Help with URL and HTACCESS

I have a social engine 3 website, in my website all URLS can be changed(URL- REWRITING) through the SE-url settings automatically, but in my website their is one module which is custom coded, where I have to set its URL manually in htaccess file, the url which I want to changes is this:               mysite.com/institutes_desc.php?id=19      I want this URL to be changed like `mysite.com/institutes/intitute_name` or `mysite.com/institutes/intitute_id` My htaccess file is this               RewriteEngine On     Options +Followsymlinks     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^.* - [L,QSA]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^.*/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^.*/uploads_user/(.*)$ /uploads_user/$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /profile.php?user=$1$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documentgroups/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /documentgroup.php?user=$1&documentgroup_id=$2&group_id=$3&title=$4 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documentgroups/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /documentgroup.php?user=$1&documentgroup_id=$2$3 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /document.php?user=$1&document_id=$2&title=$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /document.php?user=$1&document_id=$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/?$ /documents.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/?$ /documents.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^documents/tag/([^/]+)/?$ /browse_documents.php?tag=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^documents/category/([0-9]+)/?$ /browse_documents.php?i=$1 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/blog/([0-9]+)/?$ /blog.php?user=$1&blogentry_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/blog/([^/]+)?$ /blog.php?user=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/blog/?$ /blog.php?user=$1 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/trackback/([0-9]+)/?$ /blog_ajax.php?task=trackback&user=$1&blogentry_id=$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/videos/([0-9]+)/?$ /video.php?user=$1&video_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group.php?group_id=$1$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/album/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group_album_file.php?group_id=$2&groupmedia_id=$3$4 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/discussion/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group_discussion_view.php?group_id=$2&grouptopic_id=$3$4 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/discussion/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group_discussion_view.php?group_id=$2&grouptopic_id=$3&grouppost_id=$4$5 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/articles/([^/]+)?$ /articles.php?user=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/articles/?$ /articles.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)(/[^/]*)?$ /article.php?article_id=$1&article_slug=$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/job/([0-9]+)/?$ /job.php?user=$1&jobentry_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/job/([^/]+)?$ /job.php?user=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/job/?$ /job.php?user=$1 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/trackback/([0-9]+)/?$ /job_ajax.php?task=trackback&user=$1&jobentry_id=$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/classifieds/([0-9]+)/?$ /classified.php?user=$1&classified_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/classifieds/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /classified.php?user=$1&classified_id=$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/classifieds/?$ /classifieds.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?event/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /event.php?event_id=$1$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?event/([0-9]+)/album/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /event_album_file.php?event_id=$2&eventmedia_id=$3$4 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^application/([0-9]+)/?$ /app.php?id=$1 [L]      Can anyone help me in this? how can I set my url this way?


Customizing a newly created website via Google Apps

I just purchased a domain through enom via Google Apps. I have no information for logging into the enom website. How do I actually start customizing the web site? Do I somehow do it through Google? Or do I do it through enom? If the latter, then how do I log in?


Apache mod_rewrite rule to convert URL of page, keeping parameters same

I sent out a link in an email that had a typo in the URL. I need to make a quick change for tracking purposes so that any incoming hits to the URL are instead parsed to another URL. From the link sent out:               /app/prog1.php?id=1234      To the version I want to track:               /app/prog2.php?id=1234      How do I set up a RewriteRule to handle such a transformation?


How do I make an AJAX block crawlable?

I have a block with a few tabs. When the user clicks the tab the content of that block get loaded. Now I would like to make it crawlable by the search engines and at the same time I want to maintain the good user-experience. I figured out a couple of alternative but each one has its own shortcomings. The approached that I could come up with.   * Use hashbangs and then use this. But hashbangs are not good and things of past now. Secondly it will make my content crawlable by only googlebot as yahoo and bing dont support this.   * Use GET PARAMETERIZED fallback incase when JavaScript doesn't work. This will work for all bots and also would be nice as it would work without JavaScript. But then this will create duplicates of my page as this block is only a very small section of my page and I have like around 5-6 tabs. So it means that many duplicates!  Doing this without AJAX is not an option as it would only increase the page load time as all these blocks have heavy media content in them!


How to clean PmWiki from JS:Includer-AWG and protect my site from future infections?

I'm hosting a site for an NGO for several years now. The site seems to be based on a PmWiki backend. I don't know much details because I'm just hosting the site and I'm not the guy who set it up. I would not ask but the one who created this site several years ago is not available for help currently. Now people called me up and told me their antivirus software is reporting the site as infected with some kind of javascript based trojans, called " **JS:Includer-AWG (Trj)** ". What is this and how to get rid of it? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/d0x2r.png) I tried to at least find out the installed version of PmWiki but couldnt find any details or a version string on the server. My main interest now is also to protect the site from future infections. Is this a PmWiki vulnarability? Is my webserver hacked? Where to start? I have already changed passwords and tried to delete malicious JS files but I want to avoid this to happen again. * * * **Update1** :   * Quttera.com says "No malware detected"...   * Yandex.com lists the torjan as " **Troj/JsRedir-NN** " (data provided by Sophos).   * Sucuri.net says "Website blacklisted" and "compromized". * * * **Update2** :   * This site is running pmwiki-2.2.17 (VersionNum=2002017).


