to the spiders, BUT removed from the index. The catch is, since the duped pages are aliases (and don't really physically exist in Sitecore that I can find), I am not sure how to go about using rel=canonical - or if I even can in this situation..?


Is there any way to determine who placed an AdWords ad?

I was in the process of discussing with a client using adwords for their next step of promotion and no-one at the company was aware of the system, and certainly hadn't created any adwords campaigns, however in the midst of the discussion and trying a few relevant search queries out, one of the ads in the ad block on the right hand pane was for their website. Is there any way of determining if the ad was somehow generated of is it definitely the case that someone had to consciously take the ad out and if so who might have placed it? They have no referral system so someone outside of the company would get no benefit from running the ad


What are recommended password reset mecanisms?

All, I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:   1) User friendly;   2) Secure;   3) Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).


Where can i get photo collection for website/template

I'm developing website templates and wonder how to get (free or buy) photos of product sample for my templates. For example, collection if furniture, shirts, lingerie? Maybe you have preferences with affordable price. Please note that these images is going to be use in web templates for sale.


Website subscription service

I have a friend who has asked me to build a site for her that allows people to sign up for a monthly subscription service for a few dollars a month. The service will send them text messages throughout the month. Does anyone have any suggestions on open source software for signing up for a service like this? I have already researched how to send the messages and need advice on setting up the subscription service. I've worked with asp.net c# and php.


remove "items 1-9 of X" from google result

the results of my Magento based website's categories includes " **items 1 - 9 of X** " before the actual description of the category.   How can I get rid of this? In this snapshot, what I want to delete is the red rectangle ![snapshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Mjoiu.gif) **edits** :   @Su, these are the reason:   1. Having text like (Items 1 - 9 of 144 –) appear in a Google listing uses up the 25 word limit that Google allows us.   2. More importantly, the first few words of the description can persuade or dissuade someone from visiting my site. This text will not positively influence people to visit my site. @DisgruntledGoat this information shows up in the source code of that page, like this:

                         Items 1 to 9 of 144 total


How do I differentiate 404 messaging with no dynamic language ability on the web server?

Depending on the type of page visited (for example, “static” content vs. product page), we have a requirement to show different error messaging when the page requested is not found. Given that we are on a two tier architecture and have no dynamic language ability on the web servers, we are using HTTP status codes in the 400 range to display this messaging using the ErrorDocument setting in Apache configuration. These status codes, of course, show up in Google Webmaster tools as HTTP errors rather than not found errors and there is concern that these 400 range errors will not cause search engines to remove these pages from their indexes. Is there anyone else who has had this type of requirement with the limitation of no dynamic languages on the web server - and if so - have you solved this problem differently? Thanks


How to block domain access?

I'm studying AWStats in my server and I see no interesting domain access. How can I block it with htaccess or another solution


How to make my own web comic site like xkcd?

If you all are nerds like me then you are aware of xkcd. If I wanted to go about creating my own web comic with a website layout similar to this one, then what would you recommend? Drupal (if so, also refer me to any non-default modules that I would need), WordPress, straight up html?


Chat like chat.meta.stackoverflow.com in my website

How can I create a chat room like http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/ in my PHP website? I am looking for a free solution. Please help...


All shorten url redirecting to linkbucks

I have seen most of shorten url like `http://owl.li/w6tUx` redirecting to linkbucks site. I see even google is using this service in their posts in facebook or google plus something like `http://goo.gl/Z7bY5C`. I am not sure why google like company is using services like linkbucks. Is this some kind of virus of something have affected my computer. Can someone please explain or please advise me what is the correct place to ask question like this?


Should limitstart=0 should be 301 redirected or have canonical tag to it

i have multiple categories with pagination. wherein limitstart=0 are there and is similar like category home page Wondering, should a 301 redirect through htaccess is advisable **or** shall i apply canonical tag to it Second, below is the htaccess code for it. Need comments, is the regex ok                RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)&limitstart=0$ [NC]      RewriteRule (.*) /$1?%1&%2 [R=301,L]      Thanks


Counter on website (visitors)

I got a feeling a client is going to ask me to implement a counter to show how many visitors visited the site. To me it looks very unprofessional but the next question the client is going to ask will be 'why?'. So what's a good reason to not implement this besides "it's unprofessional".


Host multimedia content

On the occasion of a new website, I'm looking for a reliable and inexpensive company to host a big volume of movies and pictures. I need around 1To to start knowing that it will grow each day. Do you have any company to advise ? Thank you.


