What sort of shared hosting can I run a JIRA installation on?

I purchased JIRA a few weeks ago to manage some projects and such and intended to put it on my shared web host. However, it requires a Tomcat server instead of Apache. It comes with a packaged Tomcat server, but when I use this, I get errors about exceeding my accounts memory and CPU limits. Are there any shared hosting providers that can host JIRA successfully? How can I tell which ones will work?


Few small blogposts vs one big blogpost

I have a blog about different Internet and programming topics, and a few posts which have rather good ranking and some traffic. One blog post is about a tool I developed. I make updates to the tool, so now comes the question: Is it better to make a new small blog post containing information about the updates, OR is it better to edit the first bigger post? Which way would rank better or produce more traffic?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there a maximum size that web pages should be kept under? What is the ideal file size for a web page? Specifically when it comes to image sizes, what's the total file size for a webpage which includes several images. I tend to compress images down as much as possible before it starts to visually lose quality. We run several CMS website's and the clients tend to ask this question a lot! I'd love to hear another view on it.


Which comes first DNS or name servers?

Which comes first? DNS or nameservers? Its just I'm editing a domain and want to point it to different hosting servers. Now, normally I'd just set the nameservers to the new hosting nameservers, but this doesn't seem to be working (the control panels not brilliant - doesn't say "accepted" or "success" - and whois searches are turning up nothing - although I should leave it a while longer). Anyway - the point is, in the DNS records there are two A records (one for " " and one for "www") which have an ip address associated with them. So this is what I don't understand. If I change the nameservers, do I have to remove the DNS records? Will name servers "overwrite" a DNS record? Or vice versa? Thank you.


Duplicated Title Tag Problem in Webmaster Tools

I built my website four months ago and was using WordPress. I have my url set up as www.xxx.com/date/title of the post at first hand. After about three months, I change the url to be only www.xxx.com/title of the post. And I get the the duplicated title tags in Google webmaster tools. I just know that it is the worst idea ever to change the post urls after seeing no more traffic from Google. Please suggest me the best way to solve this problem. Here is the screenshot of some duplicated urls. I have hundred of them. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rlWl4.png)


suspicious crawler activity

I'm noticing that I get accesses               66.249.66.198 - - [01/Jul/2011:17:13:46 +0200] "GET /img/clip.incubus.torrent.phtml HTTP/1.1" 404 143 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"     66.249.66.198 - - [01/Jul/2011:17:13:48 +0200] "GET /img/clip.global.deejays.download.phtml HTTP/1.1" 404 143 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"      that files don't exist and there is no file on my site that has this content (I hope). Why is googlebot trying out these links? reverse dns and whois state that 66.249.66.198 is really googlebot.


Looking up IP address of an area, town or State

How can I find the IP of a location? I know I can lookup an IP's physical location anywhere but what about looking up the IP's of a specific area.


Google Analytics: Do unique events report as unique visits when triggered on pages other than your own domain?

We just recently attached a SWF to our Brightcove video player to report various events back to Google Analytics. We're also tracking page views with a standard GA snippet on the page where the player is embedded. As I understand it, because a unique has already been recorded for the page, any event being triggered by the player is getting associated with that unique. However, we allow people to embed the video player on other websites. All of the event data started pouring into the Events section as expected, but we noticed a dramatic uptick in unique visitors on the site (nearly double) while the pageview count stayed relatively unchanged. Disabling event tracking brought the traffic back down to average levels. I should also add that in the Pages section of Event tracking we're seeing URLs for other sites where the player has been embedded; but this data isn't showing up in the Content section. It seems counterintuitive, but does GA count an event fired as a unique visit even if it's triggered from some place other than your website? Is so, there any way to trigger an event in the events section without it reporting to the unique visitor count?


Dedicated Hosting 101

I've been running small websites for years, but recently developed a site that is attracting more traffic than expected. My shared web hosting provider has warned me that this is causing a high load on the server and that I might need to look into getting a dedicated/vps hosting server (which they do not provide). I've never used dedicated or vps hosting, so I don't really know what to look for. Will it be significantly more expensive? Are cloud services like Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure something I should be looking at? Can you recommend a particular service? My site is built using PHP, and I am in Canada, if that helps. Thanks!


Using a trademark as a subdomain?

Let's **imagine** a website that deals with cars: _www.cars.com_ In order to categorize his website, the webmaster decides to create subdomains for the most famous brands:   * ford.cars.com   * chrysler.cars.com   * ferrari.cars.com Would it be legit?


Firefox Addon to override system name resolution for certain host names?

Is there any Firefox plugin that allows to change how Firefox perform name resolution? I want to override the system-wide hostname resolver to attach some IP to certain hostnames. Let me explain. Let's say I'm developing a new website and I want to test using the actual hostname but my site is run by a local webserver, I'd like to do this:               System-wide resolver: www.domain.com ---> 10.20.30.40     Ovveride by addon:    www.domain.com ---> 127.0.0.1      Is there anything like this? Thank you.


SEO and alias domain names

What is the best SEO strategy when aliasing several domains to a primary domain,   * is it "enough" to just set them up as aliases   * is it better to alias them and setup some kind of rewrite rules to make the content look like separate domains    * is it better to set them up as landing pages with slightly different content & then redirect to the main site?  or are there better ways I haven't considered? -thanks -sean


How to hide the admin login form?

In my website there are no accounts except for those of moderators and administrators. That's why I don't want to show the login form to everyone but to these people. I thought of using a weird URL for the login form like `www.example.com/1a79a4d60de6718e8e5b326e338ae533` that only admins and mods would know. But it's a quite impractical solution, besides if someone would want to login in another computer and forgets this URL, then is unable to. Is there any more effective way?


Copying content from other(news) website?

I copied the news article from different sources for more than 2 years and now I'm copying the content & specifying the canonical URL of source websites(hope this is the correct way to do it [ **correct me if I'm wrong** ]). but my question is what should I do to the previous posts, I have no idea on where I copied those articles and obviously it have more than 2000 pages, So I'm unable to do canonical tag for the previous posts, how should I fix this ? (or) will I leave those articles as it is ? please suggest me a solution! Please don't mark duplicate with What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site? I already read that post, here my situation is different.


backlinks's effect on SEO

All websites and blogs with more backlinks have their posts on 1-2 pages in SERPs. I have one question that if will increase backlinks of my website then my website can also get higher position in search engine results?


Stopping Google index some web pages I have

I have some web pages that google has indexed. Now I added a robots.txt file to exclude them but should I also add a “noindex” tag and if so then how can I best add this?


This address should never have been indexed, how can I properly remove it?

I have a couple of subdomains on my website that I use for various purposes and I don't want/need them to be indexed by search engines. From the very beginning, since I created them, I added a `robots.txt` file to disallow search engines from crawling those pages. Now, I know that this does not enforce anything, it's just a "guideline" for search engines. But in respect to Google, they have lots of help documents suggesting the use of robots.txt, so I believe they respect that file. Anyway, one of those sub domains is still indexed and I can't understand why. Like I said, this has been created with the disallow rules in robots.txt since the very beginning that sub domain went life and it's been running like this for 2 years or so. Still, I just noticed this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DAFKt.png) **How can I permanently get rid of this indexed result on Google?** For the record, Bing and Yahoo! don't have a result for the same query...


Allowing users to purchase multiple products at a time using Google checkout

Customers currently can't purchase more than 1 product at a time with Google Checkout. For example, a customer wants to purchase 5 of the same product; the quantity will pass to Google Checkout page, but after placing the order using Google Checkout it will count it as one product. Right now when you put in 2 items in the shopping cart and Google Checkout only calculates the shipping for the ORDER not for EACH ITEM. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot!


Google Analytics of Blogger site (with Content Warning)

I have applied the following Google services to my Blogger site (with Content Warning enabled):   * Google Analytics   * Google AdSense However, I cannot obtain 2 sets of web statistics data from Blogger's Statistics tab, Analytics, and AdSense. Google Analytics receive "Access Denied" warning in In-Page Analysis too. Example:   * Blogger's Statistics tab shows 88 visits per day   * Google Analytics show 0 visit per day (Note 1)   * Google AdSense show 0 visit per day (Note 1) All are Google's service, but why am I receiving different data? Also, AdSense is not gaining money but the ads are showing up in my blog. **Note 1:** I have set up URL Channel in AdSense & Analytics, but no data is shown. p.s. Google Analytics status is "Receiving Data", and it does record visits on the first day when the blog is using traditional layout. Blogger site is now using "Dynamic layout".


How UTF-8 represents more than 256 characters and when to use UTF-16?

We all know what character encoding is. Like the simple ASCII 7 bit used for normal 128 characters representing and `UTF-8` for representing 256 characters. I have 2 questions:   1. Some people saying `UTF-8` can represent more than 256 characters. How this is possible?   2. When to use `UTF-16`? Like which condition e.g. if we have to use japanese or some other language?


Proper usage of <title>, <header>, <h1> and <h2> in a HTML5 website?