Rewrite URL to a PHP script with parameters

I'm trying to create a service that you give it a URL like `http://myhost.com/34.png` and it will return the result of the script `http://myhost.com/create_image.php?count=34`. I know this is possible with mod_rewrite, but I'm very new to this and I'd like some pointers on how to do this. I only want it to work for numbers.


Adding meta tag keywords - the same or different on all pages?

I have 10 page php website. I want to add keywords to webpages. The website is related to hotel and having different-2 page like booking, rooms, places to visit etc. Question: Do we need to add same meta tag with all keyword for each webpage or should I create one meta tag page and include them in all pages?


Traffic from site like pu.gg, goo.gl?

Why is it that I get pageviews from sites like pu.gg, goo.gl? What does it mean? Am I visited by hackers? Is there any way to block this kind of page view from my analytics? I am kind'a alarm with this.


Is it ok to use a custom short domain for sharing third-party links?

I use a custom short domain which is a subdomain of my main domain, for sharing my website. I would like to know if this is legally ok to use a custom short domain for sharing third-party links, also SEO-wise, could it have any negative effect on my website? because I am using my own subdomain to share third-party contents? On my website and my social profiles, I regularly share direct links to other websites, without having a page or article about them on my website, which means I will not get much from those links, only my domain will get some attention. Websites usually use their custom short domains ONLY for sharing contents of their main domain.


Search engine for website

Does anybody have any recommendations for a search engine that I can use for my website. I currently use Google CSE, but am wondering if there is anything better. I want to be able to have the search results display certain data such as an image, header, information, etc... I would prefer something that I have some familiarity with such as javascript but I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks


How does Lastpass recognize actual login?

We are currently working on simple school project using Codeigniter where we need login page. It would be very useful if Lastpass could recognise and save logins. We have several accounts with different roles and manual insert of login is pretty slow. So I was wondering what needs to be done and where in files (view, controller?) for Lastpass to work as it does on every website. For example this is our login form:                   <?php echo form_open('login'); ?>           <input type="text" id="username" name="username"/>           <input type="text" id="password" name="password"/>           <input type="submit" value="Login"/>          </form>      Thanks for help. (could not create new tag "Lastpass" due to low reputation)


How do I make sure the web developer I hire will not steal my idea?

So I have a great idea for a new website. However, not the time to develop it. I would like to hire a person or company to design it for me. What steps do I need to take, to protect my idea? Where and how do people protect website ideas in general? Also, how easy is it for someone to tweak the idea and make it legally heir own? Is a patent enough to protect such a thing, idea. Are there different levels or types of protection? Thank You.


Embeding a generic google search with autocomplete - not a custom site search

Most people's home page is google.com. My homepage is just a custom html page hosted on my computer. I do this because I am a web developer, and I have several projects that I work on a one time, so I like to have quick links to all of them. On that page I usually just have a Link to google.com for when I want to search. But below all of my quick links, I want to add a google search box (with Autocompletions). I first used a simple iframe to embed google.com into the page, but then my search results were confined to that iframe. I wanted to search for something, then my results would open in a new tab. I then came across this code snippet but it doesn't have Autocompletions: http://www.refactory.org/s/google_search/view/2 How can I add Autocompletions to this? Or is there a better way of doing it? Thanks in advance for any advice


DNS and MX questions related to new hosts

This stuff always confuses me so I'll layout the pieces and what I hope to achieve, if someone can connect the dots.   * I have a domain `www.toys.com`   * I have a cloud VPS   * I have an Open Exchange mail server In a perfect world...get `toys.com` to point to and use cloud VPS's DNS settings. This is great my domain now has a web host, hooray. I don't want to use cloud VPS mail services. I want to use Open Exchange services. So I go into cloud VPS's DNS tools and add records for open exchange service and mail should work, hooray. My problem as follows `toys.com` currently has existing hosting and a separate mail server.   * When I switch the DNS of `toys.com` to point to new web host, I know existing hosting will stop.   * When I switch the DNS of `toys.com` to point to new web host, I think mail will also stop because the records are no longer there since there's a new host.   * I now have to add the Open Exchange mail server records in cloud VPS's DNS tools. How long will this take?  The reason I ask is because the mail server is hosting about 400 email addresses, but a new web host is wanted/needed.


Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots

I have a site that, for regulatory reasons, may not be indexed or searched automatically. This means that we need to keep all robots away and prevent them from spidering the site. Obviously we've had a robots.txt file that disallows all right from the start. However, observing the robots.txt file is something only well behaved robots do. Recently we've had some issues with less well behaved robots. I've configured Apache to ban a few user-agents but it is pretty easy to get around that. So, the question is, is there some way to configure Apache (perhaps by installing a some module?) to detect robot-like behavior and respond? Any other ideas? At the moment all I can do is ban IP addresses based on manual inspection of the logs and that is simply not a viable long term strategy.