Indexed webpages stopped rising, while Submited keep rising normally

Last months I have noticed a strange behaviour in Google's Webmaster Tools. Although I provide a valid Sitemap for my website, which is normally processed and without any issues from Google, while the number of Submitted Webpages keep rising (30.923 pages), the Indexed Pages don't rise anymore (26.819 pages since the end of January). Checking the Crawler Stats, everything seems normal and there are no Crawl Errors. There was no significant changes to the webpage these last months. Anyone noticed a similar issue and any possible suggestion?


How to tell Google to stop crawling my website via IP?

After a database server migration, I've noticed that GoogleBot started getting errors when trying to crawl my site. The reason seems to be that it is hitting my site via IP address (and due to my config setup, my PHP scripts try to hit the old database server, which has been shut down). When the site is accessed by correct hostname, it uses the new DB server. I can fix this by pointing the 'IP address' config to use the new DB server, but ideally I want to tell GoogleBot (and also Bing) to stop accessing via IP, and use hostname instead. Google Webmaster Tools also shows a lot of entries for 'sites linking in' to my website, which are actually listed as the IP address of my site, as if it were a different site. I do not want to lose SEO value by making the wrong move. Should I change my website to stop responding on IP address? Or set up HTTP redirects from `IP address/url` -> `hostname/url`? I already have "rel canonical" URLs which include the FQDN on a lot of my pages, but Google does not seem to respect them, or at least it continues to hit the IP address for those pages.


Google Pagespeed not recognizing minify, cache leveraging, etc

Recently, my sites score completely dropped in site optimization/speed in the Google Adsense rating system. When using **Google PageSpeed Insights** it tells me quite a few things. One being to leverage browser caching. I went into my .htaccess file and added this bit of code.               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##      After adding this code to my .htaccess file I retested my website and saw that it is now asking me to leverage a bunch of jquery plugins. Which I might add were not there prior to adding the code to the .htaccess. Google is also asking me to minify my CSS, HTML, and JS. Well, I downloaded a Wordpress plugin called **Better Wordpress Minify** , which is set to automatically minify HTML, CSS, and JS. After installing the plugin and retesting through Google Pagespeed I noticed that it is still asking me to minify a couple of things. Its asking me to minify the _customscript.js_ in my theme, and wants me to minify the HTML of my homepage. Google also asked me to compress my website so I downloaded **WP HTTP Compression** which seemed to compress almost everything except for two files: _modernizr.min.js, and customscript.js_. I know this is a lot of information to take in, and I am probably asking for a lot, but any help would be greatly appreciated.


htaccess URL rewriting

I want to redirect a request look like               mydomain.com/abc/def      to               mydomain.com/abc/index.php?q=def      where `abc` is a fixed directory name and `def` can be any string. How can I do this using `.htaccess`?


When is meta description still relevant?

I received this bit of advice about the meta description tag recently: > Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the > snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should probably use them. You > could just auto generate them from the first part of the question. The description tag exists in the header, like so: `<meta name="Description" content="A brief summary of the content on the page.">` I'm not sure why we would _need_ this field, as Google seems perfectly capable of showing the relevant search terms in context in the search result pages, like so (I searched for **c# list performance** ): ![google keyword highlighting](http://i.stack.imgur.com/U6Ht7.png) In other words, **where would a meta description summary improve these results?** We want the page to show context around the actual search hits, not a random summary we inserted! Google Webmaster Central has this advice: > For some sites, like news media sources, generating an accurate and unique > description for each page is easy: since each article is hand-written, it > takes minimal effort to also add a one-sentence description. For larger > database-driven sites, like product aggregators, hand-written descriptions > are more difficult. In the latter case, though, programmatic generation of > the descriptions can be appropriate and is encouraged -- just make sure that > your descriptions are not "spammy." Good descriptions are human-readable and > diverse, as we talked about in the first point above. The page-specific data > we mentioned in the second point is a good candidate for programmatic > generation. I'm struggling to think of any scenario when I would want the Google-generated summary, that is, actual context from the page for the search terms, to be _replaced_ by a hard-coded meta description summary of the question itself.


How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Short of actually having every different browser version installed, is there any tool or service that can provide a preview?


A tool for test webpages in older Browsers?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Hi, at the moment I develop a ASP.Net Page Community board. I have installed FF4, IE9 and Opera 10. A friend told me, my page looks bad in IE7 and maybe IE8. Is there a tool how I can look the page for IE7/8, FF2/3 and maybe Opera 9? You know, older versions of browsers without uninstalling my browsers.