I have been studying this subject for several days and have found many conflicting suggestions with regards to search indexing. I am working on a project which has a lot of different pages ranging from simple product descriptions to in-depth user documentation. I have broken this question down into sections since I feel that this will make it more useful for future readers of this question. ## Some of my findings Several websites seem to have assumed document outlines like the following:               1. Programmer's Guide  (https://www.dartlang.org/docs/)         1. Getting Started         2. Concepts             1. Libraries             2. Fundamental classes             etc.      I find it interesting that the above example does not utilise the `<nav>` element with a suitable heading. I like the simplicity of the outline and being Google I am fairly certain that they know what they are doing when it comes to this. But I am confused since the above outline makes no mention of "Dart". The only mention of "Dart" in the semantic sense seems to be within the main document `<title>` element "Programmer's Guide | Dart: Structured web apps". The MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) is another brilliant example of a website which follows this principal. Many of the `<h1>` titles provide full context (Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document):               1. Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document         1. Untitled Section (nav)         2. Untitled Section (nav)         3. Structure of a Document in HTML 4         4. Problems Solved by HTML5      Whilst others do not make much sense out of context (Obsolete practices to avoid). For example, does the following HTML5 outline relate to CSS, HTML5 or C#... with just the document outline to go by, who knows!               1. Obsolete practices to avoid         1. Untitled Section (nav)         2. Untitled Section (nav)         3. Doctype         4. <meta> element and charset attribute      To make matters worst, what if the MDN contained 2 topics with the same (or very similar) title "Obsolete practices to avoid" where one is part of their CSS guide and the other is part of their HTML guide... On the other end of the spectrum websites seem to use the main `<body>`-level heading for the product name (Foo) or the topic container (User Guide for Foo). Where all subsequent pages then use `<h2>` for the actual page title. ## The question How do search engines infer the context of a webpage like those found on the MDN website using the DOM and the HTML5 outline? What is the right way to markup the following HTML5 page so that Google can index the page in the suitable context? This includes usage of `<title>`, `<header>` and `<h1>` elements.   * Company Name   * Product Name   * User Guide   * Getting Started The most significant heading in the HTML which gets viewed in a web browser, should this represent the context of the entire website (Company Name or Product Name), the collection of topics (User Guide) or the actual topic in hand (Getting Started)? ## My best guess               <!DOCTYPE html>                   <title>Getting Started | User Guide | Product Name - Company Name</title>                                 Company Name
Site Navigation

 ...

Product Name

User Guide

Getting Started

blah
                         Leading to the outline:               1. Getting Started


Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag

I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs. For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to prevent them being indexed. However, for some of the URLs, I have `"noindex, nofollow"` meta tags as follows:               <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="bingbot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="msnbot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="slurp" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="teoma" content="noindex, follow" />      I have read that Google will sometimes index pages that you block in robots.txt if they find another link that points to the page, but supposedly they respect meta tags?


Webmaster tools showing 404 for non existent folder pages

Google webmaster tools is reporting some/many 404 urls that don't exist on my site. The links are things such as domain.com/xyz/ However that doesn't exist, but domain.com/xyz/index.html does exist. The "linked from" pages all show proper links to the "/xyz/index.html". The page without index.html DOES 404, but why is google even trying these urls if they are not linked to? My real question, is there a way to have google stop attempting to load these pages, and ultimately remove these from the crawl errors report. Thanks.


Over 400 old 404 errors, safe to remove?

I have over 400 old 404 errors showing up in Google web-masters tools, the date on them is from before I uploaded the new sitemap and I wondered 2 things:   1. Why are they still showing up   2. Can i remove them using the mark as fixed option? TIA. Stephen


Buy internet country domain name: .fr .co.uk .de .com.au .sg etc

I already bought a domain name .com on godaddy for my company. I would like to reserve the same name with country specific domain extention, but not sure where to buy them and how to do it. Here are the ones that I would like to buy: Europe: fr, co.uk, de, ch, es, it, nl, se, no, ru australia: com.au asia: sg Godaddy has all except 1 in europe, australia and singapore. Should I find a website that sell all of them or should I buy some of them in godaddy and others elsewhere? Any suggestions where to buy them? Until now i've always buy .com domain names only so not sure how to do it. Thanks


Is it normal to have some huge anomolies in Google Analytics site speed tracking?

I've recently started using the new `_trackPageLoadTime` function in Google Analytics to measure page load times. However, I have noticed a few pages appear with a huge "Average Load Time". One page is showing a time of 556.22 seconds! Several other pages show average times of 30+ seconds. Clicking through to the page detail shows that the highest average times are the result of 1 really long load time of 100+ seconds (and most of the top ones only have a "Page Load Sample" of 1 or 2 people). Are these just anomalies where the user lost connection or something? Is there any way to view the data without those anomalies?


What kind of SSL do I have?

I am maintaining a site for someone. He needs to know what type of SSL the site has because that data has to submitted to his bank. I've never been asked such a question. I have cpanel access. But I don't know how to figure out what "type" of ssl is installed. Is there a way to print a report and give that to the bank? I thank you in advance for your assistance.


Keep visitors out of server directories and redirect

The web application I use (Zenphoto) stores images in /albums and subfolders. It's backend needs r/w-access to those folders and I need r/w-access to the folders via ftp, but the frontend never looks into /albums. Now I want to keep visitors from directly accessing /albums and all subalbums I did a lot of research and found that a .htaccess in /albums with `deny from all` would accomplish that. However, I would prefer a redirection to my 404 page. What I made from a similar use case is I could do that in my root's htaccess. I added `RewriteRule ^albums/.* /404 [R,NC]` Because the similar usecase was very different in terms of motivation, my questions are:   1. Is it an appropriate solution?   2. Does it really accomplish what I want or can it be circumvented?


How can I create a dynamic site that is still search-bot friendly?

If I want to have a slide effect between pages. You click a link, it is loaded off to the side and then slides in (pushing the old page off the other side). I can imagine using jQuery to do the PHP and the effects... but **how do I do something like this that gracefully degrades for users without Javascript, including bots?** Possibly more problematic: what if I wanted to have a sort of mural background across the site, perhaps with a parallax scrolling effect, and sliding to other pages reveals more of the, possibly giant image? Again, I can imagine how to do this with lots of fancy jQuery and PHP but it would heavily rely on those. How can I gracefully degrade in a situation like that? Any pointers, articles or books would be greatly appreciated. I keep trying to search for answers but I just get a lot of "theory"-based, unhelpful blogs.


Can I include structured data type to display tax due dates?

I tried to add structured data in my site in order to display due dates of tax deadline in search engine results page. But I don't know which data type to select. Can I include structured data to display tax due dates?


Does HTML encoded content affect SEO of a page?

Let's say the page has an `<h1>` tag with the title:
Page title
      and then in the post content there is an HTML tutorial which has an `<h1>` tag which is encoded:               <h1>Example<h1>      Does this affect SEO? Would Google consider the second one also as an `<h1>` tag and get confused about which is the real or correct `<h1>` heading?


Server Error after trying to update the functions.php

I recently tried to change the logo on Genesis themed WordPress site using this tutorial:               http://anewtab.com/add-logo-genesis-theme      I added               add_theme_support( 'genesis-custom-header', array( 'width' => 960, 'h      To Dashboard->Editor->functions.php as said in the tutorial, and updated the theme. It didn't really work as I hoped so I deleted the same line and updated it, now I get the server error as below and can't access to my site. I get this message when I try to access to my site.               Server error     The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.vivatveritas.com/wp-admin/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.     Here are some suggestions:     Reload this webpage later.     HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.      What should I do?


How do I choose a domain name based on monthly searches for keywords?

Suppose I have 3 domain name phrases:   1. thisisfirst.com (competition is 11% and global monthly search is 151,000,000)   2. thisissecond.com (competition is 5% and global monthly search is 33,50,000)   3. thisisthird.com (competition is 1%, global monthly search is 49,500, local search is 3,600) How can I decide which domain to use?


SEO for Main Navigations

My question is simple... To what extent does your primary navigation [and secondary navigations] have on SEO for your website? My particular case is this: I have "two" primary navigations. One that is served with specific styling for desktop users, and the other which serves styling for mobile users. By separate, I do mean I had two separate chunks of HTML for each. The primary navigation for the desktop was contained within `<nav>` tags, the other primary nav for mobile was just some `<div>`s with an ID That said, I combined these two HTML structure and the styles, the thinking was that I should have only one primary navigation. Now, a few months later I need to re-style the desktop side navigation, and it is proving very difficult as my mobile nav is very complex. My task would be 100 times easier if I could simply move back to having two separate HTML structures ofr the two separate navs. When browsing via mobile, the first set of html is set to display: none; and second set is display: block; Inverse that for browsing from Desktop. So Ultimately... **Is it safe SEO wise to have two "iterations" of my primary navigation, one using`<nav>` and one using `<div id="nav">`?**


How do I decide which domain name will rank better for my keywords?

If I want to target the keyword phrases "make fun", "make fun of", and "how to make fun of", which is the best domain to choose of the following three and why?   * makefun.com   * makefunof.com   * howtomakefunof.com Also, would it be good to purchase all three domain names and, if so, what should I do with them?


Different result on Google search and browser

A site is using one of my clients' registered trademark to get a good rank on Google search. When I search with that keyword I find that site on top of the search result but when I check that page with my browser and read the page source the keyword is not there! Recently we told that website admin to remove it and they told us that they've removed it. I requested support at Google to remove that page from cache but Google told us that **the cached pages could not be removed because the content, "-----------" is still active on the pages.** I need help to start how to find this content on that page.


How can I offer two different packages of a product with two different prices in Magneto?

I wish to offer an item for sale as two different packages. Package 1 will be the product by itself and Package 2 will be the product with a free gift. How do I do this in Magento?


