How long before Google will update search terms matching my website?

I have a website which title I changed about a month ago. The website is a classifieds website which is dynamic, using php. The title changed from " **Free classifieds** " to " **buy and sell free classifieds** ". The strange part is that after about two weeks the title showed in google search results changed to the new title, BUT when I searched for " **buy and sell free classifieds** " my website didn't show up at all. I mean I have gone through over 30 pages of search results and my site isn't listed. However, searching for " **free classifieds** " still display my website at the same position it was before the title change. Any reason for this? How patient should I be? FYI the website has a sitemap submitted and updated, good meta tags and is W3 valid etc etc, so that is not the problem here. Thanks


I'm using a vanity ccTLD, can I persuade Google to geotarget a different region?

Because I'm still living like it's 2008, I run a website with a .in TLD. The website has nothing to do we India and does not target Indian users. Unfortunately, when I go to Google Webmaster Tools I see that Google have locked my geotargeting status to India: ![Screenshow showing that I cannot change the geotargeting settings.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GkuEp.png) On the help pages, Google state that: > Sites with country-coded top-level domains (such as .ie) are already > associated with a geographic region, in this case Ireland. In this case, you > won't be able to specify a geographic location. This seems implausibly inflexible, so I want to know if there are any sneaky ways of removing auto-geotargeting, or changing it to a more appropriate region?


sitemap - following mvcsitemapprovider but categorization is confusing me

I'm using mvcsitemapprovider for sitemap. http://mvcsitemap.codeplex.com/                public class StoreDetailsDynamicNodeProvider              : DynamicNodeProviderBase          {              MusicStoreEntities storeDB = new MusicStoreEntities();                  public override IEnumerable<DynamicNode> GetDynamicNodeCollection()              {                  // Build value                  var returnValue = new List<DynamicNode>();                      // Create a node for each album                  foreach (var album in storeDB.Albums.Include("Genre"))                  {                      DynamicNode node = new DynamicNode();                      node.Title = album.Title;                      node.ParentKey = "Genre_" + album.Genre.Name;                      node.RouteValues.Add("id", album.AlbumId);                          returnValue.Add(node);                  }                      // Return                  return returnValue;              }          }      this is the code on their website for registering dynamic website nodes. How do I modify this to adapt to my website's categorization is confusing me. Here is the layout of my website:               home->approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..          home->not approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..      and only after going through so many levels, the entries come up. what's confusing me is as you can see entries in my sitemap do not have one unique parent key. Even in the database, the way things are stored as is that each row of an entry in the database would know that it belongs to approved, entertainment, kid, etc... like below:               Entry1 | approved | education | kid | levelx | levely | levelz ...        how would one organize sitemap of something like that for sitemap? **Edit: I posted a similar question on stackoverflow, but I felt this may be more appropriate place.**


Updating a web app without any downtime

It's a PHP app. How can I minimize the downtime while updating the entire codebase?


Temporarily share/deploy a python (flask) application

## Goal Temporarily (1 month?) deploy/share a python (flask) web app without expensive/complex hosting. ### More info I've developed a basic mobile web app for the non-profit I work for. It's written in python and uses flask as its framework. I'd like to share this with other employees and beta testers (<25 people). Ideally, I could get some sort of simple hosting space/service and push regular updates to it while we test and iterate on this app. Think something along the lines of dropbox, which of course would not work for this purpose. We do have a website, and hosting services for it, but I'm concerned about using this resource as our website is mission critical and this app is very much pre-alpha at this point. ### Options I've researched / considered   * Self host from local machine/network (slow, unreliable)   * Purchase hosting space (with limited non-profit resources, I'm concerned this is overkill)   * Using our current web server / hosting (not appropriate for testing) Thanks very much for your time!


Host a J2EE application on Tomcat externally

I'm planning to deploy a Web application which I want to expose to all people on internet. I can buy a domain name, and redirect it to a public host which hosts my J2EE application. Whom should I choose for hosting my web app? What are my hosting options? I want good performance for better user experience. And price is definitely a concern.


How to disallow selection of text on website?

I have a question about preventing the selection of content and right-clicking with your mouse on a website. Some websites that I have encountered display a dialog which prohibits right-clicking but the website in question does not show any dialog. To visually make it clear, here is the website in question: http://www.amandakjones.com/homemade-creamy-garlic-dressing.php. Notice that you are not allowed to right-click, let alone select text. I would like to know how this is done.


How to explain visitors that we don't control Google's results?

I have a message boards. Once in a while, some people contact us to remove anything related to them. We comply and delete all the posts and all traces. Some of those visitors still complain that they still appear on Google. What can I tell them? Is there a link on Google explaining the whole cache thing, how often they update, etc ... I'm looking for a canned answer that would shift the responsibility away from me.


Unexplained long Time To First Byte

My wordpress blog is getting a grade F for TTFB on webpagetest.org: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140905_20_PRX/ with a TTFB of over 800ms. I cannot explain it. Indeed, I use a CloudFlare CDN, apc for PHP, Total Cache plugin, KeepAlive connection and I get a grade A on YSlow. Plus, CURL shows a much faster TTFB :               sam@ubuntu:~$ curl -o /dev/null -w "Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total} \n" http://mywebsite      results: Connect: 0,063 TTFB: 0,137 Total time: 0,220 So, can I trust webpagetest.org ? It is supposed to be pretty reliable but I have doubts. Anyone experienced slow TTFB without knowing why ?


Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM. However, ISnotSPAM marks it as not-spam

I'm sending an email through my application code. The email gets into my Gmail spam folder. However, a test of the same email in ISnotSPAM is marked as non- spam. My application is using Sendgrid to send emails. Will appreciate some advice to avoid reaching the spam folder. Below is an example of ISnotSPAM report, marking the email as non-spam. The same email has reached my gmail's spam folder.               ==========================================================     Summary of Results     ==========================================================          SPF Check : pass     Sender-ID Check : neutral     DomainKeys Check : pass     DKIM Check : pass     SpamAssassin Check : ham (non-spam)     ==========================================================     Details:     ==========================================================          HELO hostname: mail-bk0-f48.google.com     Source IP: 209.85.214.48     mail-from: olgaduboshin@gmail.com     ---------------------------------------------------------     SPF check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=myemail@gmail.com     DNS record(s):     gmail.com.   155    IN  TXT "v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com"               ----------------------------------------------------------     Sender-ID check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=myemail@gmail.com     DNS record(s):     gmail.com.   155    IN  TXT "v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com"               ----------------------------------------------------------     DomainKeys check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=myemail@gmail.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     DKIM check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=myemail@gmail.com     Selector=20120113     domain=gmail.com     DomainKeys DNS Record=20120113._domainkey.gmail.com          ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin v3.3.1 (2010-03-19)          Result: ham (non-spam) (0-1.1points, 10.0 required)          pts rule name description     ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------               * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is freemail (myemail[at]gmail.com)     * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record     * 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message     * 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60%     * [score: 0.5000]     * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's     * domain     * -0.0 DKIM_VERIFIED DKIM_VERIFIED     * 0.0 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily     * valid     * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature     * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low     * trust     * [209.85.214.48 listed in list.dnswl.org]     * 0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL     X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=-1.1 required=-20.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,     DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VERIFIED,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,     RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1     X-Spam-Score: -1.1          To learn more about the terms used in the SpamAssassin report, please search     here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/


Google is changing my urls in search results - Joomla3 bug

My urls is something like escene.ir/component/products/تلفن-های-تحت-شبکه-مدیریتی/Escene-ES620-PEN-IP- Phone?task=view.12 but when I try to search **site:escene.ir** to see the whole links of my site, the urls are like **escene.ir/component/products?task=view.12** There is no link like the second one in my site, And yes, I submitted a site map and there is no link like the second one in my site map, too .any idea ??   * I'm using Joomla! 3 * * * ## Update : this is a bug in Joomla! 3 and has not been fixed yet. look at the **@isNaN 's answer**, and this discussion : **Joomla 3 and canonical URL**


Google Analytics usage disclosure in privacy policy

This "Google Privacy Center" states that: > All website owners using Google Analytics are required to have a privacy > policy that fully discloses the use of Google Analytics. At the Google Analytics TOS, there doesn't seem to be this requirement. Am I missing something?


Are there any possible pitfalls/issues that can arise from URL rewrites?

I'm in the process of move a website for a client, utilizing a new theme. Usually this is straightforward enough but some of the base _category_ URLs they use are mess and they would also like to be able to change some of the names of those categories also. I know fixing/changing these URLs can be accomplished using a 301 rewrite but I am wondering if there is a possibility of any issues arising from doing so. The client is overly anxious about broken links and loss of ranking and I want to put my own mind at peace about the changes (granted I know that modifying URLs may affect ranking). Also part of the change will be setting the site with a prefix of `www` - I'm assuming the same concerns apply.


Google Adwords and MCC account issue

I have a Google account for ages and I used it for Adwords. But Now I have to logout and log back in with a different account for another Adwords campaign group so my personal account has a canceled Adwords account. I tried to link my personal Google account to the active Adwords account, but that is not allowed because my personal account is still linked to an (inactive) Adwords account. Now I have searched the newsgroups from Google for this and found a solution. Go to Google account settings, products and hit 'edit' but there is no option to permanently delete the inactive Adwords account. All other solutions include a new Google account, but I use the Google account for to much to give up. please forgive me if this is not the correct SE website to ask.