Filtering European traffic in Google Analytics

I'd like to filter incoming information, with one profile containing U.S. traffic and another E.U. traffic. U.S. was easy enough...               Custom Filter     Include     Filter Field: Country     Filter Pattern: United States$     Case Sensitive: No      This worked great. European traffic however has been problematic.               Custom Filter     Include     Filter Field: Region     Filter Pattern: Europe     Case Sensitive: No      The above doesn't work. I also tried "Southern Europe|Northern Europe|etc" as the filter pattern. No dice. Things are made more difficult by the fact that I can only test that worked by checking whether traffic was acquired the next day.


Switch to https

I'm looking to use an .htaccess file to use mod_rewrite to switch the protocol from http:// to https:// when someone hits my website. For instance, once someone goes to: `http://www.mywebsite.com/` I'd like the browser to switch to: `https://www.mywebsite.com/` The same goes for the `http://mywebsite.com/` -> `https://mywebsite.com` This is the following code I've been using and I've experienced some odd things so if anyone could provide me with information if this is the right way to do it, or if you have a better way, please provide it. Thanks in advance.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.ebaillv.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Is this a DNS or server-side error?

I am having difficulty accessing a specific website. (I get 500 Server fault errors) I can access this site on my iPhone when NOT connected to WiFi. I CANNOT access the site when connected to WiFi or via a Ethernet connection to my home network. I thought it might be a DNS issue, so I copied the DNSservers from a friend who has a different ISP, and has no problem access the site. No luck. Also tried some of the public DNS servers out there, again, with no luck. Does anyone have any idea on how to trace this issue?


Should I link thousands on landing pages to my website or not?

I'm working on a website, recently we decided to create thousands of landing pages to target different cities, using different keywords and feed them to google ... Our website's google rank is quite good ! question is, should we have these landing pages in our website's structure or have them separate not directly linked to the website ? if we do that is it going to damage our reputation?


Are there any tried and tested methods for rejuvenating an old message board?

I have a moderately successful message board with an excellent (but tiny) community associated with it. One of my goals for the month is to try and increase the amount of users on the site and also the amount of posts per day. Apart from the general methods that any site could use to drive traffic is there anything I should specifically be doing for a message board? Here are some of the things I have already tried (and am already trying, obviously some of these things are on-going projects)   * Harnessing Facebook Communities and the 'like' button.   * Writing a friendly message to non-logged in users asking them to sign up or log in.   * Writing posts in such as way as they spark debate or conversation.   * Listen and engage with the community.   * We have a basic reputation system.   * We have an introduction thread and it has a friendly welcoming atmosphere.   * We interview people on the site. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Looking for horizontal image slider for my site

Any javascript tool which will take url of my images and links. It should work like a horizontalimage slider. If some one clicks on the image, it should redirect to the respective link. Has anybody seen any java script widget for the Horizontal image slider.


Automated Website Testing/Sanity/Quality

I am thinking about building a tool that starts from the root of a webpage and traverses the entire website gathering a list of resources such as CSS/HTML/Javascript files and then runs CSS/Javascript Lint + HTML Validator + Broken Link Finder. Before I start building something like this, I was wondering if this exists already? Thanks. I already searched Google quite a bit and couldn't find much.


How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? Please share your views, knowledge and experience... Thanks :)


Google Webmaster crawler showing internal links I cannot find

I've got the crawler showing links that appear to be double URL encoded links. Specifically links that are `%2520` instead of `%20` or ``. As far as I know I've fixed this a while ago by removing special characters and spaces, but let the URL handler still be able to handle these links. I go to the `Linked From` page it lists as source of the issue, and I cannot find anywhere the link it describes. Does anyone know what's going on? It seems that the links are ok on my end, and Google is converting the `%` to `%25` and can't go to the page after, because my setup with IIS cannot handle a `%2520`


What is the most time-effective way to monitor & manage threats from bots and/or humans?

I'm usually overwhelmed by the amount of tools that hosting companies provide to track & quantify traffic data and statistics. I'm equally overwhelmed by the countless flavors of malicious 'attacks' that target any and every web site known to man. The security methods used to protect both the back and front end of a website are documented well and are straight-forward in terms of ease of implementation and application, but the army of autonomous bots knows no boundaries and will always find a niche of a website to infest. So what can be done to handle the inevitable swarm of bots that pound your domain with brute force? Whenever I look at error logs for my domains, there are always thousands of entries that look like bots trying to sneak sql code into the database by tricking the variables in the url into giving them schema information or private data within the database. My barbaric and time-consuming plan of defense is just to monitor visitor statistics for those obvious patterns of abuse and either ban the ips or range of ips accordingly. Aside from that, I don't know much else I could do to prevent all of the ping pong going on all day. Are there any good tools that automatically monitor this background activity (specifically activity that throws errors on the web & db server) and proactively deal with these source(s) of mayhem?