Multiple mini websites on a domain

I need to create about 500 different mini websites on the same domain. So that `www.mydomain.com` displays the general information, and `www.mydomain.com/site1` displays the information for `site1` (as a mini- website) and so on. Each mini-website can have a number of webpages.   Ideally, but not importantly, each mini website would have its own theme. I don't want to install a cms 500 times to achieve this, so I am wondering what other options are available. Could you please suggest? Thanks. Any questions let me know. Please note that search option is an important feature, for example, if I am visiting `www.mydomain.com/site444`, and search for "text" then it should search within `site444` only (maybe to have a radio option to choose between search `site wide` or on `site444` only etc?).


Just really confused about setting up my site on Amazon EC2

So I have a site that is developed in ASP.NET MVC2. I use a local instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 to test with, and that's where all my tables/stored procs/etc. are. Now, I want find a web server for the site and make it available to the public, and still use SQL Server as the back-end so I can just like, copy my settings over and not have to change anything. Someone brought up Amazon EC2 to me. They said I can serve my site there, and have it work exactly the same (run on a Windows Server and use a SQL Server back-end). I have NO IDEA how to go about this. I've read through http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ and it just confuses the hell out of me. I've never done something like this before. All of the different plans confuse me. Do they include data storage? Why do they say something like > 160 GB of local instance storage when talking about one of their Standard Instance plans, but then at the bottom, Data Storage prices are talked about separately? Would I have to change anything about the way my application sends/receives data from SQL Server in order to have it up and running to the public using Amazons service? Also, do I just like...copy all of my code over to Windows Server, set it up in IIS, copy my database into their SQL Server instance, and it's good to go? I'm just really really confused, and I hope someone hear can shed some light on everything for me.


How to make sure Facebook knows that you're a publisher, not a brand?

The past couple Facebook EdgeRank updates have penalized blatant advertisers & linkbait publishers like Upworthy, making it more difficult for many brand pages to get organic distribution. And it appears it will soon get even more difficult to achieve organic reach, especially for "brand" pages. How does Facebook determine what pages are owned by brands, and which are owned by publishers of substantive content. Are pages manually reviewed and added to a whitelist? Or is it all algorithmically determined. And is there anything a page manager can do to ensure his/her posts are viewed by Facebook as content and not an ad?


Regarding SEO, is repeating some content in different pages considered as keyword stuffing?

We know that repeating keywords in one page is spam and Google calls it keyword stuffing. But, if we repeat some content in all pages of a website to help users, is it keyword stuffing too? For example we have 200 unique words in each page and about 200 other words to describe how to download and how to buy and what other services you may get from this website and etc. Or if we repeat some keyword in `<title>` of all pages like this:   * `Download PDF: Article one`   * `Download PDF: Article two`   * `Download PDF: Article three`   * etc. Is repeating **`Download PDF : Article`** in titles, spam or keyword stuffing? If not, is it a positive point to get more visitor from Google?


(Google) Title of page not updated, everything else did

My website changed significantly this month. Amongst the changes was the website's title. Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page. So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated the title in the search results, but not Google. I've resubmitted via Webmaster Tools the website, and the bots have crawled the page, and have added "content keywords". But the title still doesn't match. The "content keywords" lists many of the words in the new title (but contains keywords of the existing title also). Must say that 4 of the top 5 key words in the "significance" list are the new title's. Still, no change. Any remedies for this problem? Is adding the "alt" tag for the logo significant enough to trigger the change? There isn't an appropriate place to put the company name between tags on the front page. Any suggestions? Thanks.


WordPress keeps redirecting my users to install.php, Is it caused by an injection hack?

I don't really know how to express my problem, so bear with me. This is a bit hard to explain. I have a Wordpress installation, the latest, and often (once a day) my site redirects users to the `/wp-admin/install.php` file. Asking for my login credentials of course. I have tried reinstalling WordPress and still have not been able to figure what they are doing. That happens regularly. Also, a few hours later, I am able to see my site normally. Hope this makes sense. I suspect there myst be some database DoS that allows them to inject a redirect of some sort into my admin area, thus redirecting the user to said directory (`install.php`). But that's just me. I really have no clue what else could they be doing. I looked at the source code from several php files and noted some of them don't include a ?> tag. Could that be an issue? My hosting company is iPage, I've contacted them and they say there's nothing wrong with my files. Anyone have a clue? I can paste the code to any source file.


Why does navigating to http:// then redirect to https:// give mixed content warning?

If I directly navigate to `https://scotthelme.co.uk` I get a green TLS indicator in the address bar. If I navigate to `http://scotthelme.com` which issues a 301 to `https://scotthelme.co.uk` I get a mixed content warning. The console in Chrome dev tools can't seem to tell me what the content loaded over http:// is, how do I find / what is the cause of the mixed content warning?


Is it possible to purchase a dedicated IP without hosting?

I require a static IP address for the sole purpose of fowarding to an existing domain. Is this possible? Does such a service exist? I am not interested in dedicated IP addons to hosting or any hosting at all.


Which image sharing websites supports file uploading dynamically via api

I have been searching for image hosting website that displays images of a user in a nice and managed way. I want to upload the files to that image hosting website in my account of that website from a page in my website. i.e if i have a website `abc.com` then user browse my website `abc.com`. Uploads the file to my website. Now I want to transfer the uploaded file to the image hosting website so that it can be viewed by other users of that hosting website and get better visibility to world


The danger of changing the domain of your portfolio

So I have a online portfolio that is available at mervin-ux-portfolio.com but I am planning to change hosts since the current host I am hosting it with is hitting me with a very high yearly renewal rate. When I was inquiring about domain transfers ,,they told me that since I had not initiated the domain transfer within 14 days of the expiry of the domain ,they cannot do it immediately and it would take about two weeks to to release the domain name. Since I dont like the idea of my site being down for like 2 weeks ,I was wondering if I should start afresh with a new domain on a new host and what were the potential dangers of that ( I have the entire site backup,so creating a replica of the site on the new host wont be hard) I also wont be losing any business or work since I work full time currently but I was just wondering about the challenges in terms of getting my domain name back to the top of search results and basically getting it out there assuming I go the new domain name approach. I know this is strictly not an UX question but I was hoping people could give some suggestions on what I should do


How can I call a URL as a cron job in Webmin?

(Possibly this belongs on stackoverflow, although it's not really a programming issue since the code works when run directly. If it needs to be moved, though, no problem.) I have a PHP file (which consumers a National Weather Service web service via SOAP, if it matters) that I need to run on a scheduled basis. I'm trying to set up a cron job in Webmin. If I use an absolute path to the file in the Command field, when I run it I get some strange errors:               /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 2: //: is a directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 3: //DOCUMENTATION: No such file or directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 4: //: is a directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `"running client code",'     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 5: `error_log("running client code", 1, "myemail@gmail.com");'      The actual code in my file for those 5 lines looks like this:               <?php     //  ***************************************************************************     //DOCUMENTATION FROM WEATHER.GOV ALL STORED IN xmlClientComments.txt     //  ***************************************************************************     error_log("running client code", 1, "myemail@gmail.com");      The code runs perfectly fine when I run it directly in my browser, so why doesn't webmin recognize it as code? (The same thing happens if I enter the actual URL in the command field - http://mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php.) I've never worked with webmin before; most of our hosts' cron control panels allow cron jobs to run PHP files like this with no issue. Is there some trick to getting webmin to read php as actual php?


A domain that redirects to my site is ranked higher

I have recently migrated my hosting provider and realised that when I did I had a lot of domains that didn't point anywhere or weren't in use. During the migration I just decided to 301 them all towards my blog rather than just have them being unused. As it turns out, over the course of the last 3 days one of these domains is now more highly ranked than my blog and I'm not sure what's happening. If you Google my name I want my blog to appear as high up as possible: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=scott+helme. My blog is the 2nd result (for me) and should be `scotthelme.co.uk` and not `eve-bay.co.uk` which is showing as if it were my blog. What has happened here? I wouldn't think a 301 would cause this behaviour and what remedy would you suggest?


New website, plans to go large. How do you protect yourself?

I'm planning to create a new site that (in hopes) will make it to a decent state of popularity and use. I have made sites before, but they weren't serious, with any intended purpose other than personal and friend use. I've never been able to find a solid post on good steps to protecting yourself, and your site/idea before you start. This site will always be free, and will not be bringing it any revenue by ads or whatnot, but I plan to in the future and would want to make I'm in the clear legally for one. Do you need to copyright anything? Or anything of the same concept as copyright? Do I make an LLC to operate it under? Apologies for this extremely poorly written question, basically I want to be both legal, and I want to make sure nobody can just rip my idea or name(s). (I'm sure this will be more concise as questions here are asked) Thanks


Browser window size statistics?

I was wondering, are there any statistics available on what size users have their browser set to nowadays? I know the screen resolutions (we have analytics, which shows those as well) but I doubt a lot of people with 1280*xxx and higher still browse full-screen though. My boss is determined to keep our website 900px wide though, because that way people with 1800*xxx resolutions can have two browser windows next to eachother without having to scroll horizontally. I have never seen anyone browse with two adjacent browser windows like that except here at my current job, so I'm kind of doubting whether this is the best decision or just his personal preference. Anyone that can help out here?


Background noise generator

I want to make a noise background. Do you have any recommendation for texture generators? I want to input color, noise density and the tile size and get a png image. This is an example of such generator, but I want to try others: http://www.noisetexturegenerator.com


How to add button on each MediaWiki article?