I want the links in my HTML sitemap to be crawled but I do not want the sitemap in the SERPs

I have a website that has some pages and then it has a folder that has the majority of the pages. All the pages that exist in this folder could only be accessed by using my website search engine, then I created HTML and XML sitemaps so the search engines could find the pages that are inside this folder. This worked well as search engines got very happy and indexed pretty much the entire website. BUT the html sitemap is appearing in SERPs and besides wanting search engines to crawl it and follow the links I do not want it to be in the SERPs. What can I do so the links on my sitemap page are followed but it stops appearing in SERP's? I saw some link rel no index meta tags and robots no index meta tags that seemed to be "designed" for this but some websites say they do one thing and other websites say they do other things. I don't want to screw this up and have my pages not being indexed again because it will be a pretty bad setback. Besides this, when I made the sitemaps I made the XML and HTML and uploaded them to the server on the same day, it worked like a charm but if the xml sitemap is enough and i can remove the html sitemap with no negative impact to my number of indexed pages it would be a valid solution for me too because then i wouldn't have to bother with it appearing on SERP's so if anyone made this experience and has something to share it would be useful too.


Am I able to delete a domain name

I manage a number of domain names with Network Solutions. I've transferred out all the domains that are or will be used. However, there are some left which were bought speculatively and will never be used. Is it possible to have them deleted, that is, have the registrations deleted? Thanks for any help


How to make user-uploaded photos all a uniform size

I have a site where users upload photos taken from their digital cameras. I want the photos to appear as big as possible, almost take up the entire screen. I also want all the thumbnails, of various users, and blown up photos, to have a uniform size so the design works on my site and everything lays out properly. Is this possible, or am I going to be stuck with different sized pictures because some people turned the camera on it's side to take a picture and got a picture way taller than wider. Do the pictures need to be a certain file format, certain size, etc?


Does the number of visits matters for SEO?

Considering I have a website and I have millions of direct views (entering directly by URL, not by any other URL) and that there is no links to this site anywhere else (or that this views don't generate any external link to the site), will these visits increase my positioning in search engines such as Google? Are search engines capable of measuring direct visits rather than links from other pages?


Tracking AdWord ads with different text in Google Analytics

I'm trying to see how the text in my Google AdWords ads affects my metrics in Analytics. I have auto-linking enabled, so I figured I would be able to automatically see this in Analytics. Unfortunately, if I try to add a second dimension of Traffic Sources->Ad Content, the metrics are only split by the ad's Headline. Most of my tests are changing only the ads' descriptions... So I guess I need to add a tracking parameter like `?campaign=special_text` to my URLs? Or is there a way to see the ads split by ad descriptions? Should I add the full suite of utm_campaign/utm_medium/etc parameters? What's the proper way to track these ads which are mostly similar except the ad descriptions?


Apache Redirect to another folder, both within and outside document root

I've recently set up a home web/media server and having a few difficulties with a few of the settings. It's working fine for serving webpages etc but I've now reorganised the structure of the main document root and it's now playing hard to get. Current structure is:               -drive     --sites     ---live     ----siteA     ----siteB     ----siteC     ---dev     --media     ---films     ---series      What I'm trying to do is serve siteC when siteA/siteC is called. For example mydomain.com will present the files that are in siteA, this is fine. SiteB and SiteC do not have their own domains etc and I don't want them to be subfolders of SiteA so what I'd like is for mydomain.com/siteB to serve up the content that is in siteB and the same with siteC. I'd then like to use the same premise for the media server so myDomain.com/media will display a directory listing of the files within the media directory. the document root within apache is d:/sites/live, I'm then using virtual hosts to determine what happens. This is fine with the standard mydomanA.com or myDomainB.com but not when trying to achieve what I mentioned above. This is one of the attempts:               <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "D:/Sites/Live/siteA"         ServerName www.mydomain.com/siteA         <Directory "D:/Sites/Live/siteA">             Order allow,deny             Allow from all             AllowOverride All       </Directory>      Another failed attempt using aliases instead:               <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "D:/Sites/Live/siteA"         ServerName www.mydomain/siteA         <Directory "D:/Sites/Live/siteA">             Order allow,deny             Allow from all             AllowOverride All       </Directory>            Alias /siteA D:/sites/live/siteA       <directory "D:/sites/live/siteA">         Order allow,deny         AllowOverride All         </directory>     </VirtualHost>      Thanks for any help, I've been pulling my hair put for the past few hours trying to find a solution. Edited to answer comment. The expected input and output would be along the following:               mydomain.com = d:/sites/live/siteA     mydomain.com/siteB = d:/sites/live/siteB     mydomain.com/siteC = d:/sites/live/siteC      and the media server would be:               mydomain.com/media = d:/media


Effect on Google rankings if my site is down?