Asp.Net files appears as code rather than serving web pages

I have created my website in ASP.Net and I have uploaded my site through FileZilla FTP server Software. But when i use My domain name in browser, it just displays Code instead of Design view. I'm new to this I don't know the exact error so please guide me. **P.S**   * Vb.net is the code behind file   * `.aspx.vb` is the file extension of code behind file and   * for design page `.aspx` is the file extension


Does Google submit HTML forms?

I have a web page, say `http://domain/purchase` and in this page, I have a web form. User, on submitting this form (which has validation, both client-side and server side and won't be validated until fields are filled appropriately), would be redirected to another page, where (s)he can choose other things, and specify other settings and then purchase our product. Say the second page is `http://domain/options`. So, user comes to our site and visits `http://domain/purchase`, fills the form, submits it, and then would be redirected to the second page, `http://doamin/options?parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2`, which contains parameters from the first page. This is very common in passing parameters between web pages (or technically, between URLs). Now I was reviewing my website, and saw that Google had indexed some of my redirected web pages and URLs, like:   1. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2`   2. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value3&parameter2=value4`   3. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value5&parameter2=value6`   4. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value7&parameter2=value8`   5. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value9&parameter2=value10` This means that Google Bot has visited our `http://domain/purchase` page, and has filled our form, and has submitted it, and was being redirected to the other URL, with corresponding parameters. This is the only way that makes sense to me. Does Google really fills forms? **PS:** All parameters are meaningful, meaning that they are not filled arbitrarily. For example, the **phone** parameter in indexed pages has correct phone numbers. How is it possible?


reliable way to get whois information in standard format

I am trying to write a script to fetch whois information for a bunch of sites. I am facing two problems: 1) whois command arbitrarily returns fgets/connection reset errors. Trying multiple times for a site often works but is very ugly. 2) The data returned doesnt seem to be in standard format. For example, for my current list, all domains are registered by one of 4 registrars. However, the registrar entry has various formats:               Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM     Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.     Registrar: NETFIRMS, INC.     Sponsoring Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Created by Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Last Updated by Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM     Sponsoring Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Created by Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Last Updated by Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.     Sponsoring Registrar:#1 Indian Domains dba Mitsu.in (R74-AFIN)     Sponsoring Registrar:Business Solutions (R54-AFIN)     Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (R27-LROR)     Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com Inc. (R171-LRMS)     Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (146) Created by Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (146) Last Updated by Registrar:Afilias Ltd. (4000017)     Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)     Sponsoring Registrar:IN Registrar d.b.a. inregistrar.com (R123-AFIN)     Sponsoring Registrar:Netfirms, Inc. (R1427-LROR)     Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS)      Is there any way to reliably get the fields like expiration date and registrar for a domain (I am willing to write custom php scripts). regards, JP


Facebook Chat or Chat in site

I will put my site Facebook Chat or Normal chat for users.However, I want to believe that this will be benefical. Is there a graph for that shows it increase pageviews for sites? I really need it


Server gzip compression vs gzipped sitemap

My client's SEO guy said that search engines prefer gzipped sitemaps. They keep their sitemap in `.xml.gz` file. I was wondering if there is any difference for search engines between a gzipped "on-the-fly" sitemap (i.e. by Apache or Nginx) and a "manually" gzipped file.


How to promote external sites besides my own in search results?

I have a site which, after fixing a lot of SEO issues, is now doing fairly well in Google search result rankings; the problem is I would like some related pages on other people's websites to show along with my own pages. For example, if I were to search for my name and the first page is full of links to pages on my website, how can I get Google to rank other relevant links like my StackOverflow profile higher?


Google Webmaster Tools crawl error with 'function.session-start' URLs

I've got following error URLs from the Google Webmaster Tools _crawl errors_.               http://www.mydomain.com/mydomain/shirts/function.session-start      I've checked the those pages that links from but I didn't found any wrong URL with `function.session-start`. What is the issue there and how to avoid it?


Having an URL point to different locations for periods of time

I want to ensure that I get the proper SEO benefits in the following example: I was thinking of pointing `example.com/sixnations` (the Six Nations is a rugby tournament from feb-march) to refer to either `/sixnations2013` or `/sixnations2014` depending on the time of the year. If someone visits `/sixnations` between Jan-Jul, it's likely they're more interested in the current year, whereas if it's between Jul-Dec, they'll probably prefer next years. I can 301/canonical, but I don't know if rankings will take a hit when it switches over, or something. My current plan is that `/sixnations` will mirror the content of the "proper" place (eg `/sixnations` in the url still) but I can "hard" redirect and change the URL if necessary too. 301/canonical, or 302 with same URL, or redirect entirely?


Possible to add code tag button in MediaWiki editor?

In the MediaWiki editor are there buttons for bold, italic and other styling, but not one for adding the `<code> ... </code>` tags around the selected text. Can such a button be added to the editor?


360 degree panoramic view implementation

I would like to implement a panoramic view player on my website. I did some research and found the following options: buy Flash player, use Quicktime, or HTML5 I was wondering if someone has experience and can guide me towards a right solution. Are there free Flash plugins for this? This looks promising: http://flashpanoramas.com/player/ But 40 Euros is too much! I think...