I would like a button to appear on each article on my MediaWiki site, to make it easy to flag articles that should be reviewed. When the button is clicked it should add the category "review", and if the category is already there, it should remove the category from the article. **Question** Is this possible first of all? And if, does anyone know of code that is close to this, that I can modify?


With Google DFP (Small Business) is it possible to disable AdSense in an Ad Slot on a per-request basis?

**Setup** : I run a network of websites that target different hobby niches and have a section dedicated to community classifieds. I serve advertising on these sites through Google DFP for Small Business with AdSense enabled on the slots. **Problem** : One of the next sites in my network will be targeting the firearms/shooting industry and as such the classifieds section will not comply with the prohibited content guidelines of AdSense regarding the sale (or coordination of sale) of weapons. I work very hard to comply with the guidelines of my partners even if I don't understand/agree with them and after talking with many people have decided that the best option is to disable AdSense serving on that section of that website, while leaving it on for the rest of the network. **Solution** : Right now my only idea for this is to duplicate all my site's ad slots and tack a "_sensitive" onto the end of each one (eg. header and header_sensitive) conditionally registering ad slots based on whether or not I am in the sensitive section of the sensitive site. My hope however is that there may be a way to accomplish this without duplicating all my ad slots possibly with some sort of options to the GA_googleFillSlot() call that allows me to say "load ads from this slot but do not serve AdSense no matter what."


Spammers or Spam bots clicking Adwords ads?

One of my sites has a very high bounce rate from Google Adwords, especially over the last couple of days. Of course, it could just be that people are not finding the site relevant. But I'm wondering if it could be spambots or something like this. Can spambots click Google Adwords ads? Or do human spammers tend to click Adwords ads to find places to spam?


How can I see in Google Analytics where my users came from?

I am using Google Analitics and struggling to find where my users came from. I can see demographics (country / city) information, but struggling to find what site have they came from. I found this answer: > From your dashboard on the left side click > >   * Traffic Source >   * Sources >   * All Traffic > But can not see this on my left side. It has   * Dashboards   * Shortcuts   * Intelligence Events   * Real-Time   * Audience   * Acquisition   * Behavior   * Conversions Can someone help me?


Separate "Editor" domain for single Plone Site

We currently run our Plone site across two servers, one (our DB server) that hosts the Data.fs & blobstorage and only runs the Zeoserver, and another (our App server) that runs four clients which are pointed to the DB server. We are looking to move to 2 App servers. Our goal is to have all users browse our site using App1, and then anytime a content manager needs to modify their content they will be directed to App2. This way all content management activity is on a separate server from user's and will not affect speed for them during our peak hours. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach this or if there is a better strategy for Plone site to keep the management stress from bogging down the user speed? We are using Windows Server 2008 running IIS 7 with Isapi Rewrite 3 to set the domain/rewrite rules, do SSO with Active Directory, and so on. Then our Plone servers are running on Linux boxes on RedHat running the configuration described above. We are setting up a 2nd URL through DNS for the 2nd App server as well (something like edit.example.com) We would like to make it as easy on the content managers as possible. So our idea is, everyone goes to our site (example.com), then if they choose Edit, Check-out, Workflow, etc... it points that activity to the 2nd App server (edit.example.com). This way the managers don't have to keep up with 2 URLs, and when they are just browsing the site and not editing, they will be using the first server so it will be faster. We have something like 200+ content managers, and thousands of users, and the content managers are users for 90% of the site and only manage 10% of the site each....hope that made sense. Sorry for the long question, this is my first question here and I wanted to provide as much information as possible. Let me know if I can provide any additional information. Your time and help is much appreciated!


Two websites at the same host but on different accounts to use the same database

I have 2 websites and would like to use the same database for both sites. The MySQL database contains just a simple guestbook. The websites are one seperate hosting accounts, but with the same host. I'm looking to link the two sites to the database. Does anyone know if or how this is possible?


Fonts: Is changing the default font a good practice?

I've searched PW, but I saw that no one has asked specifically yet. Is changing the default font a good practice for the main body font? What are the pros and cons to using different fonts? This includes only font families, and excludes size, color, decoration, etc.


Is paypal's IPN reliable enough?

I am creating my first ever major plugin for Wordpress and I intend to share it to the community. It integrates paypal's subscription button which is very useful for people who wishe to build a membership site using Wordpress. Question: Is IPN reliable enough that there's no need to control the subscription thru cron myself? I have not tested my plugin for a span of a month or so though because doing so would eat a lot of my time.


Where can I buy .ar domain names?

I am having trouble finding a registrar that allows the purchase of one-off .ar domains.


Is (was) SEO the only reason to force the www. on domain names?

Following on from a response to the question Force www. on multi domain site and retain http or https - I was wondering if SEO (specifically, avoiding duplicate content penalties) was the only reason for forcing the www. (or vice versa, if you prefer). Are there any other reasons why an authoritative domain name/convention would be desirable?


Email not sending to/from all Microsoft domains after adding dedicated IP and SSL (Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo!)

I have never experienced this type of issue before, so I don't know where to begin searching to be able to troubleshoot or fix the problem. Also, I hope this is the correct SE website for this type of question. I launched a website last month for a friend's business and helped him set up his email, etc. The site is hosted on my turnkeyinternet.net reseller account. It is the Professional I account. A few days ago he needed to add SSL and, obviously, a dedicated IP. The reseller account comes with 2 free dedicated IP addresses and a free OneClick SSL. I gave him one of my dedicated IPs and the OneClick SSL. TurnKey set up both of these for me. The IP two days ago and the SSL yesterday. Today, my friend called me and told me that one of his clients was getting a bounce-back email when trying to send him an email at his domain name. His client said it first happened two days ago (the same day TurnKey set up the dedicated IP). This was from a @hotmail.com account. I began testing and found that this issue was with all Miscrsoft affiliated addresses: Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Live (and I assume any professional email addresses hosted by these services or that use these as an email client). I confirmed with my friend AND his client that prior to the changes made by TurnKey, they were both sending and receiving each other's emails. I contacted TurnKey and their response was: "Nothing has changed on our end as far as the mail server/DNS. It seems these providers are simply blocking email sent to the IP in question. Yahoo/hotmail are blocking the emails so it's up to them to whitelist or allow them to go through." His website does not have a newsletter and he hasn't sent mass mail. It is obvious to me that whatever changes TurnKey made caused this issue. They will not help me and I don't know where to begin to troubleshoot. **UPDATE** I received an email from TurnKey this morning stating, again - "This has nothing to do with any IP or SSL's being recently changed/updated/installed or otherwise." However, my friend called me and said he tested everything again this morning and everything is working correctly with Microsoft email addresses. This makes me wonder if TurnKey discovered their mistake, fixed it, then lied about making the mistake.


When advertising on Facebook, avoid paying for comments, likes, and shares

We have an ad campaign running on Facebook. Our goal is to get users to subscribe to our newsletter by visiting the site and subscribing. We noticed a discrepancy between the number of clicks recorded in Google Analytics (600) and the number of clicks billed by Facebook (1000). It turns out that the 600 clicks that we see are what Facebook calles "website clicks". The other "clicks" are all activity on Facebook itself: likes, share, and comments. When I started this campaign, I had no idea that Facebook would be charging me for comments, likes, and shares. Those activities can in no way contribute to my goal of getting users to subscribe and I would like to avoid being charged for them. Which of these options are available?   * Run a cost per action (CPA) campaign on Facebook   * Configure my campaign to only bill for website clicks   * Disable likes, share, and comments on my ads   * Lower my bids by 40% to account for the clicks that are not website clicks * * * By this point, we experimented with lowing our bids. It doesn't seem to help much. Here is a summary of the bids we have tried:   * 45¢ bid -- 60¢ per website click   * 25¢ bid -- 62¢ per website click   * 16¢ bid -- 58¢ per website click It appears that as you decrease your bid, Facebook shows the ad to users that are more likely to like and share and less likely to click on your website.


Effects of Active Virus Scanner on WebApp for XS Azure VM

Suppose a public WebApp is hosted on an EXtra Small (XS) Azure Virtual Machine (VM). What benefits and/or performance problems might visitors experience if a Memory-Resident Virus Scanner is run on that VM?


community driven video platform

I am looking for a platform to build a community-driven education video site. We already have quite a few community web-apps runing on python/django, so something based on these technologies would be easier to integrate with the existing apps. The content will also include recorded courses, so integration with course-capturing tools is a desired feature. Kaltura seems to provide many of the things I'm looking for, but the Python support seem to be on early stages. Any suggestions?


How to Unlock the Not Set Keywords in Google Analytics?

I am getting “not set” in keyword report section of Google Analytics data. May I know any method to retrieve the search terms/ keywords from the not set data? May I know what are the factors that can result in showing the “not set” result in Google Analytics?


Is more weight given to links in heading tags in terms of SEO?

Do links in heading tags on a website give more weight than links in normal text?


Rewriting half of a low-ranking article - is it better to delete it and create a new webpage?

There's an article on my blog, half of which I'm thinking of rewriting, and this got me thinking. Is it a better idea to delete the article, rewrite the second half, then repost it on a new webpage - or is it better to keep the original webpage and rewrite the second half there? On one hand, the article has currently fallen in ranking for some of the keywords I wanted, so it might have racked up a bad reputation based on how readers respond to it (% people clicking back onto the SERPs, average visit time etc.) which might be detrimental to the rewritten article on the same page. On the other hand, it does have some links and Facebook likes - and the duplicate content which comes from the first half of the original post might be detrimental for the new webpage. Any takes on this? Let me know if there's any other information you need. Thank you.