Google Cache CSS and HTML files are out-of-sync

I am monitoring the cached version of the main page of one of my sites. I have noticed something strange. Obviously, the cached pages is displayed with the latest CSS file. Yet, the page content is quite oudated. How come? Is there anything I can do about it or should I just wait?


How to access a website hosted on a shared server (and IP), when its domain is not working?

I'm trying to find out alternative ways to access a website (not mine), which has temporarily lost its domain name due to it expiring. The site owner didn't realise the domain would expire and it has expired. However, I DO know that the site is still running just fine - I just need a way to access it other than via its domain. But this website happens to NOT be the only site on its (hosting provider's) server IP address. Entering in its IP address will not point to the site I want to access. I do know, that if a given website happens to be the subdomain for ANOTHER domain, you can try and use online tools to find a 'naked' subdomain url that the owner has specified for the site in question. (e.g. `siteiwanttoaccess.someotherparentsite.com`) But the site I want to access, is not a subdomain, it's a parent domain. On shared IP address hosting. The only other way I know of accessing a site other than via its 'given' domain, any alternative domains pointing to the same site (which you just happen to know or discover via domain research), or a 'naked' subdomain if it turns out to be such, is via THIS type of URL, which the hosting provider gives the siteowner at the beginning for use use until their intended domain's DNS propagates: `http://ser.ver.ip4.addy/~hostingaccountusername/` Is this url type above the only other way to access a parent domain's site? And if you don't know what this is, (because you are not the siteowner) is there any way, apart from brute-force attack, to figure out what this 'raw' server IP site URL is? You can always figure out the server IP bit, just not the bit after that pertains to their cpanel/webhosting account username. Are we reduced to guessing or brute-forcing this, or are there tools that can shed some light on finding out this 'raw' URL address?


2 domains SEO link building

I have 2 domains: `www.my-domain.co` and `www.mydomain.us`. Both are pointing for the same server, for example if you run `www.my- domain.co/file.html`, it's the same with `www.mydomain.us/file.html`. Now ... I began the SEO for `www.my-domain.co`, submitted in Webmaster Tools, sitemap, links etc. I supposed `www.my-domain.co` will rank good for _my domain_ keywords. After 1 year I change the domain from Webmaster Tools to `www.mydomain.us` which has no links pointed to him, and now the question come: If I begin the link building (dofollow blogs, formus, link directories etc.) once more on `www.mydomain.us` it will get double link juice?


Should we follow the schema.org paths?

schema.org seems to enable us to provide metadata for some search engines including Google and Bing so that our pages will display nicely on the web. My question is should we follow the schema.org and implement the stuff they are introducing? It looks very reliable and it will last longer than the individual stuff that every single SE is implementing. What do you think?


How to track Campaigns in Google Analytics without using UTM parameters?

Showing UTMs when linking from one site you own to another is kind of like wearing open-toed shoes at work: it's unseemly and unprofessional. But it's effective. Traffic spills nicely into Google Analytics with each parameter (source, medium, campaign, content) easily sortable & filterable in a single view. I assume there is another way to do this: to somehow obfuscate the campaign parameters so that Google Analytics reads, ie: `http://foo.com/fudge?=xyz` as `http://foo.com/fudge?utm_source=sitex.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social- explosion` Can this be done in the GA admin panel? Is there another way?


How spam comment affect my blog and website rank?

I have already read many articles on how I can detect spam comments and prevent spamming. But still I'm not satisfying with it, I just want to know how a spam comment can affect my blog and website rank.


input content in FF & Opera

i got a "register user to website" form on my site. It looks fine in all browsers except Opera and FF.. i tryed to show pics through html so you can see what I mean, but i cant without 10 posts, and i can only post one link, so..   here is the one pic and the explanation ->   http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4903/45825110.jpg notice the vertical spacing between the input boxes... how do I make it look the same in all the browsers? thanks in advance for the anwsers.. Andrej btw: i did't use any css resets on my page..


Free Invisible image counter in the html page

I need to track number of visits of my publication, but site allows only to insert images, and no javascript. I would like to insert white 1x1 pixel image. Are the any internet services which provide such functionality and count number of visits via such approach? P.S. I am not sure that this site is correct place to ask my question. In such case I will be very appreciate if you direct me to right location


Many Stack Overflow users' pages have no Google PageRank and they are not indexed, why?

If you go to my user page on Stack Overflow and you check it with the Google Toolbar, you can see it has no PageRank at all (this does happen for almost any user page, even people with much higher reputation, the only exceptions seem to be the users in page 1, and some other users they have PR). **My user page's Page Rank is not only zero, but not calculated at all.** When PR is 0 or less than 1, but calculated the Google bar shows white, but when the PR is not even calculated like in my user page the Google bar shows in grey. ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uAZiC.jpg) I further more discovered that **my user page is NOT EVEN INDEXED on Google** , simple test is searching on Google for the exact page url: "http://stackoverflow.com/users/260080/marco-demaio" and you will see no result. The question is **how can this be??? This is really weird to me because of the following reason:** If you search on Google for "Marco Demaio" on Stack Overflow only (you can do this by searching "site:stackoverflow.com Marco Demaio") the search result shows hundreds of 'asking/answering questions' pages where I was 'tagged'!!! Let's check one of these: the 1st one that appears now (shows one of the question I asked). We can be sure this page is indexed in Google because comes out in a search. Moreover, its PR is calculated. It's probably nearly zero. Still, **some PR flows there** , **the PR bar is not grey, but white** : ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NctIF.jpg) The page shown above has got links to my own user page. I checked the source code of the page shown above and the links are not **hidden or set with a rel="nofollow"** , moreover I can't see any meta character excluding the links on the page from being followed. **So what's happening? Why Google does not seemy user page at all.** **Did Stack Overflow do something to achieve this? If yes what did they do?** Any explanation really appreciates (as always). P.S. obviously I checked also the code of my user page, but I could not find meta tags excluding Google search for the page. P.S. 2 in a desperate adventure I also checked Stack Overflow's robots.txt but it does not seem to exclude user pages. * * * **UPDATE 1** following up on some answers, I did some more research. Excluding for a while the PR problem (since PR is not science), and looking only at the **user page on Stack Overflow NOT BEING INDEXED problem** : **pages do not seem to be indexed by Google because of the user reputation** , this user for instance has got NOW 200 points less reputation than me and his page is indexed (while mine not). **It does not seem even to be connected with months you have been on Stack Overflow** , this user (almost my same reputation) has been there for 3 months only and his page is indexed (while mine not and I have been a user for 7 months). It's bizarre! * * * **UPDATE February/2011** As of today, the page got indexed by Google at least when you search for "site:stackoverflow.com Marco Demaio" it's the 1st page. The amazing thing is that it has still got NO PageRank at all: Google toolbar states loud and clear "No PageRank information available". It's odd!


Can I split a $50 coupon from Google Adwords across multiple campaigns?

I'm receiving free coupons for Google Adwords Can I split the $50 into $10 for each website running campaigns? Is this possible?


Are new gTLDs negatively effected in SEO?

I have done my research, mainly using this as a source, and I have come to understand that there are certain aspects that can cause newer gTLDs, just by the indication that many of the newer gTLDs, such as `.directory`, will increase the total length of the full domain, therefore having a negative impact. Are there other reasons why sites with newer gTLDs may rank lower? I understand that there is no set timeframe for search engines to add a new TLD to their search results (however it is assumed to be very short) from this post, but would certain factors such as time since a gTLD has been implemented (the older the TLD possibly the more reliable/stable it is assumed to be) have any effect on SEO?


Search for my web site returns HTTPS results

My home page is set to Google and Google adds `?gws_rd=ssl` to it. When I type search term form my site into search box Google returns bunch of indexes (different pages within my site) that starts with HTTPS. Obviously when user clicks on any of those it will get disturbing warning that site is not secure. Now when my home page is set to `https://google.com` and I type my search terms into search box Google returns proper results. My site has about 20 pages and all of them are simple HTML pages: All of them contain `a href` to each others using relative path. Now one my pages links to `https://othersite.example.com` and it is references trough the other 20 pages using absolute path. What should I do to solve this search results. Should I use canonical in the head of the document for each of the 20 pages? By using Google Search `https...` I learned that couple Facebook pages (posts) refer to my site wrongly by using HTTPS instead of HTTP. Could these couple links referencing HTTPS be the cause of this?


Strategy to prevent spammers from taking advantage of "Invite by email" feature?

We are developing a web application, and we would like to make it very easy and effective for our users to invite their friends, family and colleagues to view and interact with their content on the application. _**Invite your friends by email_** We are considering the standard form where the user inputs a series of comma- separated email addresses These addresses would receive an email from our service, containing customized links to the content, etc. Our concern is that spammers (bots and/or humans - i.e. captcha isn't sufficient) may create marketing content on our website, and take advantage of the email invite feature to distribute unsolicited content. This could result in users reporting these emails as spam, potentially compromising our ability to reach out to users. **Possible solutions we've considered:**   * Requiring users to enter their email address & password, then fetching their contacts, and delivering the emails from that user's account via SMTP.   * Emphasizing social media channels as a delivery method instead. The problem with the first of these is that users may be less than eager to offer their email credentials. We consistently find examples of websites which offer the same function outlined above: specify arbitrary email addresses, and we'll send them an email. Is there a way to do this safely & effectively? P.S. Moderating usage of the feature is not feasible (administrative approval of outgoing requests). There is no way to distinguish between legitimate & illegitimate usage.