What happens to my Google rankings when my site goes down for a short or long period of time?


IP of my site in the shared hosting got changed and did not reflect yet. what will be the SEO concequence?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? My hosting company changes IP in the range of 6 months... May be either the change the servers or the IP. So for the past 20 hours my site is not loading in my place (India) where as i checked with my friend by that time in Japan. He said that it is loading there. But here it is still not. The hosting company said that it will take max of 24-48 hours for propagation of DNS settings. So at this time when google webmasters and google search bots and google crawl bots access the site what will happen. Will this affect my SEO records in google? like not found or not reachable or network error? Each countries ISP would be updating the dns in their own order so when japan got updated india did not (my service provider is Barthi Broadband (Airtel India)) . I am unable to get into a conclusion. **Besides is this related to Up Stream and Down Stream?**


What is the tolerable Website Downtime and it's Impact on SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? I'm using hostgator shared hosting for some of my sites and uptime reported by mo.ni.tor.us is in between 97% to 94%. Is it a tolerable range for downtime ? Also i would like to know how much downtime percentage is considered as okay in case of SEO ? I see that most updated blogs needs to have more uptime. But not sure how much downtime factor is considered in case of SEO ?


Does it make sense to throw a 404 error with PHP?

## Problem Description Hi, The current setting of my **.htaccess** file does not allow any kind of 404 (as far as I know). I mean, it captures every kind of url like `mysite.com/asfasfasf` then sends it to `index.php?lang=asfasfasf` then index.php 301-redirects to `mysite.com/en`. Anyway, ## Question I have a gallery page which takes project name as an input, so if a nasty user comes and `types mysite.com/gallery/asfasfasf`, I should redirect them to my 404.php page, using php, but how? I think my options are :   1. 301-redirect to location `404.php`   2. 404-redirect to location '404.php'   3. Forget about 404.php, just print " _project "asfasfasf" does not exist._ " on the gallery page.   4. ?? Which one makes most sense? More importantly, which one is best for SEO ? Thanks for any help!


When is it worth it to make my URLs "pretty"?

We are in 2011, search engines are now using hundreds or thousands of parameters to weight a page. The URL is only one of them, is it still so much of an impact in the search results? People are sharing URLs through URL shortener: short, long, ugly or nice URLs end up in the same way! People also share email by clicking on 'I like this', they don't copy paste URLs anymore, and when I do it and see people doing it, they never comment if an URL is long or short or anything... Is there still a need of having nice URL both for the users and search engines? If my rank on the search engine will change by 0.5% I don't really care... If I will make 2% of my user happy by having nice URLs I don't really care either...


Clean URLs without PHP file extension

I want to make my URLs clean, for example: `http://sample.com/about-me` instead of: `http://sample.com/about-me.php` This is my code:                   RewriteEngine On          RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f         RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php      But I can still access `http://sample.com/about-me.php`. How can I have `http://sample.com/about-me`, so `http://sample.com/about- me.php` will be permanently redirected to that? I think this technique is good for SEO because canonicalization needs just one URL. If I use two URLs that both can be accessed, I think that's not good for SEO and can make search engines confused, right?


Seo Calculation Formula?

I am using SeoWebPart which has its own page score. I find many of the things which are useful in SEO calculation like   1. Count Word in h1 tag   2. Count Word in h2 tag   3. Count Word in Title tag   4. Count Word in p tag   5. Total Word in Page   6. Count Word in anchor tag Please suggest a formula which I can use to show you a score for a page. I use this formula now but it's not good:               score = ([key word count]) * 100 / (total word count)


Does SSL really matter for most websites?

I've been pretty paranoid about learning to "do security right" for this site I'm building (first non-trivial site I've made), and I've noticed something that bothers me: SSL. I've read plenty of security threads here, on StackOverflow, and elsewhere that goes on at length about regenerating session ids after n uses, and how your passwords need to be salted, hashed, and never stored in plain text. I've read plenty about how to detect when a session has been hijacked, by tracking IP addresses, user agents, and by using tracking cookies. What I don't understand is what any of this matters when the website logs you in via a normal HTTP POST and sends your password over the wire in plain text? I understand that all the other methods I listed are needed to reduce your overall exposure, and maybe there are some sites that just don't need that much security anyway, but I guess what I'm asking is:   * **When is it ok to not bother with SSL?** Sites like Gmail, your bank, and LinkedIn, I can see having a reason to use SSL, but what makes it ok that sites like Facebook and reddit don't bother (hell, PlentyOfFish even stores your password in plain text and even emails it to you weekly as a reminder!?!)? How concerned should I be with making sure SSL is setup (especially since I'd be starting with a shared host, and I'm being pretty cheap to start)? My site won't hold any particularly personal information, if that helps. If the site becomes a success, I'd seriously look at paying the extra for the added security.