How do I specify the Google sitemap generator destination directory

Is there a way to specify the location of generated sitemap files using the lastest version of the Google Sitemap Generator? _Version is: 1.0.0.0? (a very un-google version number, lol):_               > sudo /usr/local/google-sitemap-generator/bin/sitemap-daemon -v     Google Sitemap Generator (Beta) Version [1.0.0.0]      The dashboard has a option of " _Sitemap file name_ " but there is no option to specify the destination directory? It always places the generated sitemap XML files in the **document root**. I assume it _discovers_ the document root from reading the webserver logs. > _Why do I want to put the sitemap files in another directory?_ The document root is **no good** for our deployment method because it is a symlink to the current deployment directory which changes daily. In order for the sitemaps to appear as if they are at the url root (i.e. `http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml`), we use a alias rule to map XML files to where we actually keep them, e.g. using nginx:               # Alias all XML files (e.g. Rss) to shared directory     location ~* /(.*\.xml)$ {         alias /var/www/live/shared/xml/$1;         }


IP Address headers (Remote_Addr) - When is this header sent by the browser?

I want to know when a browser includes the header - `Remote_Addr` in the HTTP request. I observed the request sent by the browser on loading `stackoverflow.com`, in the web console window of Firefox. There were no headers pertaining to IP address sent. So, does this mean the browser never sends this header along with a HTTP request?


SEO Removal Time?

I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here. I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to know is:   * How **long will it take** to bring down my Website being listed from Search Engine Results?


Will content from my site's RSS feed that is published on other sites be considered duplicate content by search engines?

I know Google is giving a penalties for websites with duplicate content. What happens if I'm having an RSS feed with news articles and other sites publishes on their website my news? Isn't it duplicate content?


Does Google read JPEG comments?

I usually add some description in the JPEG comment when I'm exporting images from GIMP. I was wondering if Google will read those descriptions and show the images when I search for their description. Also what about other search engines?


Can Google AdSense be approved and run on a creative site with original wallpaper art and little text content?

I like to make creative images like on happy new year and other topics. It's a fun thing to do. I had a WordPress blog and I used to get a lot of visitors: once it hit 10,000 a day. So I applied for Google AdSense. I got rejected and the reason they mentioned was "Too little content". At that time my blog had 200 creative wallpapers created by me. Then I purchased a domain name and set up my website on that and now I have a big collection. I want to apply for AdSense so I Googled and found many helpful articles about what to include and what not to. I made those changes but there is one particular thing that I am seriously confused about. Everywhere says "content is king". You should have 400+ word articles. But I don't write. My website does not contain written articles. It has creative wallpapers which can be used commercially or non-commercially. When Google rejected my blog for too little content, do they mean that only 200 wallpapers is not enough and I should include more? Is it saying that I should write articles on each wallpaper or post like 400+ words?


Should I track the login page?

I've recently started using Google Analytics on a B2B ecommerce site with authentication. Users must login and are redirected to the login page if they try to access an internal page without first logging in. The login page is clever enough to forward them to the original page once logged in. Tracking is installed on the login page (/login.aspx), but this means that EVERY session includes at least two page views, which I suspect will affect the bounce rate (?), and every session starts at /login.aspx, which is skewing analysis. I am considering removing the tracking from the login page, and wondered if anyone had any advice for why I should keep it there? TIA


Site part extraction domain practice

My client is forced to extract a substantial part of his websites content and place it in a separate context, that is not part of the original structure. The current structure               domain.com/brand/      The original domain has got a long-standing history, with a relatively good page-rank and many sites linking to it and it's contents. The options are these:   * place the site part in question to a subdomain of the origial one? brand.domain.com/ -OR-   * Create a new domain? branddomain.com/ The contract didn't specify this in detail, and we'll lose some of the value of the original site, and we're looking into this because we want to minimize our losses. So, which one should be considered as 'best practice'?


Are there any downsides of including google-analytics on your website?

I am in particular concerned with legal implications due to strong privacy legislations. However, I was also thinking about performance and false results by users blocking it.


How important are headings in SEO

I have a website that sells music artists posters. Each artists has a page containing a small bio, and a list of posters we are selling representing the artist. Currently our HTML looks like that
{Artist name}
     bio
Posters

...
       ...
      We are redesigning this page, and we have a new template that we really like. Problem is that in this new version the `<h2>Posters</h2>` does not appear anywhere on the page. As you might expect, a significant part of our traffic comes from people typing something like : "{Artist name} poster" on Google. I fear that, by removing the word "poster" from the page, we will reduce our chances of getting these people to come to the site, since Google might down rank us. I see several options here :   1. Give Google a slightly altered page that contains the `H2` tags. But I think this falls into the "Black Hat SEO" category. And I don't want that.   2. Put the heading. Hide it with CSS. Everyone wins, including accessibility tools which can determine the structure of the page using the "invisible" heading. But I do not know if this is considered a good practice.   3. Forget about the heading, and find other ways to tell Google that we really are about posters. (via keywords, but do they really have the same "weight" as an `H2`?)   4. Adapt the design to our SEO need, and find a way to put that heading nicely. Are there webmasters out there that have been facing the same issue, how did you resolve it?


Allow/Make search engine to index images hosted on third party

I have my personal blog website and using Dropbox to host images (through public folders) and use them in my blog website. Is their any way to index those images in search engine like Google. I have created an image sitemap which contains URLs of images both hosted on my blog directly as well as Dropbox and added that image sitemap to robots.txt. Not sure if this works particularly for Dropbox hosted images?? Google Webmasters portal shows me as a warning "Robots.txt prohibits the URLs" of dropbbox hosted images. Any way out??


Do all the pages on a website help the homepage's SEO?

When it comes to SEO, I hear the saying "content is king" a lot, so I tried to create a bunch of pages on my site with good authentic content. However, does creating a lot of content on a page or several pages help the homepage when it comes to SEO or is it every page for themselves? Will making an "About" page for my website with good SEO help my homepage with SEO, or do I need to focus directly on the content of my homepage itself? It seems, a lot of my pages that are not my homepage page are showing up in search results over my homepage. My homepage has some content, but a little less than other pages which are coming up before it in search results. I'm wondering if I'm taking the right approach.


apache domain redirect to subfolder

I have a hosting account with godaddy. Its a linux system running apache. The way they do their setup is your primary domain is the root folder. When you add a subdomain its in a subfolder of the root which sucks. I want to setup a subfolder structure to organize my domains.. I called godday support and they said to use redirects.. but did not know how to do that.. How its setup now: primary domain: > www.domain.com /   >  sub.domain.com /sub I want to create a directory structure and then redirect to each but only show www.domain.com in the url > www.domain.com /domain/www   >  sub.domain.com /domain/sub I tried using:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$     RewriteRule ^(/)?$ domain/www [L]      but it just changes the url to www.domain.com/domain/www Can this be done in htaccess?


DNS for domain shows old website for www version

I bought 2 domains form GoDaddy but with both I am seeing the same problems in that the domain on the `www` version goes to the old site which is still being hosted. I have checked the IntoDNS website and in the `www` record it shows:               Your www.example.com A record is:     www.example.com -> example.typepad.com -> cname-cloudflare.typepad.com ->      What can I do to stop this from happening? Will this eventually be automatically removed and fix itself? Though obviously it's not automatically fixed itself in the long drawn out expiry process... It's been quite a while for one of them and still hasn't propagated for the `www`. I'm not having any problems with the normal `example.com` part of the site.


"Progressive" JPEG: Why do many web sites avoid rendering JPEGs that way? Pros, cons?

When JPEG images are used by a web page, they are typically rendered top-down ... but they can also be rendered using a mode called **progressive JPEG** , where the image starts out **full-size** , but _blurry_ , and then gets sharper with successive passes, until it's fully loaded. **Progressive** loading requires the image have been saved that way. Why don't more web sites use progressive JPEG? What are the drawbacks? Is it simply a lack of tool support, or are these files somehow inferior to traditional top-down rendered JPEG images?


How can I tell Google Analytics to not use cookies for my sub domain?

I have my web site at `example.com`, and i have also setup a sub domain for serving static content at `static.example.com`.   On my web pages I'm using Google Analytics, so it will attach its cookies to all page request, even on `static.example.com`. I went into the GA settings and added a filter to exclude `static.example.com`, but I still see cookies (with the `__utma`.. name) on all web requests to my static domain. How can i prohibit GA to use cookies on my sub domain?


How do you 'do' SEO past on-page optimization?