Joomla sometimes messes up URLs, probably cache involved

Every once in while my Joomla site messes up link's URLs. For example, something like this: http://www.sism.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123 Become like this: http://www.sism.org/index.php/component/k2/administrator/components/com_dump/assets/css/images/stories/inrilievo/sism/htm/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123 The new page has the right content but there's no CSS or other linked resources. Usually I solve the problem by deleting all the cache and turning it off and on again, which is pretty annoying. Watching the URLs the components involved seem to be K2 and Jdump. Does any one have any clue on this?


Need a table that can sort, lock

I need table that will be able to:   1. sort   2. lock columns   3. lock the header row   4. resize columns   5. scroll    6. if possible can add/remove columns. Was hoping to able to do this with jquery / html5 and have all data client side - so no server requests. I have tried:   1. http://www.datatables.net/ has no locking, resizing of columns   2. http://tablesorter.com/docs/ similarly has no locking, resizing of columns.


How to safely saving users' data and NOT get responsibility of users' data?

I am programming a website which will save up users' inputs for their next visits. For example, I might save their phone numbers. The user will know that I save their phone numbers. However, do I need to get responsibility if some hackers get into my database to steal the users' information? Moreover, how to make sure the data are safe. Thanks


How to tell Google and Bing to come and re-crawl sitemap

I'm new in SEO, I have a web application can let user post their own page. I have use PHP to update _sitemap.xml_ (daily.) How often do Google and Bing come back to crawl my sitemap? Do I need to do any setting in webmaster tool? How can I tell Google and Bing to come back and crawl my sitemap?


Should I Disavow irrelevant links targeting my blog through Google Webmaster Tools?

I commented on a blog, and after some days I checked my Google Webmaster Tools and I found an issue which is similar to ReplytoCom ( Reply to comment ), that means I am not only getting one nofollow link to my blog but accompanied with 35 more irrelevant links. Should I Disvow those 35 links as it may be SPAM in the eyes of Google? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GzPXr.png)


Wordpress Ecommerce plugin for handling multiple option groups & prices

I've been searching for a couple of hours for a wordpress ecommerce plugin that will handle products with multiple option groups but am yet to find anything that fits the bill. Basically, a product should have a base price and you should be able to specify multiple different attributes with associated prices. ie:               Garden Shed - base price £100             Wood types           beech +0.00           pine  +40.00             Roof Type           Canvas + 0.00           Tile + 50.00             Front Porch           No + 0.00           Yes + 45.00      etc etc Does anyone know of a plugin which will fit this bill? I've looked at thecartpress's dynamic options plugin and this only seems to allow combinations of options. ie beech + canvas + front porch = +45 or pine + tile + no porch = 90 etc Thanks


New site not appearing in index after change of address, no feedback from google webmaster tools

Our change of address seems to not be taking effect. Here's the story so far: We're a web company and our product is called The New Hive. Our site used to be at **thenewhive.com** , but we decided to switch to **newhive.com** (drop the "the", it's cleaner). So the timeline of what I've tried, starting on July 29th:   * used 301 redirects for all pages (e.g. thenewhive.com/tag/art => newhive.com/tag/art) At this point we noticed that we had disappeared from search results when searching "The New Hive", the front page used to be all links to our site plus a couple news articles about the company. So on August 5th I:   * verified new domain in webmaster tools (old domain was already verified)   * submitted a change of address request on August 5th with Webmaster Tools / Configuration / Change of Address Then after another week, on August 13th I did this:   * Went to Webmaster Tools / Health / Fetch as google   * fetched our homepage and a couple sub pages, all successfully   * clicked "Submit to Index" for homepage As of today (August 23rd) we're still not showing up in the index. We're getting no warnings or feedback of any kind from the dashboard so I'm inclined to think something's broken with the dashboard rather than that something's wrong with our site from an SEO perspective. From the dashboard: > No new messages or recent critical issues. > > Crawl Errors: No data available. From Health -> Index Status: > Total indexed 0 > > Ever crawled 42,490 > > Not selected 12 > > Blocked by robots 0 I'm really at a loss here, any help would be appreciated.


Our company's white label site was removed from Google's search index, would canonicalization help?

I recently started working for a new company and they have a lot of white label sites. Just last week I checked Google Webmaster Tools for one of our bigger in-house white label sites (one we personally run) and discovered that Google removed it from the index, though we never got a message in Webmaster Tools. I also performed a site:operator search just to be sure and it definitely isn't listed anymore. Finding out a little bit more about the site, I discovered it was changed to pretty much be an exact match of our main site and that it used to have canonical tags but they were removed. Not sure why. I don't have a lot of experience with white labels, so I guess this is more of a general help question, though I was specifically wondering if putting back the canonical tags that were previously removed would be enough.


Google is giving a "Malware Warning" on my site, but why?

I've inherited the development of a site that I designed but did not build - actually two sites. `http://kenbrook.org` and `http://kenbrookyouth.com` (same site also via `http://youth.kenbrook.org`). So recently kenbrook.org started displaying a red warning page when entering the site via Google's Chrome browser that said the site contained either malware or links to a site with known malware. After some research and help from other StackExchange users on this post, I discovered there was an added piece in one of my javascripts that was the issue. I don't even know how the script additions got there, or what they were really linking to, but I removed them and all was well (again, I didn't build that site so I'm not even familiar much with the scripts yet). But now the same Google warning is appearing for kenbrookyouth.com (youth.kenbrook.org) and I'm not sure where to start with looking for the problem. Any tips? And no, I don't think the same script that was vulnerable on the other site even exists on this site.


Optimized rate of frequency of changing title and description/keywords meta-tag?

OK we can change the content at any frequency. But what about `<title>`, description-meta tag, keywords meta tag. I think if we change title, description, keywords of any website daily, then that may affect page ranking. What is the real fact? What is the minimum and maximum rate of frequency to change these items? Legal practice may different from successful practice. Please explain me. NOTE: If this type of question answered before, then mention the link and please don't close or ban the question.


Is it possible to check the case on Apache redirects or aliases?

I have a big website (15,000 pages) with a log list of redirects (about 800) that have been used in marketing pieces for years. My Apache server has been running mod_rewrite for the past 10 years or so to force all requests to lower case. So a user could put in /CamelCase and Apache would read it as /camelcase and my corresponding redirect would work. I'm switching over my site to Drupal at the end of the month and the server needs to become case sensitive. I assumed that I could use mod_spelling on my list of redirects so people could continue to type in a URL however they choose and it would continue to work. Mod_spellin, however, does not scan through the list of redirects so it does not work. I have enough staff to have them go through the list of redirects and add in any case-sensitive variants but this would make my already large listing of redirects grow by 2 to 4 times. Hopefully I don't have to go down that route. I thought there might be a way to use mod_rewrite to test different cases on redirects but I can't get anything to work. So, does anyone have ideas?


How to Fix this specific Google "Fetch as Googlebot" error appearing on my Webmaster Tools?

Good day, I'm currently finding out why I have lost all of my website's rank in google. I don't even appear in google results by the domain. But other sites do link me and they appear in the google results. I think it's all about leaving my site two months alone and finding out I had 20k in comment spam, which I completely deleted and fixed with filters and adding a new Disqus comment service. Thing is, I added my site to Google Webmaster Tools and I'm finding out several awful things. For example, when I click in Google Fetch As GoogleBot. I receive this error message below in response to my request. And I don't even know what's the real problem and how to fix it. I simply don't get it. This is what appears: > Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:43:35 AM PDT > > Googlebot Type: Web > > Download Time (in milliseconds): 55 > > HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:43:36 GMT Server: Apache > Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 248 Keep-Alive: > timeout=2, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1 > > 403 Forbidden > > # Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access / on this server. > > Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. Do you guys know anything about this problem ? I need to have Google crawl my site again. I used to have a really nice google result in the past three years. Now, there's nothing. thanks,


Redirect directory URL to instead have .html suffix

htaccess redirect (301) all my old content from my WordPress to my new URL design. I want to redirect all the last trailing slashes to .html ... the permalinks are already working, but I don't want to lose all my collected backlinks for which I worked so hard. This is how my URLs look like:   * Pages (old): `/pages/redirection/` should redirect to `/pages/redirection.html`   * Posts (old): `/new-permalink/` should redirect to `/news/new-permalink.html`   * Custom Posts `/permalink/` should redirect to `/projects/permalink.html` The following rewrite rule does not work for me. It ignores my rewritebase, so it redirects `/projects/permalink/` to `/permalink.html` not to `/projects/permalink.html`.               RewriteEngine On      Options +FollowSymLinks      RewriteBase /project/      RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule . /project/index.php [L]      RewriteRule /project/([^/]*)/?$ /project/$1.html [L]


Google analytics giving data for pages that dont' exist

We switched from a PHP application to a Rails application last week. I ran daily reports and everything looked fine. When I ran a weekly content report it gave me data for index.php which doesnt exist anymore. The funny thing is that is looks spot on for page views. This also made me wonder how analytics would record "/" in a Rails app. I ran it through Fiddler, there is no redirect just a 404. I view source on the 404 and there is no tracking code. I am pretty baffled. Anyone know what could be going on ?