Moving to a new server. What happens to my POP3 email linked with Outlook?

I am moving my web server to another host in a few days and I have a concern about the emails. Currently, I am an Outlook user and instead of visiting the webmail's web server to read my emails, I connected it there. I use POP3 so emails are downloaded form server to my computer and stored locally. When I move to a new host, having the same incoming / outgoing server ( mail.domain.com ) (I think this is standard on Cpanel) will I lose my old email from showing in Outlook? I know I can't see them through the "old" host, but this is ok. I need to keep them locally and continue with the new host. Is this what happens, or should I do anything to keep my old emails locally and continue with the new ones from the new server?


Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links

I'm writing a very simple page that is supposed to be viewed on mobile devices. While viewing it in the iphone simulator I noticed that the iphone browser automatically turns any number string into a link, supposedly for dialing it directly. Problem is - there are a ton of numbers on my page that LOOK like phone numbers but actually aren't. Is there a way to tell the iphone browser to leave these numbers alone?


How to drive traffic to your site by making the Facebook experience sticky and viral?

I know some ways:   1. Make them sign up to our app. Every time they do something they post on their wall   2. Make them like our Facebook page. Every time we post something on that Facebook page, it shows up on their wall. That's the 2 method I know. Plain share or plain like seems to have very little viral and sticky value. They share once, and that's it. Most people don't even share. Am I wrong?


Optimizing data downloaded via 'link' media queries and asynchronous loading

I have a website that tries to make sensible use of media queries and avoid 'expensive' CSS for users of mobile devices. My eventual goal is to make it 'mobile-first' but for now, since it is based on Twitter Bootstrap it isn't. I included some background images (Base64 encoded) and styles that would only apply to "full-size" browsers in a separate stylesheet loaded asynchronously via modernizr.load. In Firefox (but not webkit browsers) it makes it so that if you navigate away from the homepage and then return, the content (specifically, all those extras) 'blinks' when it finishes loading...or maybe I should say reloading. If, instead of using modernizr.load, I include that stylesheet via a **_link..._** in the head with a media query attribute will it prevent the data from being downloaded by non-matching browsers (mobile, based on screensize) that it is inapplicable to?


Use responsive AdsSense unit but only as a banner/rectangle ad?

I'm using Google AdSense's responsive unit and on load it fits my browser window. The problem is that AdSense decides to fill the relevant space with both Square and Banner/Rectangle size Ads. I only want Banner size ads. I've tried putting the Ad in a container that only has a height of 60px but it will still load the square size ads. How do I tell AdSense I only want Banner/Rectangle size Ads?


How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?

A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on methods how this can be done in a friendly way so that my rankings would not be affected as a result. Here is what I did:   * I did set a response header: `Content-Language:en` and `Content-Language:fr`   * My URLs are formatted as: `www.website.com/en/...` and `www.website.com/fr/...`   * My HTML tag is set with a lang attribute: `<html lang="en">` and `<html lang="fr">`   * `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="EnglishPageUrl">` on French pages.    * `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="frenchPageUrl">` on English pages. But Google keeps referring to some English pages when I'm doing a search on Google.fr, knowing that the website was first only available in English. Is that normal? Do I have to wait still, it has been now almost one month, I thought it would be okay...? Thank you.


Are there any scripts to integrate social networking site's chat and posting features into a webpage using PHP or JS... for example a section with Facebook chat, a section to post to twitter and maybe even YouTube comments.


Google-bot sees “Sorry, we have no imagery here” on pages with Google Maps

I have a site with Google Maps on most of the pages. When inspecting content keywords in Google Webmaster tools, content keywords identified by Google-bot for the site include "imagery", "sorry" and "here". These turn out to be part of an error message returned by Google Maps: "Sorry, we have no imagery here". I cannot reproduce this error with normal clients, nor does "fetch as Google" show it. The problem is presumably that Google-bot tries to execute some of the Google Maps Javascript but then shoots itself on the foot and records the error message. A Google search for "Sorry, we have no imagery here" shows that this problem is endemic to sites across the internet, including Yelp and many others. I'd like to convince Google that my site is not about imagery and being sorry, but I'd also like to keep the maps in place. I guess one option would be to transition to static maps, but that's not a great alternative. There's some related discussion on Webmaster World, no resolution.