This may seem like a fairly trivial question, but in it's most basic form - How do you _do_ SEO? To go into a little more depth, presume the website in question that we want to optimize is 100% complete as far as on-page optimization goes - great content, perfect SEO-friendly HTML markup. I don't consider myself 'new' to SEO at all, but past this point it seems like the most obvious activity is link building. I don't know if it's just me, but I'm finding this incredibly hard. If it were a humour site with lots of viral content, I would just post my content in humour threads on various forums and let links accrue naturally, but the site in question is a commercial site - online store - and I can't think of anywhere that might want to link to my content. I don't want to spam and my understanding is that submitting to random directories is of little to no value since my site has already been indexed by Google (past point of indexation, I doubt adding any further links would have much/any value at all). My target audience are 'installers', so short of looking for 'installer' forums relative to my company's products, I'm not sure where else would be relevant. An obvious step for where to start would be to analyse our competitor's back links, but most of those are spammy directories or from a 'SEO firm' which have just used their link farm. There is the odd giant site that has links from websites like the BBC to pages not relevant to the products on offer, but there isn't much we could offer in the way of alternative content that would invoke people to link to us either. Ideas? My question is applicable to any site, not just e-commerce. I guess my main problem is that my target audience aren't of a generation that live and breath the internet, meaning there aren't many relevant websites to gain links from. How do you sit down and 'do' SEO past on-page optimzation? Presumably link building. If you have an audience that aren't likely to be webmasters themselves, you don't stand a chance of being linked to, so where do you turn? (Obviously I undertake other marketing activities - we have a healthy base of 3-5k emails (given willingly at exhibitions/trade shows) that we can use to promote ourselves, as well as social networks and so on, but we are only really promoting ourselves to people that already know about us. We need to expand - with SEO being probably one of the most promising ways to do so (in theory)).


What are the challenges for a non-technical person running a web based business?

A friend of mine is starting a business. The business model is that his website is the medium through which businesses compete with each other and bid to provide a service to members of the public. He has no technical background but he knows the industry he's servicing well. He hired a web design company to create the site and the idea is that once everything is up, the site will kind of manage itself in that consumers will put up requests to be bid on, businesses will bid to provide the service and consumers will accept bids. Given that he has no technical background, it's unlikely that he will be able to resolve any technical issues. What kind of support should he seek from the web design company post-launch? He can't afford to have a full-time technical person on the payroll right now. what are the likely problems he can expect to run into? I'm thinking things like browser incompatibility as updates come out. Potentially performance issues as traffic ramps up if it takes off.


Cloud hosting vs dedicated hosting: advantages and disadvantages

I'm currently looking for a hosting company that can provide a very solid service with a 100% SLA. In the search both cloud hosting and managed dedicated hosting have come up. (I'd rather not manage the server myself as I'm still rather new to Linux.) I'm not sure if phrasing this as a "which is best" would make sense, but what advantages does cloud hosting have over dedicated server hosting? I need a reliable service above all else, and some elements of the application to be hosted will be relatively CPU intensive, although those spikes in CPU usage will be sporadic, so the hosting needs to be able to deal with that.


How to control what appears on google search results?

So I have just built a site and all is well... but I want to control what appears on google search results. Lets say I google for "thefwa", first what comes is the link to www.thefwa.com, then underneath is a list of pages on that site with preview and a link "More results from thefwa.com". How can I tell google to display my chosen content/pages? Do I use robots.txt or sitemap.xml? Because now the pages that are associated with my site are displayed kind of random. Is it possible to tell google what to display?


What file manager/uploader do you use with your embeded wysiwyg editor?

I am looking for a wysiwyg editor to allow user to edit part of their website. I already worked with TinyMCE, and heard about CKEditor, which both look great. However, they both lack a free (PHP) file manager/uploader, as they sell their own tool to make some money. I found a few free alternatives for TinyMCE, the best one (for my needs) being PHP Letter's one, but I was wondering about what the community uses ? Do you buy the "official" file manager ? Do you code your own ? Or do you have a great (free) alternative ?


Table-Sort Script with Search Feature

I lost a **JavaScript-based, sortable-table script** that had a unique feature of a **search box**. The search box that made non-relevant rows disappear when a user typed a word. Any idea where I can find a similar script to this? Again, it is all JavaScript based.


is there a standard template for a website proposal

i am putting together a website for someone and i wanted to see if there is a standard template to use that includes:   * pricing (by hour, page or project)   * expected bug fixes   * costs for hosting and support   * additional maintenance. i want to avoid missing some point.


How to do UX for people to use a widget

I have a site that helps people organize hikes. Here is a typical hike page: http://www.comehike.com/hikes/scheduled_hike.php?hike_id=174 I made a widget for people to be able to share their hikes. Here is the widget for the same hike: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?hike_id=174&height=500&width=700 But I am really stuck on how to get my users to understand that they can export their hike as a widget and share it. Plus, what phrasing should I use? "Share your hike" or "make the map into a sharable link" ? Are there any good examples of such UX and wording? Thanks


Legal terms required to email users - is opt in necessary

Creating a new site requiring membership to participate. I don't anticipate emailing members at this time except for password related issues. Perhaps down the road emails will be necessary. I want to be proactive and assume I will email the members in the future. What do I need to do to be covered legally when sending emails to all members? Can I get by with including "You may be emailed" in the TOS and having users accept TOS? Or do I need to include an opt-in option even though there may never be an email? I really don't want to harm the user experience especially if an email is NEVER sent as could be the case. In the U.S. but users could be worldwide, if that matters.


Is it good to start a website with keyword very popular or not so popular?

I am planning to launch a website. However, it is still undecided as there are many keywords on google to begin with. My question is whether it is good to be a part of well established keyword with millions of search result already OR would it be good to be part of keyword who have search result less than 100 or none. Thanks and regards, Jeet.


phishing attack. Where do I start the cleanup?

I'm a newbie webmaster. I've got a domain and a site... and no clue about the web (I'm OK with files and programs... ) I got a message from google that my site is a possible phishing site, with a link the the suspect page:                http://www.mydomain.com/~phishers/Paypal/us/Confirm.php      needless to say, I didn't put that up. Can someone point me to a good tutorial on what to do now? I'd like to figure out what happened so I can defend against it the next time around. How do I identify what kind of attach this is? Also, what is the tilde doing in the URL path? I couldn't find any path like this on my hosting account, so I'm not entirely sure how to delete it.


Can we Use Google's Ajax Proposal?

In October 2009 on Google's blog (see this link) there was a proposal presented to make ajax websites crawlable. Does anyone know if this got past the proposal stage and is it safe to use the methods outlined in that blog post? It's been 18 months since so I'm guessing something's happened since then, but I can't find any more info about it.


Google detects Malware on my website

Recently Google has been blocking my website after detecting Malware on it. I have checked through the files and can't spot any Malware that might have been inserted anywhere and no additional files have been added from what I can see. In the diagnostics> Malware section og googles webmaster tools for the site it says "Malware Google has not detected any malware on this site." Also on stopbadware.org the website is not on their clearing house. The site is melfordschoolofmotoring.co.uk. So why is google detecting malware?


Can the password recovery function of Drupal be configured to only ask for email address?

(I originally asked this question in webapps.stackexchange.com.) By default, in Drupal, when we provide a "set new password" form, the form asks for either a site username or an email address. If the user provides either a username or email address associated with a valid account, they get an email (at that address) with a link that allows them to set a new password. We'd like to ensure that all of our users are using a current email address, and to that end we'd like to turn _off_ the ability to put in a username. When the user puts in a username, it may send a message to an old email address but return a "We're sending you email" to the user. If they put in an email address which we don't have, it gives them an error message, which alerts them to the fact that they haven't kept us up to date (and makes them get in touch with us by email). Can we restrict that to only ask for email?


This is my _robots.txt_ :               User-agent: *     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-includes/          Sitemap: http://www.mydomain.org/sitemap.xml.gz      But Google Webmaster Tools tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap: > We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit: **URL restricted by _robots.txt_**. I read that Google Webmaster Tools caches _robots.txt_ , but the file has been updated more than 36 hours ago. **Update:** Hitting TEST sitemap does not cause Google to fetch a new sitemap. Only SUBMIT sitemap was able to do that. (BTW, I dont see whats the point in 'test sitemap' unless you paste your current sitemap in there - it doesnt fetch a fresh copy of the sitemap from the address it asks you to enter before the test - but thats a question for another day.) After submitting (instead of testing) a new sitemap the situation changed. I now get "URL blocked by _robots.txt_. Sitemap contains URLs which are blocked by _robots.txt_." for 44 URLs. There are exactly 44 URLs in the sitemap. This **means that Google is using the new sitemap but it is still going by the old robots rule (which kept everything off-limits)** None of the 44 URLs are in `/wp-admin/` or `/wp-includes/` (which is kind of impossible anyways, since _robots.txt_ is built on the fly by the same plugin that creates the sitemap). Update 2 It gets worse: on a Google Search results page, the description for the homepage reads: "A description for this result is not available because of this site's _robots.txt_ – learn more". All other pages have fine descriptions. There is no _robots.txt_ OR robots meta blocking indexing of the homepage. I'm stuck.


Does Google penalize changed H1 tags?

A friend of mine is worried that changing the font of the `<h1>` tag will cause Google to penalize it (or not assign as much weight to it). He described a situation where small `<h1>` text could be used to fake the important keywords on a page. I assured him that this was silly, but he insists on hard reference. Could anyone link me to something written by Google?


Is there a way to keep my local IP the same?

Every time I restart my Laptop it changes my LOCAL IP from 192.168.1.102 to 192.168.1.105 or some other random number. Is there a option for it to recognize my MAC and keep my local IP the same, I have to keep changing the opened ports for my port forwarding each restart. ( I don't need a static Public IP, I just need a static IP for my router to allow me to play games, or host websites ect.)


Tool to get all the Google page ranks of a website

I have a website, I was searching for a tool get the google page ranks of my website But I didn't get the appropriate one. Can anyone suggest tool to do this. (data export options to csv/excel will be appreciated).