I can see traffic coming from google ads, even though I don't have any google ads running, how is that possible?

I can see "googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads...." as a referrer on my website. However I am not running any google ads. So how am I getting the traffic? Here's the complete URL http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?output=html&h=250&slotname=5275434421&w=300&lmt=1311690266&flash=10.1.102&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in%2Fsuperuser%2Fes%2Fpromiscuous- modo-con-intel-centrino-adelantado-n-6200-agn-tarjeta-inalambrica-- 214946.html&dt=1311690268347&bpp=3&shv=r20110713&jsv=r20110719&prev_slotnames=7553874535%2C5896307875%2C8590890981&correlator=1311690268052&frm=4&adk=3153418812&ga_vid=1396001617.1311690268&ga_sid=1311690268&ga_hid=558368546&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-180&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=1024&u_w=1280&u_ah=960&u_aw=1280&u_cd=24&u_nplug=6&u_nmime=22&biw=1263&bih=851&fu=0&ifi=4&dtd=441&xpc=T5MgG9EVV9&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in


How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring "Site Performance"?

I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and I'm a lot surprised by the results I get. I monitor our response time using Apache logs and our own implementation of Boomerang beacon. Using my stats, I can see that our new product responds in about 680 ms where our old product was responding in about 1050 ms. On the other side, Google Webmaster Tool tells us that our pages have an average response time of about 1500 ms today where it was 700 three months ago with our old product. I've figured that GWT was taking client side metrics into account so I've added some measures on our Boomerang beacon and everything looks just fine. I've also ran some random pages on ySlow and Google's Page Speed and everything looks better than it was before. We event have a 82% on Google's Page Speed tool which is quite cool for a site with some ads in it :) Lately, we have signed a deal with Akamai to use two of their products : CDN for our static files (we were using another CDN before but it wasn't very effective) and RMA to improve Networks routes. We have also introduced a new aggressive cache mechanism to ensure that most of the pages served to crawlers are cached by our memcache grid. After checking my metrics, it seems that this changes have improved from 650ms to about 500ms, which is good (still not great but it is definitely an improvement). But webmaster tools continues to report an increasing average response time where we see it decreasing in the same time. Have you ever had the same kind of weird behavior on your sites while doing performance improvements ? Do you have any idea how to monitor the same thing Google does with Site Performance in Google Webmaster Tools so that we could improve our site and constantly check if it is what Google wants ? **Edit 2011/07/26** : Thanks for your answers guys ! Nevertheless, I was not precise enough. The main issue we have is not with the Site Performance page but with the Crawl Stats one for now. We probably found an issue on our side with some very slow pages (around 3000 ms !!) and we are trying to fix them. I'll keep you posted as soon I'll have some infos. Thanks again !


Does htpasswd authentication prevent Google from crawling my site?

I have a site that I want to continue testing before I make public, so I don't want Google to start crawling the site as there will be a large amount of garbage content during testing. I currently have authentication set up using htpasswd, will this prevent site crawlers or robots from crawling my site?


Canonical URLs for local versions of a webpage?

I'm currently looking to grow traffic on a consumer-facing reviews site (Like Yelp, but for the security industry). One strategy we are pursuing is to provide localized content based on the zip code or city that the user searches with on Google. In essence, we want to create separate versions of each company profile page for each area that the company serves to drive targeted, local traffic to the page. An example would be a company with a top-level profile URL of `example.com/security/company-a` and a local version of the profile at `example.com/security/chicago/60657/company-a`. My question is this: Does it make sense to use canonical URLs here? That is, point all local profile URLs back to the top-level profile URL? On one hand, these pages will be largely similar and I want to ensure we are not confusing Google with duplicate content. On the other hand, would using canonicals prevent the local profile webpages from being shown on local Google search queries? As our content grows on the site, I can definitely envision more unique content on each page (i.e. highlighting local reviews for that company) to improve the relevance of the local page. Do you have thoughts as to what to do here? I would be very appreciative for your advice.


Link to another website and track clicks on the link while also keeping the link "valuable" from a SEO point of view

I want to build a small directory for programming-related websites only and I'm a little bit confused at the moment. I want to be able to track how many times visitors clicked links to certain websites, but I still want Google to pick-up that link as being towards site X, without losing any SEO value (meaning, for Google, that link still has to look like a clean backlink, not a link to a PHP file that redirects the user to another website). Question is, if I use jQuery to post some data (simply "link x clicked") to a PHP script beforethe default behaviour (directing the user to the page), will Google penalize the link or will it still be as valuable as a normal back- link? Thanks all, Claudiu


addthis button default message

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  addthis button default message How to set default message, I am using addthis button for invite a friend Email on a website. that default message should also work if user choose gmail, yahoo etc from addthis box.


Total / Lifetime Sales on Magento Dashboard is incorrect

After updating from Magento 1.2 to 1.4 I noticed that the Lifetime Sales amount was incorrect (other sales reports are fine). Even after making a fake order the Lifetime Sales didn't change. I tried refreshing statistics but nothing happened. Searching the web for this problem turned up a lot of people with the same issue but no solutions. Any suggestions?


Can an indexed page never be returned to any search query?

Assuming Google finds a website with 100 pages and decides to index 80 pages. Does it perform further filtering on these pages or will start matching user queries with all the 80 indexed pages (on the long run)? In other words, is it possible for an indexed page to never be returned to user search queries? Let's assume there is no site wide penalty.


REST webservice full implementation: server + client

I've spent a week reading about RESTful webservice and searching for a fully example to build my project above. When I reach a fully understanding of the REST webservice, I couldn't find any full implementation for it! I was wondering why there's a lack in code samples of this great technique. I want to implement it with PHP and Apache web server and make it fully and has all verbs like this tutorial [part-1][1] , [part-2][2] (see comments for links) saying: > **The Basics of a RESTful Request** > > Every REST request consists of essentially the same basic parts: > >   * **The URL** – This is the URL we’ll be making a request against (often > referred to as a resource). >   * **The Verb** – GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE… there are some others out > there, but these are the 4 most common ones. >   * **The Params** – The parameters we’ll be supplying to the API, often > referred to as the request body. >   * **Credentials** – Username and password… we’ll cover HTTP Digest auth > credentials. > > > And, of course, we’ll have a few pieces for our response as well: > >   * **The Response Body** – The actual response body the API gave us. >   * **The Response Status Code** – The HTTP status code the API responded > with. >   * **Other Response Info** – We’ll also have some other interesting info in > the response. > At first I tried this sample , but I found later that it doesn't follow REST standard rules. After digging in the web I found this example but it doesn't give me the server code! Just the client code and processing response. Do you know any common lib for REST that support both server-side and client- side ? with examples and docs? please give me your suggestions , it's urgent .


AWStats linking URL

I have a site that AWSTATS is saying 5 people clicked to get to my site in my stat report. When I go to that link, I don't see anything referencing my site. Is there somebody hiding my link?


Add second site through iframe

I have two blogs on Tumblr. Let's call them Pets.Tumblr.com and Cats.Tumblr.com A while ago I decided to make Pets.tumblr.com my main blog, but since Cats.tumblr.com grew more popular, I decided to merge these sites together. What I have done is this: I've created a blank page on pets.tumblr.com/cats, put a full sized iframe with cats.tumblr.com as source, and a jquery redirect script in cats.tumblr.com that redirects to pets.tumblr.com/cats I'm wondering if this would impact my site negatively? Will search engines see pets.tumblr.com/cats as a blank site (iframes are ignored?) and cats.tumblr.com as a spam site because it redirects to a blank one?


How to make textarea look like notebook?

I want the user to feel like they are writing on notebook paper while inputting into a textarea. How may I do this?


What causes a profile picture to disappear from author information in Google SERPs?

Does anyone know what causes the exclusion of a profile picture in the authorship information in the Google SERPs? For some reason, my profile picture has disappeared from the author information in the Google SERPs. The 'by author name - in xxx Google+ Circles' is still showing, but without a head-shot. I'm having this issue for all websites I post content on. For some of these websites I claimed authorship using the `rel="author"` attribute, for some of them I did so through email verification. For others I verified authorship by adding `?rel=author` to the Google+ URL. Just to be clear, authorship information is set up correctly for all these sites. I tested the ones that were verified with author markup with the rich snippet testing tool. Also, as mentioned before, the author name is still showing up in the search results and the articles are showing up in the author statistics in Google Webmasters Tools. Everything was still working perfectly a while ago, and I didn't change anything before this issue started. I've searched for a fix, and did find others that have the same issue as of recent, although no solutions yet. Troubleshooting steps I've taken:   * Replaced profile picture with a more clear headshot on Google+   * Replaced `<a href="https://plus.google.com/9999999999/" rel="author">Google+</a>` with vanity link: `<a href="https://plus.google.com/+ExampleVanityLink" rel="author">Google+</a>` I have also read somewhere that disappearing author pics could be caused by a lack of activity on Google+. I've however seen profile pictures from other authors appear in SERPs that were way less active on the networking site than I am.


Don't count visitors who go to a certain link using Google Analytics?