How long does Bingbot typically take to process a sitemap submission?

I submitted a domain's _sitemap.xml_ to Bingbot (in Webmaster Tools). It's been a couple of days but the status is still pending. Does anyone know how much time does Bing Webmaster Tools takes to complete the process and show the success or error message?


How to un+1 a 301d URL without removing the 301?

I found out I Google +1d this URL `http://domainA.com/this-url/` this URL has been 301 redirected to `http://domainB.com/this-url/` in the meanwhile, now I want to undo the +1 on the 301 without going through disabling the 301. Is there a quick way to do that?


Setting Meta tags for a website

I have made an Asp.net MVC website and am not well versed about SEO techniques, so I want a little guidance in setting the appropriate meta tags for the website. My website is dynamic and has two types of Pages: **Category** and **Product** There are two tables in the database for Category and Product. Looking into the future, I added these fields beforehand to both the tables : > -- MetaTitle--MetaDescription--MetaKeywords On both the Category and Product pages, these values are retrieved and set as following               <meta name="description" content="@ViewBag.MetaDescription" />     <meta name="title" content="@ViewBag.MetaTitle" />     <meta name="keywords" content="@ViewBag.MetaKeywords" />      For better SEO how will you set up these meta tags. Will you include the site name in all three fields ? Right now, the Product page's MetaTitle, MetaDescription and MetaKeywords don't include the website name. If possible, can you provide me sample values that should be set for better SEO performance keeping the business name in mind.


Are my emails being sent to spam?

I'm working of a quite a large support organisation and we have a strong reason to believe that our outgoing emails are being delivered to spam folders. Are there any services I can use to check if this is actually the case?


Subdomain Masking, redirection already provided

I'm using a server which allows me to create and redirect subdomains. However, it is reflected on the address URL bar. What I want is to keep `subdomain.domain.com` as base URL for the subdirectories inside `domain.com/subdirectory/` Searching on the internet I always come up with these lines for .htaccess, which I think it does the redirection, but not the masking.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.domain\.com$ [NC]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sub     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub/$1 [L]      **edit** Tried this, but didn't work               RewriteEngine  on     RewriteBase    /subdirectory/     RewriteRule    ^(.*)$  http://subdomain.domain.com/$1  [P]     ProxyPassReverse /subdirectory/ http://subdomain.domain.com/


Parked previous company's domain on top of existing one. SERPS showing old URL with existing info for some of the top keywods

Sorry for the duplicate question but I'm a newbie and see that I posted wrong the first time. Parked a domain from my previous company website on top of my existing company website. The URL from the other site is now showing for some of my top keywords in the SERPS but with my meta info and linking to my page. How do I fix this?


Google analytics tracking code for different profiles?

I have set up two different profiles in my Google analytics account for my website. The reason for having two different profiles is that my site is completely divided in two different user groups (not sharing anything (buyers and sellers)). When reading the documentation on profiles and accounts from google it says that each profile as subid UA-XXXX-1, UA-XXXX-2 etc... My tracking code just uses -1 and therefore both profiles show the same information. I can't figure out how my tracking code should differ between the two. In my mind it should be:               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXX-1']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mysite.com']);     _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', false]);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);     ... analytics javascript.     </script>      And on the second part of the site it should be:               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXX-2']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mysite.com']);     _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', false]);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);     ... analytics javascript.     </script>      I can't see any examples and my profiles show the same tracking code in analytics. I'm lost in how to make the two different profiles gathering the information separatly. My question is simple: How do I alter my tracking code so that traffic gets logged either in my default profile or second profile? Is there something that I'm missing? Super thanks for any answer to this. Best regards, Niclas


URL redirection to same domain on different server

We have existing domain on non-IIS server and now we have moved it to IIS server. Client want us to redirect the URL from existing server to new server with same domain name. We will modify the .htaccess file to redirect but if we redirect current abc.org to our PROD environment, then the url should still be abc.org. I am not sure whether we can have same domain (abc.org) for two PROD environment? How to achieve this?


What are examples of services that track content-driven activity on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?

I'm trying to design the basics for a platform that enables users to access sets of statistics and information related to the way how their publications are handled and shared across social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Many services are based on the contents published from the social networks themselves (e.g. ThinkUp and Hootsuite), other are inspired on the traffic metrics (e.g. Google Analytics, Mint and Newsbeat). I'm looking for fairly known examples of web analytics services that track social network activity, at least on Facebook and Twitter. Not just the good old analytics (I'm talking about the last examples I gave above), but the ones that focus on the contents and how they're handled by the community. These are some of the features I'm looking for:   * List of most commented, shared or liked publications;   * List of most active _sharers_ ;   * Variation of average "sharing activity" across last day, week, month; Which services can do this? Are they web based applications or self-hosted apps? Do they have their own APIs? Can they track contents-driven activity instead of the plain old