Register a .ca domain from the US -- proxy service

we ara a US-based business and interested in registering a .ca domain. I understand the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants - CIRA (www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf). This questions isn't about restrictions, it is about getting around restrictions. What practical options are available for us to make this happen?


a good licence for a CMS?

Going over quite a bit of Open Source licenses on opensource.org I am still not very clear which one I should aim for. What I want the license to do is the following.   1. Open Source license   2. Initial Developer(s)/Contributer(s) are to be credited and all copyright notices, credit notices as well as trademark and/or patten notices to remain in the "Source Code" and in no way may be altered.    3. Any software based of original "Source Code" are to be licensed under the same license as the original source and all source code "must" be available to end-user. Also any copy or re-distribution and/or fork must contain original copyright notices by Initial Developer(s)/Contributer(s)   4. The license is royalty-free for non-commercial use, non-profit organization use and /or any personal use.   5. The source code may be licensed under commercial license for commercial use, but must be done so with first acknowledge the Original Developer and for royalty. Even so any commercial license "may not" prevent the Initial Developer from continuing of licensing, development and distribution of "original Source Code" for personal, non-commercial and non-profit use under the original license and without any fee.   6. Commercial license can't and shall not effect or hold any of "original Source Code" that may prevent the re-use of the original "Source Code" by 3rd party developers, re-distributer and or forked projects.   7. The license applies internationally I wish to allow the use of the software for commercial/small-business use but for a small royalty. However I do not want to get screwed into having that commercial institution the "sole" holder of the "original Source Code". I still need to make sure I the Initial Developer and any Contributers retain the "source code" as there own and not any 3rd party. So what would be the best suggestions for a license close to the 7 points that I made.


What should I do to notify Google of a switch from ".php" to extension-free URL's?

I've implemented a simple mod-rewrite rule that internally rewrites urls without a file extension (that are not directories) to .php files and removed the .php extension from all our internal links. I've also updated the sitemap with the extensionless urls. However, the urls in Google's index obviously still have the extension.   1. Will Google crawl the site or download the sitemap and update its index automatically with the extensionless urls?   2. Should I be implementing a 301 redirect from .php to extensionless urls? At the moment, both url's will resolve to the same page which could be seen as duplicate content.   3. Should I get a list of all the urls in Google's index which have extensions and submit a request to have them deleted via Webmaster Tools?


Should I change from reset.css to normalize.css

I have been using css reset for quite a while now in different project, and I am quite pleased with it, always get good results. One thing that always bothered me was that I needed to overwrite a lot of elements, for example clearing the margin of an H2, and later on adding the margin again. Another thing is that a lot of elements are cleared that I do not even use. Now I have been reading a lot about normalize.css, I also see that the HTML5 Boilerplate uses this as it's default stylesheet. It does not reset everything, it just compensates for browser differences. If I compare the reset with the normalize I see that in the normalize a lot is left out. One big difference are the headings and paragraphs, they are left untouched in normalize. For all the rest of the elements I see that they are set to specific margins and padding. So actually the way I see it is as follow: _Reset.css: You begin from 0 and then build your way up. Add your margin, add your styles. You add this above your project and you are ready to go. Minor browser inconsistencies you add along the way._ _Normalize.css: You begin somewhere is the middle which is a consistent state in all browsers, and work your way up or down (adding or removing margin/padding) by changing the sheet itself._ Now in the end of your project, you end up pretty much in the same place. Differences I can think of are:   * with normalize you have a stylesheet that is more optimized than the one with the reset as you only have what you need.   * You can't just copy and paste the normalize sheet from one project to another, it is most of the time custom made for a particular project. In the end, I think you are better of with the normalize script, as it has a smaller footprint. So is this correct or am I looking at this the wrong way and just stick with the normal reset.


Will repositioning my code get my site penalised by google?

We have a website that has nice rankings in the Google SERPs for keywords which aren't in the meta description. As a result, Google assembles a text to display on the SERPs from the website top-down. Since a form is the first thing displayed on the page, the text is completely scrambled. This would be the code for the page:
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SEO SERP Google Chrome App

Has anyone installed 'SEO SERP' from Omiod app in chrome? If so, how accurate would you rate it? So far I'm thinking its pretty good, but I have never tried any paid versions.


Measure highest number of simultaneous visitors via Google Analytics

Is it possible to find out via Google Analytics the highest number of simultaneous visitors at any given time?


What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?