I'm trying to make sense of the Google Analytics on my company site. Many of our employees will be visiting the site just to click on the timesheet link, and I want to remove these users from my stats. The issue is that the link is within the site's domain, but is a separate system (not part of the main site's CMS) and so doesn't have the analtyics tracking code in its pages. Visits to this page aren't picked up by Google Analytics as there is no tracking code, and the page isn't seen as an external link as its within the same domain.


Is changing HTML with JavaScript bad for SEO?

Building web apps I don't have to worry so much about SEO for back end things so dynamically changing the HTML isn't an issue. I am using _backbone.js_ with a front end site I'm building and the site is a tour based site, ex several sections within the scroll flow. So when the page loads, I store the original HTML in a variable `origHtml` then set the HTML to change into something like `this.$el.find('.section- one').html('<h1>Welcome</h1>');` This is a part of an animation I am working on and then after some animation happens, that block is out of view and I reset that HTML to the original one. It's not absolutely necessary to do it that way, but I like playing with _backbone.js/javascript_ and am curious if this is a problem. Because I could just create an extra section and `hide`/`display:none` when appropriate, but I am trying to avoid using `hide`/`display:none` http://css-tricks.com/places- its-tempting-to-use-display-none-but-dont/ (an article I read a while back). I mean this is just experimenting/learning for me what is the optimal way to manipulate HTML for front-end websites? P.S.: I understand some people may say you need to provide fallbacks for non JavaScript users, and I say no, anyone who does not have a browser that supports JavaScript or does not have JavaScript enabled should not be on my site, plus that demographic is like under 2% (might be wrong) but it's very low. **Additional:** If this is bad for SEO I think it would still be okay to use `position:absolute` and either set `opacity:0` on the element I want hidden, or use `margin-right: -9999` or even use `display:none` I don't care I just like the JavaScript way but Id like to understand whats best.


"Google couldn't access your site because of a server connectivity issue"

In Google Webmaster Tools on my dashboard I have a notice that appeared 2-3 days ago that says "Googlebot can't access your site". Under the Current Status it has:   * DNS - SUCCESS   * Server Connectivity - FAIL   * Robots.txt Fetch - SUCCESS However, if I "Fetch as Google" the fetch status returns successful. This is a Joomla site so my robots.txt is the default Joomla one which shouldn't cause any problems:               # If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at     # e.g. www.example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be     # moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com/robots.txt     # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed     # path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder     # MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/     #     # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:     # http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html     #     # For syntax checking, see:     # http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html          User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/     Disallow: /dev/      Any help with how to diagnose the problem? I'm not sure why this has suddenly cropped up for no apparent reason.


Google Webmaster Tools site removal

I had a major issue in the last week where a site was found to be showing huge numbers of pages that it shouldn't have been. Naturally Google indexed all of these pages! Rather than manually remove 5000+ links, I thought the nuclear option of removing the whole site would be the best option (using the _Remove URL_ tool with no URL provided), since the site was poorly ranking anyway. I had read that this was a good way to reset your site if you wanted to start over. I removed the site, then after confirming that Google had removed it, I resubmitted the site for indexing and submitted a new site map and a new _robots.txt_ to prevent indexing of the restricted pages. The sitemap shows that it is indexed (or at least, a large portion of it is indexed) and I can see the Google bot activity on the site. However, on my dashboard I see _severe health problems_ listed, with the main one being _important page removed_ and a link to the removal request for the main site. Furthermore, there are no links to the site in the Google index (when tested against `site:mysite.com` in a search). Do I need to _reinclude_ the site using the removal tool? If I do this, will it re-add all the bad URLs that I was trying to get rid of?


Protect SVG from client access

I want to make a presentation that consists from some number of slides. The actual content of the slides is going to consist of vector elements in SVG format. The transition between slides should be managed with JavaScript. The question is, whether it is possible to implement this in such way that user can not save the presentation either using simple Save As... or digging into browser's cache? Also I am thinking about using Raphael (which is JavaScript library) instead of pure SVG. But as far as I know, it's impossible to protect JavaScript from client access since it's meant to run on client side. So is there any way to get full or some protection from client saving the slides?


Where can I find Ad Networks with single liner Ads?

I've developed a site that serves pure HTML Weather widgets (and they are great looking too). Just after two months I am generating 1.25K hits monthly (Google Analytics). Now I want to generate some money out of it. You can check my service out on Here . I am looking for affiliate or an Ads service that can I can hookup within but there is a twist in story. **_I want single liner text Ad in a particular location_** otherwise widgets will look rubbish, see this snapshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lMyGg.jpg) Plus I have some unique places in my site to place some banner ads as well, Here are existing set of services that I've already tried:   * Ad Sense, doesn't allow or have such formats of methods.    * Peefly provides you with straight links works best but I recorded some clicks (Through Google Events) and they didn't show me any, plus it introduces overhead of manually going and choosing your links.    * BidVertise totally rubbish opens popups and what not, makes site look like spam I am new to this ad stuff so have a limited knowledge. Suggestions please? I have one more place in Forecast but I want to start simple. P.S. I also have a MetroUI like widget coming in the pipeline but its not ready yet.


SSL Certificate is Untrusted how to fix it

How can i fix the untrusted ? And why it appears ? What may cause this problem.This is in FF but in Chrome is red https with x marked on it.


How to deal with a client who redesigned their own site badly?

I am a freelance designer/developer. I am starting a registered business and will be offering other services soon and I am in the process of expanding the portfolio section of my existing website but have noticed that one of my previous clients has had a bit of trouble and has tried to mimic the design I created for him and do it himself on a Wordpress site. I originally built him an actual website, on Windows hosting environment and the new version he has created (trying to mimic what I had created) looks terrible. This is going to reflect badly on me since I am showcasing his website in my portfolio. Now when people go to check out his site, they will no longer see what I built, they'll be seeing a terrible clone of what I made. How would you deal with this? I have recently found out that my client had lost my number and spoke to my friend about contacting me but didn't. And based on what was said when I finished the website years ago, there's no reason to assume that he didn't want to contact me again. Would you contact this client and see if they would like the website put back to its original state (and make any new updates that they wanted)? Or would you just take the link down from your website's portfolio, and just include a screenshot of the work you did for them? Or would you just show a list of logos on your portfolio for the people you've done work for? Or would you include the link to the client's site, along with a screenshot and also some disclaimer somewhere stating that while the screenshots were correct at the time, they may change in the future? I'd really like to contact this client to see if I can help them, because I know he likes his site to look perfect, and given what he said years ago, there's no reason for me to think that he likes what he's created. But I haven't contacted him yet because I don't want to be rude - because there's always a chance that he has changed his mind, or may be a little proud.


Two websites (and domains) on one hosting

So I am a poor college student, thus I can't afford dedicated hosting, cloud or anything fancy of the like... However I managed to purchase myself two domain names say `http://abc.com` and `http://def.com` for two completely different PHP applications (both are CakePHP, database-driven applications). I also have an Economy hosting package from GoDaddy. So, my question is: will I be able to host those two applications on the same host? Is it just as simple as creating two separate folders 'abc' and 'def' and have the domain names point to them? I have found something of similar nature: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4809112/hosting-two-domains-using-only-one- vps . Not sure if this will apply to my case using GoDaddy service. Thanks for your help guys. I have never actually done deployment before. My whole life has been around LAMP stack local development. Hopefully this will clear up my mind a little.


Tracking IP of FTP uploader of files to server?

I'd like to be able to see who uploaded or last updated a given file. I'm asking specifically about dreamhost panel, but info pertaining to cpanel would be useful as well.


Switching to HTTPS - redirect question

Following the recent Google announcements about improved ranking for sites running on https we have a number of clients asking about this. Is it safe to just 301 redirect all pages to their SSL equivalent, for example in a common PHP include file:               if($_SERVER['HTTPS']!="on"){         $redirect= "https://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];         header("Location:$redirect",true,301);         exit();     }      Obviously I'm aware this is also possible within a _.htaccess_ file but that cannot be modified in our case. Obviously all internal links would be switched to `https://` links but obviously we need to sort out incoming links from Google and elsewhere. Is this a sound approach? Are there any other gotchas to be aware of?


Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?

Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently? All lowercase or mixed case? Example:               http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/      OR               http://www.mysite.com/what-is-my-site/


Typo3 Product display with spec selection

I am looking for a possiblity in Typo3 to display our products. What I have in mind is something silimar to this: http://www.haagen-partners.nl/aanbod/ An image of the product, some key specs and a short description. Besides that a selector to narrow some of the specs, select a product branch etc. As far as I can see this is based on Multishop. However I have no clue how to implement this. Is there a different extension which is already closer to what I am looking for? Or does anybody know of a good tutorial how to do this?


Need advice, previous parked domain not indexing on Google

I originally bought the domain (www.iconicphotos.co.uk) a while ago, I then decided to try and sell it on Sedo. The domain was up for sale for a few months before I noticed that the ads being pulled through on the parked domain were porn based (Not happy about this!). Anyhow recently created a gallery site to sell my artwork from but I am finding now that the site isn't being indexed at all! I had a couple of pages appear a few days ago but for only a couple of hours before they were removed. If you try the non www version of the domain using (site) there are a couple of pages but they are they show the old parked domain info. I have created a WMT account and updated it with a new sitemap. I have also submitted the site again using the fetch as google bot option. Not sure what to do now?


CSS3 allowed in email?