Subdomain redirect to WWW

I have the domain `example.com` and the `test.example.com` running on apache server. For some reason when I try to visit _test.example_ it is redirected to _www.test.example_ and by consequence a `Server not found` error is displayed in the browser. Both .htaccess (root and subdomain folder) files are empty. **Additional facts** I have another subdomain `xyz.example.com` pointed to public_html/xyz directory with some content inside (index.html with "hello world message") and it works fine if I use xyz.example.com instead of www.xyz.example.com. So, can you help me to point to the right direction in order. I have a vps and I am able to change any file if is required. Below you can find my virtual host configuration.               <VirtualHost xx.xxx.xxx:80>         ServerName test.example.com         ServerAlias www.test.example.com         DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html/test         ServerAdmin webmaster@test.example.com         UseCanonicalName Off         CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/test.example.com combined         CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/test.example.com-bytes_log "%{%s}t %I  .\n%{%s}t %O ."              ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/example/public_html/test/cgi-bin/              # To customize this VirtualHost use an include file at the following location         # Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/example/test.example.com/*.conf"          </VirtualHost>


Do blog comments count as updates to your website?

I constantly hear that websites which are updated frequently do better in terms of SEO, so I was wondering: do blog comments count? I'm guessing they do, since they show that the website still has a 'lifeblood' to it - but I thought it'd be wise to check here first.


Web hosting providers and performance

Is there a way that we can measure performance for a host provider? If so, I would like to start this post as a wiki for everyone to chime in regarding their hosting provider. (I want to change but would like to make more of an informed decision.) **Rules:** **Phase 1**   * Post comments to the Question regarding ways to measure performance.   * Vote for comments to the Question.   * Based on comments I'll edit the Question so that we'll agree to use a particular technique or tool to measure performance. **Phase 2** Once we've decided on the technique or tool...If you want to contribute a measurement for a host provider...   1. If an answer/measurement for your host provider **_exists_** add your measure as a comment to that answer.   2. If an answer/measurement for you host provider **_does not exist_** , create a new answer, list that host provider along with your measurement. (Note: perhaps different packages for the same hosting company should be different answers...ex: Media Temple Grid Service and Media Temple Dedicated Virtual should be listed as separate Answers)


Is it Possible to Earn Revenue by Selling Click Data?

I have read an article about sites like google and facebook using a redirect script to keep track of who clicks what links on the web. And since they have a lot of traffic, they are monitoring a lot users that are clicking a lot of links. However, they aren't the source of 100% of the links in the world, and thus they can not monitor every link that every user clicks on. However, we (the smaller websites) are also capable of monitoring what our visitors click on, though we have to do it on a much smaller scale (we don't have as many visitors as facebook and/or google). The only problem is, we don't collect enough data for it to be very useful to anyone but us. However, if someone were to pay owners of the small sites for their click data, and combine it into one big dataset, it could be very useful. In fact, it would probably be useful enough that some people would want to pay to have access to that data. I was wondering if there are any websites that use the business model described above (get small websites to sell you their data, and sell the combined data to other corporations). If anyone knows of such a site, it could be an interesting revenue source for webmasters. And if there is not such a site, then it could be an interesting idea for anyone wanting to start a business... NOTE: I'm asking this more out of curiosity than because I actually want to sell my user's click data (though I might consider it in the future).


What is the default Web browser on Android?

What is the default Web browser on Android devices? Are there weird Web browser set by default that I should be aware of (to test my mobile Website on it)?


I dont want to hide my headings, but I dont want untitled articles

I'm currently building a site, that contains tabs (Bootstrap) for the articles. I dont want to show headings in the articles, because the tabs work as headings for the user. But the tab buttons are inside a nav element so they are not related to the content. If I outline my document all the articles are untitled. If I add headings and hide them, Google hates me. What would be the best practice? Does it make a difference, if my articles have headings?


Pros and Cons of Buying Common Website Mispellings

I own a website that is nicely short but somewhat easy to misspell. I would like to buy the three or four most common mispellings and redirect them all to my main page. Are there any major problems with this? I could see it being considered duplicate content and it could make visitors confused as to what the actual name is. Is there anyway to migitate these and other problems?


how to find that my written content is unique - in terms of google and user? I also want to know whether updating the content or user commenting on that article helps in seo?


Is Google still giving weightage for old domain, i.e at least 6 month old?

Is Google still giving weightage for old domain, i.e at least 6 months old? I mean I have the best content which is useful for users. Do I still have to wait for my domain name to be at least 6 months old?


How to use low competition keywords with large search volume effectively? For example : I have keyword phrase "why does the" which produce 368,000 global searches (searxch type : phrase in google keyword tool). This keyword has 1% competition. I want to know what can I do with this keyword. NOTE: The phrase is the starting phrase, ex: why does the sun shine?, why does the moon's color white? why does the sky blue?


How do large sites like StackOverflow handle their access logs?

I'm wondering how large sites like StackOverflow handle their access logs. A write to the disk on every request seems a little bit uneconomical, but is Google Analytics that reliable to use it as your only information resource?


Moving and redesigning a website

I am currently in the process of redesigning a successful business website. First I will be moving the site to a new web host. Once it is up and running I will begin porting the site into Joomla. Are their any considerations that I need to take into account to keep our rankings where they are? My goal is to also improve our rank as quickly as possible.


How to spot a good social media marketer

It's a bit subjective but helpful and on-topic IMO, mayebe should be made community wiki I've been in contact with some guest bloggers lately which are interested in publishing posts on my website's blog, so far I've done a regular weekly blog and had a guy marketing it, but he's too busy to do more work right now. Now I need someone to market these blog posts on social media, the last guy I just got by recommendation from a friend, but now I need to find one myself. What criteria should I check when it comes to social media marketers? Do the number of followers and fans on their accounts and/or the number of votes they get for articles they market mean anything, or is impossible to know if it's spam? That's about the only criterion I could think of so far... Thanx to anyone who helps


How can I export a keyword list from Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics, I've been following several tutorials to export a list of keywords, but something is going wrong. This is what I try: 1.) click traffic sources 2.) click keywords 3.) Click Export 4.) Click CSV The resulting file shows two columns. Column A is dates. Column B is visits. I am trying to export a file so that Column A is keywords and Column B is visits.


Apache Redirect based on directory name

I'm trying to use one install of Kohana to manage two separate sites rather than just duplicate the install. I have directories like this:               applications/        app1/        app2/      The .htaccess I have looks like this:               RewriteEngine on     RedirectMatch app1/(.*)$ http://app1.example.com/$1          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.*applications/app1.*     RewriteRule .* applications/app1/index.php/$0 [PT]      When I go to `app1.example.com` I get a 500 infinite redirect and the URL is `app1.example.com/index.php/index.php/index.php/...` What I need is for it to look like it's going to `app1.example.com` but behind the scenes it is redirecting to `document_root/applications/app1/index.php`. I also need this to work for app2 in the same way, but I imagine once I have it working for app1 it will essentially be identical. If you want to throw in any tips on managing multiple sites with one Kohana install that would help too.


Adding jPlayer to Magento site

I've got a simple, working demo page using jPlayer, which I built using the following guide: http://www.jplayer.org/latest/quick-start-guide/step-8-audio/ That was pretty straight forward. Now I'm looking for instructions on how to make the necessary `<head>` tag modifications such that I can have jPlayer show up on product pages in Magento.


Tracking URL Goals to an external site from a landing page

I have a landing page promoting an iOS app. The page is at vitogo.com. I've set up a goal for When a user clicks on the link to go to iTunes to download the app. I set up a URL destination goal in the property for the site, and can see the goal set up in the reports section. The problem is it isn't tracking any clicks. I've had the goal set up for a while now, and it hasn't tracked anything. Thanks for the help! EDIT: I now have two goals set up. Both URL Destinations.   1. An internal destination to /log-in    2. An external destination to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vitogo-fitness-personal-trainer/id492292132?ls=1&mt=8 I tried setting up an event for the second url with the following tracking code on the link `` I then set up the goal values for the even in Google Analytics as shown in the image below: ![Google Analytics Event Tracking](http://i.stack.imgur.com/w71Ep.png) The event doesn't record anything. I'm able to set up an internal path as a goal, but can't get an external link to record any information.


Add to vistor data in google analytics?

How can i add data to google analytics? i'd like to attach data to users such as if silverlight is installed, if i suspect the user of using an adblock etc (i would say if javascript is enabled but i am unsure how to add that data if javascript is indeed disabled) How might i do this?


Adding Keywords in URL - Stuffing or Good Technique

I have about 25 pages on my website and after seeing Matt Cutts talk about how keywords in a URL is a good SEO technique, I decided to rename my files a more SEO friendly name. However, I now have many urls (9) that include the keyword "ninja-warrior" (i.e. ninja-warrior-gyms.html, ninja-warrior-training.html). Is that considered stuffing? In addition, I would have to use 301 redirects as I'm changing pretty much every url on my entire website. Evaluating those two concerns, are the SEO rewards of keyword friendly URLs greater than the risks of losing link juice with 301 redirects and possibly getting penalized for keyword stuffing (if that is possible in this scenario)? **Note:** There are a couple similar questions, however I am asking more on a risk vs. reward basis including the downside of having to use many 301 redirects which hasn't been brought up in other questions. It seems this is being perceived as a duplicate.


In 2014 has any SEO value rewriting urls? If my site consistently links product page, and that product page shows a consistent canonical url, is there a real SEO doing this               http://example.com/products/woman-tracksuit-in-hemp      instead of this               http://example.com/product.php?id=6588      I know that a human being would be more comfortable with a rewrited url, but I would like to focus on SEO and bots, especially Google


Do any CDN services offer multiple urls (or aliases) for your files?