Google search results shows HTTP Error 400 instead of my site title

my problem can be seen here http://www.google.com/search?q=site:michaele-harrington.com I am getting **_HTTP ERROR 400_** instead of title of my page.   Seems this is also happening with a few of my blog pages. When I use google webmaster rich snippets tool I'm also getting an error for the blog title. Seems there could be something up with my robots.txt... I found these errors by accident while using google webmasters rich snippets tool trying to verify google authorship markup. I'm getting errors for that as well, even though I have entered rel="author" and rel="me" in the correct places!   http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920


Silent redirection not working with mod_rewrite

I'm trying to grasp apache mod_rewrite When I add this to my .htaccess it silently (url doesnt change) shows page bob.htm               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule index.htm bob.htm      I.e. If I type this in the browser address: `http://mydomain/test/index.htm`, I get the content for page: `http://mydomain/test/bob.htm` However if I change the .htaccess to use the full path ...               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule index.htm http://mydomain/test/bob.htm      It redirects, but not silently. Can someone explain what's going on please.


Search results for my website show content that isn't mine including pharmacy (Viagra and Cialis)

I have a website and when I try a search like this: `site:dichthuatviettin.com` it gives me bunch of result like this : ![Example screenshot of result](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MJgEM.jpg)   Those pages do not exists on my website, how did they get there? I don't know what happening with my website anymore ! Any help or explaination why this happen ?


Google indexed page a day before also reflecting in search but today everything vanish

We had _robots.txt_ which disallow all robots as we were in development. We are live now. We change _robots.txt_ as per our requirement a day before. Submit indexes using Google Webmaster Tools index status. After this we can see proper result in search as well as Google images search was working as expected. Suddenly today all these things vanish from Google Search. Now again I can see old result i.e. under construction message. I checked _robots.txt_ in Google Webmaster Tools, it's ok - no crawling errors. Kindly let me know what exactly happened? How I can inform this issue to Google?


Plesk Migration failure

When using plesk migration manager all content domains and databases seem to be copied to their places but when I log in to plesk I cannot see them. when I try to add them manually it says "domain already exists". I assume that the domains were assigned to a user which is not visible and now i cannot access them through the control panel. Is there a file or something where i can edit this?


Are there specific advantages or disadvantages of an XML sitemap over a TXT based sitemap?

Are there any specific advantages or disadvantages in generating an XML based sitemap in place of a simple txt based sitemap (list of URLs)? I realize that in the XML format I can set priority and last-modified date, but it is not clear what benefit, if any, in terms of SEO, etc, this provides. (For instance, what benefit would there be to setting a low priority, other than possible reducing robot crawl load?) Explicitly stating this information also increases the probability of a mistake -- some modification date not getting updated correctly, etc.


Problem updating wordpress

A problems occurs when I am trying to update my WordPress 3.0 to WordPress 3.0.1 using "Update Automatically" button of update-core page. I am getting a message like below: > Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.1.zip… And everything is stopped after this message. What to do now?


What do I need to know about selling a website?

I have run a hobby website for about seven years and it has gained a lot of traffic. I was recently approached with a purchase inquiry a company which appears to be reputable with a price I am happy with. What things to I need to be aware of in order to not get screwed or scammed?


How to see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?

Using Google Analytics, how can we see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?


Stop Google crawling links completely

I would like to stop Google crawling certain links on a site. When I say this, I mean completely stop the crawling. I'm aware that I use `noindex/nofollow` and other methods in _robots.txt_ , but, I'm told that whilst these will be respected in terms of the content of the page, the URL itself is still crawled. The reason I'm so bothered about is due to the crawl budget that is allocated to the site. The site uses layered/faceted navigation, and the combination of filters creates hundreds of thousands of unique links. I want to make sure Google ignores these links completely, and concentrates on the important pages that I want to be crawled and indexed. I've been made aware of a couple of options -   1. Ajax Checkboxes - replace the HTML links with ajax checkboxes. The problem here is that these aren't any good for accessibility and browsers with JavaScript disabled. I'm also aware, that Google can see this as cloaking, and can penalise appropriately.   2. Hashbang #! Urls - From what I can find, if you add a hash bang to a URL, Google will not crawl it. For example `www.myshop.com/shoes#!colour-red`. I can't find any sites using it in this form though, so I'm not convinced.


Need some help with modal for login/register

I am new to web development and in the process of creating my first website. I am trying to make a login link in the header which opens a modal for login/register but the link isn't working. I think that I have to type in some code into the index.php page to get it to work but I don't know what to put in. Hope some of you can help, thanks. Here is my code: index.php               <?php     include "app/config.php";     include "app/detect.php";          if ($page_name=='') {     include $browser_t.'/index.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='index.html') {     include $browser_t.'/index.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='about.html') {     include $browser_t.'/about.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='store.html') {     include $browser_t.'/store.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='contact.html') {     include $browser_t.'/contact.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='single.html') {     include $browser_t.'/single.html';     }     else     {         include $browser_t.'/404.html';     }     ?>      header.html               <link href="web/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  media="all">               <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-        awesome.min.css" />     <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="web/css/style.css" />

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How to register an owned, unused domain?