I cannot find any answers or discussions if CSS3 is allowed in HTML emails from the search box. I am wanting to update my company newsletters and campaigns but I don't know what properties are allowed. A list similar to a browser list would be awesome. Does anyone have a list that identifies the CSS properties that can be used for emails?


Clean URLs issue using .htaccess in PHP project

I am working on a PHP laravel project. I am currently facing issues with _.htaccess_ file. I have following _.htaccess_ :               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options -MultiViews     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]     </IfModule>      When I reload my page the it gave me following error:               404 Not Found          The requested URL /contacts was not found on this server.      Then I opened `/etc/apache2/users/username.conf` file which had following line of code:               <Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">     Options Indexes MultiViews     AllowOverride None     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </Directory>      In above code I changed `AllowOverride None` to `AllowOverride All`. Then I reload page and got following error:               403 Forbidden          You don't have permission to access /contacts on this server.      When I add `FollowSymLinks` to _.htaccess_ file `Options` such as like this `Options -MultiViews FollowSymLinks`. Then sometimes I get this _500 Internal Server Error_ error and sometime this *Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data*. Each time I reload my page one of these errors with `FollowSymLinks` option. I also uncomment following lines in `/etc/apache2/httpd.conf`:               LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so     LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so      and still I am getting same permission denied error. Please help me I am trying to solve this problem for past 3 days but it is till unresolved.


Magento mails coming from[ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER

I have a Magento installation, and for certain recipients the transactional emails appear to be coming FROM something like **[ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER** instead of just **FROM SENDER**. I hope that makes sense. How can I fix this ? I know this has something to do with SMTP authentication or PHP mail but I cant find any such settings in magento and I don't know whether it's an issue with the magento settings, the server or the end users email clients. I also have a problem in that the mails send fine to all my own email accounts so I cant actually replicate myself it ( yet ).


Does Google Analytics only track domain names?

I have a Google Analytics (GA) account for an existing site. We're developing a new site on a different live server, and I believe GA is tied to the domain name, not the IP address of the website. With the GA code installed on the development site before launch, once the DNS switch is made, GA should track the new site automatically, correct? Thanks.


Is there something like mathjax for chemical structures?

I am making a website where people can ask and answer questions to bioinformatical matters. I was very delighted with mathjax and its easy use. Is there something like that for chemical structures? Or is there another way I can easily give users a way to view and write chemical structures/chemical equations on my website?


How to retrieve PageRank for a blogger blog?

I know this sounds like a stupid/obvious question, but when I try to retrieve the page rank of my blog using online tools, I don't get any result. My blog is know as http://tshikatshikaaa.blogspot.nl/, and has a subdomain URL pointing to it: http://technotes.tostaky.biz/. Is there any way I can retrieve the PageRank for my blog?


What is a good open source web crawler?

I'm looking for a good open source web crawler and i found these: DataparkSearch, GNU Wget, GRUB, Heritrix, ht://Dig, HTTrack, ICDL, mnoGoSearch, Nutch, Open Search Server, PHP-Crawler, tkWWW Robot, Scrapy, Seeks, YaCy. But I can not decide which is the best to search for products and prices. Does anyone have experience with web crawler and could help me? Only a tip for where i can read something helpful will help so much. If this question was asked in wrong StackExchange site please please tell me which one is correct.


How to generate meta tags for Twitter player card

I am using flow player as video player in my website. Twitter supports player cards which will require some tags to be inserted in our pages provided by twitter. I did the same as mentioned by twitter but not able get approval. They are telling that My website has wrong meta tags. Can some one tell me whats the wrong with my twitter player card.? the following are the meta tags i have inserted.               <meta name="twitter:card" content="player">     <meta name="twitter:site" content="@PSPKfans_in">     <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@PSPKfans_in">     <meta name="twitter:title" content="Pawan Kalyan In India Today Magazine Preview">     <meta name="twitter:description" content="This Video Gives the Preview of the book. Pawan Kalyan In India Today Magazine Preview">     <meta name="twitter:image:src" content="https://www.pspkfans.in/pawankalyanininidatoday.png">     <meta name="twitter:player" content="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.18.swf">     <meta name="twitter:player:stream" content="https://www.pspkfans.in/pawankalyaninindiatoday.mp4">     <meta name="twitter:player:stream:content_type" content="">     <meta name="twitter:player:height" content="960">     <meta name="twitter:player:width" content="964">     <meta name="twitter:player:stream:content_type" content="video/mp4">     <meta name="twitter:domain" content="www.PSPKfans.in">


What's the difference between an addon domain and redirecting any domain to any subdomain?

Most of the server space vendors have two type of product:   1. They say this much space inside that you can park/add NUMBER OF domain   2. Here also that much space inside that you can only park/add ONE domain but you can have number of subdomains. So now in option 2: I have parked one main domain as `abc.com`. I have made one subdomain of that - `demo1.abc.com`. I have bought another domain `xyz.com`. In that domain's control panel I have an option for domain forwarding. Inside that I have forwarding `xyz.com` to `demo1.abc.com` and enable URL masking. In short I have also parked xyz to that space. **So what's the difference between between the two options? In both I can park a number of domains.** Then why does option 1 is have higher price then number option 2? **Also** Now the content of xyz.com would be accessed by both ways:               xyz.com      demo1.abc.com      Typing in this in browser's URL will give same content so does it have any effect on SEO? What if I want to completely hide the detail about `demo1.abc.com` to the outside world?


Is it possible to forward a domain with one subdomain exception?

I have a `www.example.co` as my primary domain and a domain `example.technology` is forwarded to that domain. Now, can I add an exception for `subdomain.example.technology` to this confuguration? If the answer is yes then how?


What could keep a javascript from loading properly on a page?

We have a vendor that switched our files over to a new server. We had a carousel on our homepage that was using javascript saved on the vendor server. After the move the carousel javascript won't load and the carousel is broke (been working for a year and we haven't touched a file). So the odd thing is when I debug in FF I see our css and js for the carousel - I am also using full URLs for everything so it can't be a directory issue (Windows/ASP). Now if I take the links for css and js (they are in the same folder) and try to hit them remotely from my laptop with the carousel code saved locally, the css works but not the js. No js in the folders they gave us work remotely. However I see the js loaded in FF debug. And if I copy the js, save it, and link to my local copy... the carousel works fine. Also if I go directly to the javascript saved on vendor server... it loads fine on a page. What could be going on? Perm issue? Edit: Header info.               Response Headers From Cache     Accept-Ranges   bytes     Content-Length  36927     Content-Type    application/x-javascript     Date    Sun, 25 May 2014 19:55:58 GMT     Etag    "b8387cc1cc77cf1:b88"     Last-Modified   Sun, 25 May 2014 03:52:32 GMT     Server  Microsoft-IIS/6.0     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET


Is there a report in Google Analytics for visit duration for mobile only?

I recently improved the mobile experience of a site and I want to see if it has had an impact. In Google Analytics, can I get a report on the visit duration limited to mobile devices?


How can I convert a series of images to a valid HTML5 MP4 video?

I am attempting to encode a video from an image sequence, for embedding as an HTML5 video. I have managed to encode into the WebM and OGG format successfully (so for example, it works fine in Firefox), but I'm having trouble with the MPEG4/H264 version. I am using ffmpeg as follows:               ffmpeg -i image%04d.bmp -b 1500k -vcodec libx264 %1.mp4      At the moment, this outputs a video that works in Chrome, but does not play in Internet Explorer. (Nor does it play on my Windows Media Player, which usually plays MP4 files fine.) I've tried changing my ffmpeg encoder (I've used a Windows build and a Linux build), and I've tried adding more parameters that I found on the web, e.g. the following:               ffmpeg -i image%04d.bmp -f mp4 -strict experimental -vcodec libx264 -crf 22 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -me_range 16 -subq 6 -g 250 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 1 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128k -ar 44.1k %1.mp4      However, the result is the same. How can I render a video that Windows and IE can display? Note: I have specified the type in both the .htaccess file and inside the HTML5 tags, so that's not the problem. (Also, the page works fine in IE with other mp4 videos, so the problem is definitely with the encoding.) Update: I got this working with a 3rd ffmpeg installation that had some presets, I used "-vpre slow -vpre baseline" and it seemed to work, although the first 2 installations I had don't have these presets. Still, I don't know why these settings should be the difference between a broken file and a working one.


Are inconsistent language tags bad for SEO

Our website offers 3 languages in the following manner:   - **English** : `www.example.org/en` with `<html xml:lang="en" lang="en">`   - **Spanish** : `www.example.org/es` with `<html xml:lang="es" lang="es">`   - **French** : `www.example.org/fr` with `<html xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">` However when we check in `Google Analytics`, we can see that Google has generated much more language tags (some in the form of a `language`, others in the form of `language+region`). ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hLVuH.png) My understanding is that the `<html lang>` tag doesn't dictate how Google considers the content language, instead Google determines the language based on the actual analysis of the content, which I believe shows that our content is actually inconsistent. **Q1: Is this negative to our SEO, and if so in what measure?** When we click on the reported languages, all we see is a pretty useless view which only shows the selected language accounting for 100% of itself: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/D8riX.png) **Q2: Can we see which pages were identified as being of a certain language?**


Suggestion for web application simmilar to wiki+SE

There were plenty of *.stackexchange places in which I could have posed this question. I hope I have chosen the right one. I am looking for an open source wiki/stackexchange like application. The layout of stackexchange is almost fine to me, I'd just like it to be structured a little bit more like a wiki page. There are plenty of options available so I am wondering what would you suggest to me so that it would best fit the following list of requirements:   1. The site would allow users to start new pages about some topic that interests them. There would be a template the OP would have to fill in (description, suggestions, external links) as on a Wiki page   2. On the bottom of every such page there would be a list of "answers" and comments that other users would contribute   3. There is an option to vote every answer. Moreover every post can be voted according to some attributes (importance, usefulness..)   4. Every answer and original post can be edited by anyone as on wikipedia   5. There is a flexible system for rating users (reputation system) Can someone suggest me something that approximates the list of requirements?