Google.com vs Google.ca vs Google.co.uk (etc) all rank their results differently. The intention is to return more locally-relevant content. **What factors, other than the ones below, are used to determine local relevancy?** I already know the TLD (.com, .ca, etc) and likely the server IP address is used but there has to be more as this would not explain some search results I noticed this week. Particularly, I see a US-based site ranking #3 for some keywords on Google.com, ranking #5 on Google.ca and not ranking within the first pages on Google.co.uk. On Google.com it outranks a Australian site which outranks it on Google.ca. The site itself is relevant for all English-speaking locations and it being outranked by sites from different regions on different Google TLDs (but not ones from the same region as the TLD).


When is a URL encoded?

When there are spaces in a URL like               http://example.com/this is not url enocoded      it is obvious, that the URL will end up as               http://example.com/this%20is%20not%20url%20encoded      When and what will encode my URL?   * Should links that I create to my URL be encoded in my HTML documents?   * Does the browser do the encoding?   * Does the server do the encoding?


Hosting for international audience

Is it a better option to host a web portal in the US if my target audience is likely to be international or cross-continent? Likewise, if I were to target region specific audience, I should find hosting that is located in the region? BTW, how do I find out where the servers of the web hosting companies are located physically (given the question that I am raising here)? Thanks in advance


Why isn't a newly purchased domain showing up in Google searches?

The domain ... `http://trello.com` ... was purchased a few months ago and is now live as of a week or so ago -- and has been linked from several prominent places on the web -- but searching for the word `trello` produces absolutely no results from `http://trello.com` in Google whatsoever. We know that most of the pages are being indexed by google, for two reasons:   1. Google Webmaster Tools says the site is fine   2. If you do a search including site:trello.com in the search terms, plenty of pages come up Is it because most of the page content on the site is generated on the fly via JavaScript, or because there needs to be some kind of special support for the googlebot agent? We're at a loss to explain why this is happening.


Benchmark for website speed optimization

I working on website speed optimization. I mostly used 3 tools for analyzing speed of optimization. Speed analyzing Tools:   * Google pagespeed tool   * Yslow Firefox extenstion   * Web Page Performance Test I am measuring performance using above tool and benchmark result as below like before and after. **Before optimization :**   * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 53/100   * Web Page Performance Test : 55/100 (First View : 10.710s, Repeat view : 6.387s )   * Yahoo Overall performance score : 68 **Stage 1 After optimization :**   * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 88/100   * Web Page Performance Test : 88/100 (First View : 6.733s, Repeat view : 1.908s )   * Yahoo Overall performance score : 80 **My question is ?**   * Am i doing correct way ?   * What is the best way of benchmark for speed optimization ?   * Is there any standard ?   * Is there any much better tool for analyzing speed ?


How can I recover my site's search engine ranking after another site copied my content?

A few days ago I noticed that I lost half the traffic for my website overnight. Investigation showed that someone had made a perfect clone of my website (more info here), and that Google in its infinite wisdom had decided that my site is no longer relevant and replaced my site with the clone site on the first page of its search results! I filed a DCMA complaint, and the offending site was delisted from search results a few days later. However, I'm no longer on the front page of Google. In fact, for my main keywords, my main site is no longer in the search results at all. One of my "long tail" pages shows up on the 2nd or 3rd page, but the main homepage no longer shows up. Will this be resolved in time, or is there something else I need to do about it? EDIT: In response to the query of "maybe you just lost ranking for some other reason": I figured out that the clone is implemented as a a proxy so I can see its traffic as well. My site's traffic dropped the exact same day the clone started getting traffic, i.e. when it started showing up in Google's search results. The question of "Why was this site even listed by Google" is a very valid question, and it would seem that Google is not so clever as they say they are, but that seems off-topic. At the moment I'm just trying to get my old position back.


Using AdSense to show ads to logged-in users

I know that you can grant authorization permissions to Google AdSense so that it can 'log in' and see what other logged in users can see (e.g. in a private forum), so that the ads it displays are better targetted. Extending this principle further: I am making a site which will show completely different content for each individual user (i.e. _not_ 'common' content like a forum in which everybody sees essentially the same thing). You could think of this content as similar to the way each Facebook user has a different news feed, but it is the 'same' page. Complicating things further, the URLs for this site will be simple, e.g. '/home' and '/somepage', and will _not_ usually include unique identifiers to differentiate between users (e.g. '/home?user=32i42'). **My questions are:**   * Is creating an account purely for AdSense to log in to the site with worth it in this case, seeing as it will be seeing it's own 'personalized' version and not any other user's?   * More importantly: is that against the Google AdSense Terms of Service? (I can't seem to figure that one out)   * How would you go about this problem?