I would like to buy www.caves.com but it seems that it's owned and there is a "search engine" there. How do I contact the site owners and buy this domain?


Domain ownership issue with Google AdSense even I have added ownership page

I am facing domain ownership issue on my www.videoonfacebook.com site I have made ownership page and resubmitted! but same reply?


Multi language site - use of canonical link and link rel="alternate"

I keep reading everywhere that if you have a multilanguage site, where the same page appears in, say, French and English, then this is considered as duplicate content by google. It is written that using canonical link is the solution, but I do not understand how to use it in this case. Should I:   1. Choose either French URL or English URL to be the canonical (main) one, and where I will place the canonical link? If so, how do I decide which of the two URLs must be canonical? both languages are important to me and I want the content under both languages to be indexed by google and served to the user, depending on the language in which he searches.   2. OR should I place a canonical link on both French and English URLs? If so, then I do not understand the meaning of using the canonical link? In this case would both URLs be indexed, are both of them considered as "important" by google and not duplicates? Also I read that link rel="alternate" can be used to indicate to google that, for example the French URL is the French-language equivalent of the English page. This makes sense and I understand how to use such links, but how are they combined with canonical links? Should I define both the canonical URL AND specify rel="alternate" in both URLs? Could someone help me to clarify this, cause I'm stuck with this and can't seem to find a good-enough explanation in different sources.


Another website has lower pagerank (4) and lower backlinks, but they score higher than me in search results

My website has a pagerank of 6 but it ranks poorly (6th position), they have the 3rd position despite a lower pagerank. The sites are about the same subject. I have title text on links, content is not flash, etc. Why?


Global Analytics Filter for all accounts

I am trying to create a filter for all of my Analytics websites. I am wondering if it is currently possible to do this. Basically one filter to rule them all! thanks!


Why is page rank so high for a teacher's personal site

I have several sites with google page rank 0.   * These sites have unique content (in my native language).    * They have sites on google+ and facebook with at least 50 likes.    * They are registered in many search engines.    * There are quite many links (not fewer than hundred) pointing to them - site openlinkprofiler.org gave to the majority of these links low values (about 5%), but this is better than nothing.    * There aren't links from "bas seo" pages to my sites   * I am commenting in relevant sites using links to my pages.    * All these pages receive high or satisfactory rankings in automatic SEO analysis tools.   * There aren't many unique users who vist these pages per day, but also this number is not a zero But still pagerank zero for months. And another example, a teacher of calculus from our faculty (which has about 1500 students and he teaches about 150 unique students in a year) has a personal site with page rank 3 (called krbalek.cz)   * His site is not valid according to w3c   * He has not connections with social networks   * System openlinkprofiler.org tells that there are only a few links pointing to the page   * He probably does not do any seo and Seo analysers do not give the best results for him Is there any general advice for me, what am I doing wrong? The only thing that came to my mind is that his personal site has been in service for about 10 year and all my sites aren't older than a year.


Is this a legitimate tool to check for digital certificates?

I've been looking for a method to handle checking my domain for certificates that are in use, but my provider doesn't provide a tool to see how many are currently in use. I've stumbled upon the following but I'm unfamiliar with it and unsure of its legitimacy. http://prefetch.net/articles/checkcertificate.html If bad, can you make any other suggestions on what I should do/use? I'm proficient in Powershell scripting.


GitHub forum/helpdesk solution

Our open source software website is migrating from Redmine to GitHub (pages, wiki, issues) and the only missing thing is _Forum/Discussions_. GitHub does not have such feature yet and allows only static pages generation. We really would like to support our users using forum. I was thinking about disqus.com like engine that can be attached to website, but what I have found offers only comments support for specific page/topic on website, they don't have ability for user to create a thread/topic like on forums. Question: Is there any 3rd party solution which will support forum/helpdesk like mechanism without requiring and server side installation and can be embedded in pure html? Also would be great if such engine support social networking authorization (like disqus). P.S.: What alternatives would you recommend for user support?


How can I remove plus sign in jquery string

How can I remove `+` sign from string in Jquery `$('#sender_name'). val().` If I entered any space then it include a `+` sign So in my controller I cant get accurate value due to `+` sign (I am using Ajax call that goes every time when I enter a single word). For example if I entered in text field 'Hello World' then it will return 'hello+world' i want to remove + sign.               $(function()      {     $( "#sender_name" ).autocomplete({             'search':function(event,ui){`                 var newUrl="<?=base_url()?>login/city/"+$("#sender_name").val();                 $(this).autocomplete("option","source",newUrl)                 },                 source':[]         });     });


SEO implications of moving a section of site to a subdomain - Drupal to Jekyll/Wordpress migration