Google webmaster tools keeps listing errors about urls that don't apear on my site

Google webmaster tools keeps listing errors on my site about urls such as http://website.com/kulVxMTq1FRqJDMRo 93/f/w8kgNtn9x5EPpXKrKzo= The problem is that I don't have links with such urls and that GWT doest indicate the where it found the link. Is there a way to find where those urls come from?


How to copy Wordpress website within same hosting?

I use bluhost web hosting. I already have `mysite1.com`. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. `mysite2.com`, `mysite3.com`, and so on. All sites will have the same content as `mysite1.com`. How can I do it in fastest possible way ?


University-like web hosting

I recently finished my PhD, and so my student web space is no more. My postdoc institution doesn't offer webspace to postdocs. And now, for the first time in 7 years, I have no website. I've been looking into hosting companies, etc. but I'm having trouble finding one that is the most university-like. For example, I'd like to be able to put some python CGI scripts on, but that's not nearly as common as Perl for support. I'd really like Linux/UNIX hosting and to manage it via SSH and SFTP (web-based uploading would drive me crazy at this point). I was looking into Amazon (having had good results with EC2 for running some time-consuming code awhile back), but I wanted to ask if that would be overkill for a website that doesn't get thousands of hits a week. ... or should I just host it myself? I'm currently, um being loaned internet from a neighbor (I moved a few months ago and haven't needed to get internet yet). But I do have a desktop computer not getting much use and could just buy internet. Also, in the off chance that I _do_ end up getting a lot of hits, I'd much rather it slowed down than costing me tons of money (I don't have advertising on it). I've just been spoiled by university life, and now I need to grow... but not grow up.


Sending Bulk Email/Newsletter (20,000 emails) - our SMTP server vs bulk provider, what software, etc

Wishing to send an email to about 20,000 recipients. Our own SMTP server used for transactional emails I believe is well trusted, we've not heard of deliverability problems, mails go to gmail/yahoo fine. DKIM, SPF, DomainKeys all set up, etc. **What program should we use to send the email?** Would people recommend bulk email software like Sendblaster? Would this handle unsubscribes, etc? **Send via SMTP server or connect direct to theirs?** Know some of this software can connect directly to the the recipients SMTP server. Is this advisable or is sending via a trusted SMTP server better? **Use our own SMTP server vs provider like SendGrid/Critsend?** Presume if we were using bulk email software we'd have to connect to a SMTP service. Are we best sending using one of these services or our own server? My thinking is the bulk sender providers may not have sent emails before to the people we're sending to and as such perhaps our server has better reputation? **If our SMTP server, what software (Windows)?** Currently using SmarterMail, is this up to it or should Update: https://www.senderscore.org/ reports our mail server IP with a score of 99, low delivery risk and very low volume. Any opinions? **Edit:** thanks for the answers so far. Providers like MailChimp are just too expensive for one off emails. Plus they don't seem to like bought lists - in the UK this is fine if the data is collected lawfully under the List Warranty Register - http://www.dma.org.uk/information/ind-listintro.asp


Webmail with option to change password for email account?

Been testing out different webmail options to use (so far AfterLogic, Horde) And it seems that there is no options to change password for user. It's really bad thing that i have to go to server and manually change passwords for users. Is there any webmail solution that will allow me to change password, that also changes on server (as client). Or is it server setting i must use before? Or it is not possible? EDIT: **Note that i have cPanel host.**


Apache rewrite returns error 500

I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with this .htaccess rewrite:               Options -Indexes          RewriteEngine  on     RewriteBase    /test/site/     RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/site/public/page.php?rel=$1 [NC,L,B]      I have an Front end script that handles all of the requests. In my case I don't need or have `index.php/index.html` file in my root project (`/test/site/`). That causes Apache to throw 403 error because of the first line of the code. The code will work only if you access the links as follows:               http://localhost/test/site/public/index     http://localhost/test/site/public/something/else/index.html      But if you enter               http://localhost/test/site/public/      It'll throw 403 error. I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure it out.


Larger text + box in Google Search?

Just curious, but I saw this when searching for "webmasters stack exchange". ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Hp1mM.png) The site seems to get "special treatment" with larger text, extra links underneath the main link, and a box around it. How can a site achieve this prime spot? It's just the first time I've seen this before, so maybe someone can shed some light on this.


One website two CMS

I have a business with two products, lets say boat engines and car engines. Direct from the home page one can click on either cars engines or boat engines. The subpages of each section are then not related. It is almost like two sites with one home page. However there are pages which should be common to both such as "About us" or "Vacancies" etc. My web-designer/programmer built this website with two CMSs. One for boat engines and one for car engines. Both were done with Wordpress. My question is: besides double-entering of content for the common pages, what are the pros and cons of having two CMSs. I expect 40% of my company sales to come through this website, therefore any information about the impact on SEO (positive or negative) would be welcome too.


Pre-defined (canned) contact form messages on your website

I want to know what you guys think of having a contact form on your website with a few pre-defines (canned) messages on your website. I am talking here about a personal website, like a portfolio website. I want to lower the steps you have to take to get in contact me, make it easy for people to send a small massage. I was thinking of something like this. Start with an email box, that is required to fill in. After that a name, not required. Then have 2-3 messages says: 1)Hi, I just want to say hi; 2)Hi I have a job for you!; 3) etc; 4) of course having the option for a custom message. **Your visitor just has to click the message, and it will be emailed.** ===   Security:   I also want to remove the captcha. Just store the IP of the user, and the user can only send 1 message. If the user wants to send another messages then the captcha will popup. ====   Cross-browser.   If people have older browsers and the javascript system is not supportant, then there us just a normal contact box. What do you think of this, are there any problems you can run into?


Slideshows in elastic or fluid layouts?

I'm building a new WordPress TwentyTen child theme using the ElastiCSS framework ( http://elasticss.com/ ) and am trying to figure out the best way of using some sort of dynamic content slideshow. **What is the best way to implement a slideshow in a fluid or elastic layout such that it remains proportional to the other items in the content area?** Should I even bother trying to obtain that? Or should I use like four different sizes in conjunction with something like the Less framework ( http://lessframework.com/ )? Thanks! (BTW, I've posted here because this was more of a "what's the best option" question than a "How do I program that?" question. If you think it would be more appropriate on SO, please move it there.)


CSS images loading extremely slow

I'm having difficulties with the following website : http://ladaily.com/los-angeles Seems like the rendering time of small images (less than 1KB) is extremely slow (over 2+ seconds). Any idea on what can I do? I know a big CSS file is a problem, but I can't do anything now to seperate it – any other idea why it occurs? * * * I think I got if figured , but from some reason images still loading very slow , Do you think it has anything with the server's configuration ?


Website not coming in Search engine results because of a term

We have this site which is named Vialogues (Video+Discussion web based application). https://vialogues.com It has been around for sometime on the internet and we have also submitted sitemap.xml to search engines. However when we search on google or bing or yahoo using the keyword Vialogues, We are given results of the keyword dialogues and this message “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”. I am wondering if it's possible to list the site without the search engine suggesting “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”?


Google analytics and 301 redirects

We have a multilingual website and the first page redirects to specific language page using 301 redirect based on some logic. For example: `http://mysite.com/` redirects to `http://mysite.com/en/` The problem is that these redirects destroy the primary request so we do not get correct results for traffic sources in GA. **How do you handle this case? Is there something that we can do?** Any ideas will be appreciated


Find "secret" port number

this may be kind of an odd question. My friend has challenged me. So somehow, he change the "port" of his site to 31337. If you just go to domain.com, you get redirected to google, to access the real site you go to domain.com:31337. He is going to change it again and he is challenging me to find out which port it is. Is this possible without guessing? Hopefully someone can help! Thanks. Oh, and is this the right stack exchange site to post this on...


Quoting people for website dev. work

I have recently given some quotes to a few people. And I need some advice about how things should be done... **Q1** : I've seen, heard of and read about a lot of developers using free resource sites online to obtain free Privacy Policy, Disclaimers etc for their/customers websites. A customer I quoted the other day **expected** me to write/get a disclaimer for their site. Who in their right mind would expect a document like that from a Web Developer? I just told them that they need to sort that stuff out themselves with a Lawyer or something, and then to send it to me so I can paste it on a webpage for them. **Q2** : If you're charging per hour, and you estimate that the project would take 1week to finish (including testing/releasing), but you soon realise that you'll require more time, do you RE-quote them? Or do you just finish off the site at the original quote price? Q3: How do you figure out how much **you** will charge your customers? Do you charge per-feature, or per hour, or per day, or all of the above? Thanks :)


Other link relationships and impact to the SEO

Example other link relationships               <head>     <link rel='index' title='Main Title' href='http://domain.com/' />     <link rel='start' title='Part Three' href='http://domain.com/part-3/' />     <link rel='prev' title='Part Two' href='http://domain.com/part-2/' />     <link rel='next' title='Part Four' href='http://domain.com/part-4/' />     </head>      Questions Have a big impact to make my site get a nice rank to Search Engine?