Lets say a company has multiple commercial web properties that happen to use a lot of the same images on each site. For SEO reasons, the sites must not appear to be related to eachother in any way. This means that the sites can't all link to the same image, even though they all use the same one. Therefore, an image is uploaded to each site and served from each site separately. In order to improve maintainability and latency, lets say the company wanted to use a CDN service. What I'm wondering is, if you upload a file, like an image or something, to a CDN, is there basically one single URL that you access that image at? Or do some (or all) CDN services offer alias URLs so that you can access the same resource from multiple URLs? **Example of undesirable situation:** Both sites link to the same file URL Site ABC links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some- path/myimage.jpg"/>` Site XYZ links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some- path/myimage.jpg"/>` **Example of DESIRABLE situation:** Both sites link to the same file via different URLs Site ABC links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some- path/myimage.jpg"/>` Site XYZ links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some-alias- path/myimage.jpg"/>` So in the end, there is only one single file, `myimage.jpg` on the CDN server, but it is accessible from multiple URLs. Is this possible with CDN services? I know this would make browsers cache the same image twice, but at least it would be better for maintainability. Only one file would ever have to be uploaded.


Domain Redirect

I have one domain name & hosting package but would like to add another site (with a different address) to that host. Do I have to purchase from the same provider? Can I purchase the domain elsewhere but get the file redirected to my current host? Is this domain masking?


How do I get a .name domain name

There was a service which provided email aliases on .name domain, but it seem to be gone now, so I was thinking of actually getting a domain for myself ( _martin.toth.name_ sounds nice). Do I understand it correctly, that I can't get a toth.name domain, but only third level: martin.toth.name? Do I get to have @toth.name emails even then? I've tried several registrars from Verisign's list, but none of them let's me ask for the third level, nor the toth.name (some say it's taken, some that it can't be registered). There's an article linked from Wikipedia entry on .name about cybercrime on .name. Should I look for another top level domain? Is it a disadvantage in search engines or anywehere else? _Note: couldn't post links to those pages, because I'm low on reputation_ So basically: **How does one register a .name domain name?**


404 error out of no where on .php file

I have a website which I've built that I have gone to a bunch of times today. Out of nowhere I receive a `404 Page Not Found` error, I didn't do anything. The site loads an `index.html` file which points to a `main.php` file which loads the content. Those 2 files are in the same directory and intact. I have no idea why this is happening - how can I troubleshoot the problem? I have already: cleared the cache, tried a new browser, triple-checked the file paths, and checked my hosts file.


Google has cached query string based dynamic page, but how/why?

I have a multipage form which works largely by posting the form details in query strings to the url. I know this isn't ideal and i've already changed it. However, what was happening is that google was caching results such as               mysite.com/myform?var=var&var2=var2&var3=var3      Where the var(s) were populated with form submitted form details. Any idea why/how this is happening? Thanks in anticpation.


Error after login to Magento on core/Mage/Admin/Model/User.php on line 437

None of out programmers has changed anything to the code, but out of nothing now, when a user tries to login on the backend, we have this error: > Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in > /home/r1tech/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Admin/Model/User.php on line 437 Any ideas why this is happening?


Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS

I am using IIS7, I have already set up the following. But when I run Firefox it seems not to cache any of my images even with "remember history" set.               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <staticContent>           <clientCache cacheControlCustom="public" cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge" cacheControlMaxAge="7.00:00:00" />         </staticContent>       </system.webServer>     </configuration>      However when I use Firebug it still points to Firefox not caching images and CSS:               public,max-age=604800     Content-Type    text/css     Content-Encoding    gzip     Last-Modified   Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:53:22 GMT     Accept-Ranges   bytes     Etag    "507968c27d34cc1:0"     Vary    Accept-Encoding     Server  Microsoft-IIS/7.5     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET     Date    Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:06:41 GMT     Content-Length  5067     Request Headersview source     Host    www.xx.com     User-Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1     Accept  text/css,*/*;q=0.1     Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate     Accept-Charset  ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7     Keep-Alive  115     Connection  keep-alive     Referer http://www.xx.com/     Cookie  __utma=62996397.135679654.1309106351.1309159743.1309164158.8; __utmz=62996397.1309106351.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utmc=62996397


Impact on SEO of adding categories/tags in front of the HTML title

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does the order of keywords matter in a page title? All StackExchange sites add the most-used tag of a question in front of the HTML title for SEO purposes. On Stackoverflow for example this is usually the programming language, so you end up with a title like > python - How do I do X? This has obviously an enourmous benefit on SEO as the programming language is an extremely important keyword that is very often omitted from the title. Now, my question is for the cases where the tag isn't an important keyword missing from the title, but just a category. So on Biology.SE for example one would have questions like > biochemistry - How does protein X interact with Y? or on Skeptics > medical science - Do vaccines cause autism? Those tags are usually not part of the search terms, they serve to categorize the content but users don't use those tags in their searches. **How harmful is adding tags that are not used in searches in terms of SEO?** Is there any hard data on the impact this practise might have on SEO? The negative aspects I can imagine, but have no data to show that it is actually a problem are:   * I heard that search engines dislike keyword stuffing and this might trigger some defense mechanisms against that   * It's a practise associated with less reputable sites, a keyword in front that doesn't fit the actual title well might look suspicious to some users.   * It wastes precious space in the title shown in search results.


IP - Country based ad delivery

I am looking for an ad manager script/system (open source or paid) which can deliver different ads based on the IP - country of the visitors. Would be nice if you can name one if you know!


How should I work out VAT (UK tax) in my eCommerce site?

We have an ecommerce system in place. The sales actually go through Sage, so we have an export script from our system that uses a third-party Sage Importer program. With a new version of this importer, values are checked more thoroughly. We are getting 1 pence discrepancies because of the way rounding works - our system has always held prices and worked to 4 decimal places. In the checkout the totals would be worked out first, then the rounding to 2 decimal places. The importer does rounding first, though. So, for instance: **Our way:**               Product 1: £13.4561     Qty: 2     Total inc VAT = £32.29 (to 2dp)      **Importer way:**               Our way:     Product 1: £13.4561     Qty: 2     Total inc VAT = £32.30 (to 2dp)      Management are reluctant to lose the 4dp but the developers of the Sage importer have said that this is correct and makes sense -- you woudn't sell a product for £13.4561 in a shop, nor would you charge someone tax at 4 decimal places. I contacted the HMRC and the operator didn't really give me much to go on, telling me a technician would phone back, to which they haven't and I'm still waiting after almost a week and numerous follow-up calls. I did find a PDF on the HMRC's web site, but this did about us much to confuse me as it did to answer my questions. I see that they're happy for people to round up or down, as long it is consistent, but I can't tell whether it should be done on a line by line basis or on the end total of the order. We are now in the position where we need to decide whether it's worth us doing one of the following, or something completely different. Please advise with any experience or information I can read.   * Change all products on the site to use 2dp   * Keep 4dp but round each line in the order to 2dp before working out tax   * Keep it as it is and "fudge" the values at the export script (i.e. make that values correct by adding or subtracting 1p and changing the shipping cost to make the totals still work out) Any thoughts?


Right “time” for publishing on multinational/global websites?

I have a website on which I publish a daily update. Its just german, so Germany/Austria/Switzerland which all share the same timezone. So the system always publishes the daily new content at midnight, which is fine. But now I plan to go tap into english/spanish/french/italien speaking areas. I thought about publishing everywhere at midnight, so californians essentially see the content 18 hours before australians do... Any ideas on that? How do other websites do it? Or maby is there a method to keep the shifting delay smaller? Because the zones utc -11 and +12 are essentially only 1 hour apart (when it comes to the time of day, not the actual date). Any ideas?


301 redirects mirrored domain

I'm redesigning a site for a friend on my localhost. His old site is an .asp based site and we're replacing it with a WordPress site on LAMP hosting. The old site sits on domain A and also has another domain, domain B parked on top of it mirroring it. Google has picked up domain B for most of his search engine results and yahoo and bing etc have picked up domain A. The plan is to 301 redirect the the old pages of his site on domain A to the new WordPress versions and park domain B on top of it like before. My question is, will this work, if not what would be a better way to approach it? We'd prefer not to lose any of the search engine listings in the redesign, and the search engines don't appear to have penalized him for duplicate content. Thanks very much in advance!


How to find the Fastest DNS servers to host our domain?

The question was born because lately we've seen a pretty odd (well, at least for us, for the first time) - error message in Google webmaster tools - " **DNS lookup timeout** " ... I was pretty sure that with eNom's 5 DNS servers (dns1... to dns5.name-services.com) we're pretty set... But it appears that from (Europe/Hungary), for example - dns1.name- services.com takes 170ms. to respond on a ping... while GoDaddy's ns75.domaincontrol.com - takes only 40 ms. to respond... and at the same time - dns2 to dns5.name-services.com - each result with a timeout error (on ping)... This issue came to our attention right in the final stages of optimizing our web-site (almost to death) - basically, just in time... **I would love to move our domains to a fast (fastest?) and reliable DNS server.. - but how do I find one ?** Also - I did the ping tests from various geographic locations (we have servers in many countries) and GoDaddy seemed to be faster than eNom almost in every case. I'd be very thankful for any hints on this! Edited: Well.. maybe this one does not have an answer, after all...