Facebook Like button warning, but prevents sharing

I added a FB Like button to my Wordpress template, and when I click Like, I receive an error, which pops up and says: There was an error liking the page. If you are the page owner, please try running your page through the linter on the Facebook devsite (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/) and fixing any errors. The Lint Checker (now) gives no Error or Warnings, after I removed a duplicate og:description tag. Why is it not working?


Back link not showing

For this website http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/, there is a link from here http://atva10.comp.nus.edu.sg/assocEvents.html but when searching in Google.               link:http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/      It does not show up that page, what's the problem? (The link has been there at least 2 years)


Why do porn websites link to my site?

I have a webiste about Bolivia and theirs destinations. This project is hosted on GoDaddy and have been modified by many differents teams... I do not understand why sometimes the most relevant querries are 'perfectgirls.net' and other words relative to porn ? Why some porn website have some links to my site ? I just present beautifull places, nothing about porn.. I think that this is automatic bot crawlink the web, isn t it ?


How do I add a favicon to my website?

What markup is the modern standard for adding a favicon to my site? What is the standard image format and size?


Multi language switch links translated or in current language?

Should I do:   A: translate the language links in the current language: (if I am on the English version)               English |      Italian |      French      B: the links in the native languages:               English |      Italiano |      Français      From a user perspective option B is obvious, but what about SEO?


Can you host Magento on Heroku?

I have Magento running on Heroku but the DB is on Dreamhost (because Heroku doesn't host mySQL). I get a Database connection error from Magento whenever I try to connect. Anyone ever done this?


Server responding to request differnetly

![Local Host](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WBLa6.png) I believe as above hosted locally , the long green delay is actually the home page of the website. May i know what causes those delay? Magento is a very CPU intense monster, is it due to the fact that its waiting for the server to respond due to lack of cpu power? I did load test on different website before to study how server works, as i'm new to server hosting and optimizing. I personally use amazon and i understand amazon has their limit, i tested my server stress test and it would react in 0.5 seconds with 30 concurrent users, Micro instance, apache, varnish , compressed js and img, images from S3(CDN) and the load time only shoots up from 0.5 seconds to 1min ! at 31st concurrent user. Why does the shoot happens? It feels like it cannot take users when its stressed. Where as the other site that i tested , the image above is one example , no matter how stress it is , from 20-50+ users, its load time is 1min(from overseas connection) locally i tested its 30 seconds. I did check on other website too, some are hosted on share hosting, and they are able to take stress and function when its overloaded. It just react in 1min, for my case, amazon, it can even hit 3-4 mins when its stressed. May i know how do i have this "Maxinum load time no matter how stress it is, not NO Matter but to a larger extend" What should i be looking at. *PS if i increase my Micro instance to Small instance, it can take only an additional 10 concurrent users, which isnt a big difference but when it come to cost, its a hell lots of a difference. Any other knowledge would be totally appreciative, i'm here to learn and to help in future. Thank you for this platform. Regards, Jonathan


Are MX records independent of A records?

I recently switched a domain's email service to Google. The only records I changed in the name server was the MX records, pointing to Google. To my surprise, emails sent to and from Google Apps work just fine. So is there a point in changing the A, CNAME, and other records in the name server for a domain if the only use of the domain is email?


Set of icons available to download freely

I need to use icons in my website. It has facility to add, edit, search, review etc. So I need to use Icons for the same. I tried googling but not getting it as expected. Can someone help me to get a set of Icon (free, not paid) for all basic functionality for dynamic website.


Can SSL Wildcards have multiple/nested levels of wildcard?

I know that an SSL wildcard certificate (`*.example.org`) can be used to support many names under the domain (`a.example.org`, `b.example.org`, `c.example.org`). I also know that the * is only good for matching a single level of name. That is, `*.example.org` will not work on `a.b.example.org`. What if I used a certificate with the name _._.example.org? I'd like to build a certificate with the following name configuration:               CN=example.org     subjectAltName=DNS:example.org, DNS:*.example.org, DNS:*.*.example.org, DNS:*.*.*.example.org      I've tried building a few like this as self-signed certificates, but I've not had good results. For example, chrome tells me "Server's certificate does not match the URL." Is it possible to have nested wildcards in a certificate, or do the popular browsers not support this? **edit** I believe it's possible to build a cert like this: I've done so with OpenSSL. It just looks like browsers understand it. I was hoping for confirmation of that, or if I'm lucky, a "here's how you do it."