How this site is ranked so high in SERP's with no content?

In last few months whenever i search for computer wallpapers (using various keywords), somewhere between 1st and 5th position is always site http://hdw.eweb4.com Everything on that site is scraped from other wallpaper sites and all it do, is to link to external resources (wallpapers). **Question: Why Google rank it so high when there is no real/unique content on it?**


SEO for images: can I use a different (cookieless) domain?

1. We want to increase the value of some of our important images by means of SEO, and   2. we want to start serving them from a different, i.e. cookieless, domain. We want to go from www.example.com/images/1234.jpg to www.example.com/germany/bavaria/landscape.jpg which can easily be done via URL rewriting. Then on the other hand, we would like to serve the image from a completely different domain, let's say www.examplestatic.com/germany/bavaria/landscape.jpg, to save the overhead of sending the cookie from www.example.com. Somehow I feel that this is not a good idea because I move the image away from the content by putting it on a different domain. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Naturally, I would just use a different subdomain, e.g. img.example.com, but we already use subdomains for languages and our cookies are valid for all subdomains of example.com, so this won't help. UPDATE: We are not so much worried about the search-ability of the images themselves, it's rather all about optimizing the pages they appear on. So a telling name/url for an image including a telling `alt` attribute is probably a must have - but my question is about the domain part, if it's a bad idea to use a different domain. But then again, the big players also have dedicated static content domains, e.g. images-amazon.com, ebaystatic.com, ... so there can't be anything wrong with it, can there? END UPDATE I'd really appreciate any hints. Cheers,


Google Analytics and framesets

I have a simple web page hosted in an EC2 machine, using nginx. Let's say my web page is reachable by:               http://<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>/my_web_page      I've put a Google Analytics tracking code inside my page, in the head section. After that, I've bought a domain name, and redirected it to the above address. I've used the "invisible redirection" of my domain provider, to avoid showing the IP in the address bar, and show the domain name instead. As result, my domain provider construct a web page with a `frameset` that contains the real URL of my site. This way:               <FRAMESET ROWS="*,0" FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>         <FRAME SRC="http://<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>/my_web_page" NORESIZE>     </FRAMESET>      The Analytics support page for framed sites says: "We recommend that a site using frames includes the tracking code in the `<head>` section of the frameset (parent) page, as well as directly before the `</head>` tag of each child frame that you want to track." The problem is I don't have access to the "parent" page (the page that contains the frameset code above). I just have access to my page. So, I can't put the tracking code in this "parent" page. Is there a cleaner way of doing this? Am I going to get fake statistics for this reason? Many thanks in advance


What are the boundaries of a day in google analytics?

I thought initally it would be the timezone I have configured, however, this does not seem to reflect the true activity. Or is it only the delay of the data analysis that creates this feeling?


Emigration to UK vs English language skills

I have completed technical secondary school this year (I'm 20) in Poland. I work as freelance web developer for 4 years (PHP very good, MySQL strong basics, HTML excellent, CSS excellent, JS/AJAX/jQuery basics). So I don't have academic education yet. I'm planning to start studying computer science this year, but I hit on an idea to emigrate to London (or Dublin/Amsterdam/Madrit/Barcelona maybe?) for one year, then come back to Poland and start studying here. The goal is to improve my English skills, enhance some work exp, get to know how living abroad looks like, meet new people/cultures. My main fear and problem is English language level. Usually I don't have problems with reading and writing, but speaking and listening is not my strong competence. My English isn't fluent and is not very good currently (I think it's communicative, but in small/middle level). My experience: > 30 websites (with CMS, etc) [within this few bigger portals], few computer programs. I worked in a advertising agency (half year in 2010); now I cooperate for 1,5 year with another ad agency which gives me websites to create. I will try to get references from most of my clients and from my bosses of that advertising agencies. What do you think, do I have some chances to get some job as junior web developer / PHP programmer? Thank you in advance for your help and advices. Regards!!! PS. Why stackexchange throws out "Hi" or "Hello" from the beginning of the post? :O


How to determine the amount to spend per phrase on Adwords research?

My company would like to start a PPC advertising campaign. Whilst I understand the concept and how to set everything up from a technical point of view, this is something I've never done before. Logically, we'd like to test out a wide range of keywords that we _think_ would lead to conversions, which we've put together through brainstorming and with some help from Google's External Keyword Tool. Sub-question whilst I remember - am I correct in thinking that in Google's keyword tool, keywords that we think will perform well that have a low competition yet high monthly searches are _good_ since there will be less advertisers, meaning our bid per click will be less? Is there a common benchmark or process of doing a round of tests with keywords? Should we wait for 100 clicks on each keyword, see which ones have lead to the most sales (or rather, sales that are sustainable with the cost per click of that keyword), then drop the ones which aren't converting and put that budget onto the converting keywords? We realistically have a few hundred keywords/phrases we would like to test, but spending $100 per keyword/phrase is going to work out as quite an expensive test. It would be nice to be able to spend $5-10 per phrase, but I don't think the sample size would be great enough to determine anything usefully reliable. Another approach might be to setup all the keywords, and those that bring the most sales within x hours/days would be the ones we use. **What is the common procedure with things like this?** I know there are a plethora of companies that specialize in exactly this, but this is something we anticipate doing _a lot_ in the future, so it would make sense to do it in house if at all possible.


Can I get Wordpress to upload images etc via FTP instead of the filesystem?

I'm installing a Wordpress blog on a site run from a server farm. We can only upload files through FTP (which gets synced to the web servers). Any file written to the server through the web site is deleted after about 5 minutes. I've found a few FTP plugins for Wordpress, which look like they will allow me to upload files using FTP. The problem is, we need to go to that plugin and upload the files, then go back to the WP post to add them... not very convenient, really. I know Wordpress has FTP capabilities when installing plugins and themes, but is there a way to get Wordpress to use FTP for the main upload manager when writing a post?


What's the best way to create your own website?

I'm currently making plans for creating my own website (.com) and was looking for the cheapest solution possible that gives you the production tools you need. I was wondering, are most websites these days made by "website wizards" or whatever they are called, that you just configure and tweak, or do most websites involve a lot of programming? (I am currently a CS major but need to budget my time so website providers that give you a lot of flexibility and control over how your site works, but minimizes programming would probably be the best solution). I'm basically looking for the most direct way to establish my own website with its own domain name. Probably the most complex service it will need to provide is that (privileged) visitors with an account/password to my website should be able to edit the webpages. There will also be a need to make this visually appealing. Any tips out there are appreciated. Thanks!


Are there any risk if your DNS's SOA or admin contact are using the same domain as the DNS

For example, Google.com [1]   1. The SOA email is : dns-admin.google.com   2. The contact is: Administrative Contact: DNS Admin Google Inc. dns-admin.google.com As you can see, both are using `google.com`, I am thinking it is safe to use the same domain, i.e. consider the case you lost control of the domain, you can receive email also. (Of course Google is a public company so the chance is low, but might occur for smaller company that their domain might be stolen..) So, do you recommend use your the same domain as the contact or others free services such as gmail? [1] http://whois.domaintools.com/google.com


IIS7 as site title

When I search for my website on google both the title and description are showing as IIS7, how can I change this to a proper description?


Wordpress Membership Site

I would like to create a Wordpress Membership site, I would need a plugin with the following functionality :   1. Able to hide pages from non logged in users.   2. New user accounts are created only by the administrator.   3.Users can not access admin dashboard.   4. Each user has a front-end custom profile page editable only by the admin.


Redesigning a live site

First question here so apologies if it's not the right place to ask... I run a very popular website, frequently attracting tens, if not hundreds of thousands of users daily. It's a game, and uptime is of critical importance to most players. Here's the catch: it wasn't meant to be popular. It was initially a programming exercise that I just threw out there expecting it to get a few users, then die off. I was wrong... So, in other words, my dog Patches is now almost three years old, and in thorough need of grooming... but with all the attention he's getting, how can I possibly make it work? I'm thinking the site needs a complete rebuild from the ground up. Heck, it still uses `iframe`s instead of real AJAX! In this way I should be able to build the "new version" and then let users migrate seamlessly. What would be the best way to do this though? Should I have the new version use the same database as the old, or should I clone the database to another server to work on? Should I just work in a subfolder, or subdomain, or a whole new domain? And what would the users think? I mean, the site's been more or less the same amount of butt-ugly for 32 months, would they be thrown off or even alienated by a full redesign? The last thing I want is for all my hard work to send everyone packing. Any advice on this matter would be very much appreciated.


Allow a web designer to modify DNS without letting them transfer the domain?

We are in the process of having a web designer create a new website for us, but I don't want to give access to the control panel for the domain names (and have no way to limit it, it seems), while at the same time I don't want to be the go between guy for editing the settings. Is there a way or a service for me to point the domains at a 3rd party DNS system, that I can then give access for the web designer, without worrying that he can find my personal info or try and transfer my domain out?