We are strongly considering moving significant, relatively static, portions of our existing Drupal site (`yinyanghouse.com`) out of Drupal and into a subdomain built up with a static site generator like Jekyll. This section would be something like 900 pages or so of largely static content with no need for comments, etc. (although keeping Adsense would be important) - something like `resources.yinyanghouse.com`. Then we are more than likely going to move the dynamic/community portions of our site into Wordpress for easier upgrade paths and better adherence to API's between versions (in our opinion) than Drupal. My question, then, is will there be any significant ramifications of moving a page such as: `http://www.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/lv3` to `resources.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/lv3`? Any things to watch out for or are just 301's and fixing all our internal links enough? Any experiences with Jekyll and larger sites? What about hosting that many pages on Github pages vs. locally with Nginx? These are crucial pages of our rankings overall and we really don't want to lose that but moving them to a static site generator will help us greatly with maintenance and hosting costs.


suggested ways of handling font-face and minification

I have a css file with a font-face section in it. Are there any known issues around using minification tools from google/yahoo when applying them on a css file with a font-face section. If so, what are some of the workarounds that could be explored. Not minifying is an option though I would prefer to minify the non font-face section, even if it means creating two separate files, one with non font-face css and one with font-face. However, I am wondering if anyone has a suggested way of dealing with this without resorting to two separate HTTP requests for the CSS files. Thanks in advance for your input/suggestions.


Website dropping 7 pages low in 1 week

I just encountered, that my webpage dropped 7 pages low on google in just 1 week. How is that even remotely possible? I didn't change anything regarding metatags, descriptions, site structure, whatsoever. And still it's displayed on page 7 when searching for the most used keyword (which I sorted out with google analytics) Does anyone have an idea how that can even happen in such short time? Interesting note; The viewer count didn't change too much during the whole time. Also the pagerank didn't change - still 5


Best position for Facebook Like button

What's the best position for a Facebook Like button, at the top of the page, or at the end of the text/content/module? Which position has more visibility and is more effective?


Subdomain configuration

1. Configure all subdomains to point to the same server IP as the main domain   2. Configure all subdomains in virtual host to point to the same location as the main domain What is the easiest way to do this?


Increasing the pagerank to my blogs index page, removing the links to posts

I want to increase page rank on my main index blog page and categories. If i remove the links to my posts from my index page and have only links to categories, will that help? Anyone tried it? Ty


Does Google Analytics allow custom variables to have a value of zero?

I was interested in tracking the versions of QuickTime my users have installed. As suggested in an earlier question, I have set up a custom variable and built a report around it. Here is my code for the check:               function qt_check(){         var p = navigator.plugins;         var name, ver = 0;         for(i = 0; i < p.length; i++){             name = p[i].name;             if(name.indexOf("QuickTime Plug-in") !== -1){ ver = p[i].version; }         }         return ver;     }     pageTracker._setCustomVar(1, "QuickTime Version", qt_check(), 1);      As you can see, I set up the `qt_check()` function so that it would return a value of zero if the user does not have any version of QuickTime installed. My idea was that in addition to getting a readout on the various versions of QuickTime, I would be able to see how many people don't have it at all by looking for version "0". But now that I have a few days of data, I find that although there have been 933 visits during that time, nobody registered as having QuickTime version 0. Should I be passing some other value to Google Analytics? Is the 0 causing it to discard the variable?


web framework/CMS fingerprinting?

Is there a piece of software out there that can tell me what framework or CMS was used to build a particular site? I'm thinking there might be something that can look at the way a page is formatted and deduce what, if any, framework or CMS was used to generate it.


GWT "Big traffic change for top URL"

I recently received an email from GWT saying that one of my URL's traffic has suddenly dropped. As it turned out the traffic to the whole site has drastically dropped, from some 300+ unique visitors to less than 10 a day. After doing some investigation, it turns out that sometimes when you load the website, the source shows only the following:                     The cookie is different, for example on one of my computers it said something along the lines of `zzzzzzz=something` (can't remember the value) and on a proxy it showed the above value. If the cookie isn't set, it just won't load the website. Now this obviously means that my website is somehow infected some sort of malware, however, Google doesn't return any search results. Does anyone recognise this malware or can offer some advise on how to find out what the problem is? Note: the website is a custom written website and although I tried to make it as secure as possible, it obviously seems I might have missed something. Technology used is PHP5 and MySQL. The URL is: http://ps3theme.net/ Thanks EDIT: This only seems to happen the first time round. I did a mass search on the website and nothing was found. If you view the source before you load the website, it comes up, but once that piece of code has been executed, it doesn't come up anymore for a while.


My Google image ad is consistently receiving 0 impressions

I set up my first Google image ad two days ago. It was approved almost immediately, but I have seen 0 impressions and 0 clicks since then. I tried setting my CPC to $4, which I figured should be high enough to win bids at lease _some_ of the time, but no luck. Anyone experienced this? My text ads continue to receive impressions but after two and a half days I still see nothing for the image ad.


Site hacked: redirecting to other site?

I have a site that appears and works fine. However if you search for it in Google a whole lot of other links come up, eg: `mysite.com/kamagra-viagra.html` Clicking this I get redirected to the Kamagra site. I have scanned my site for viruses and cant find anything. I am using the ModX Evo CMS. Can anyone suggest a particular file I should be looking for that causing this? EDIT: I have noticed some strange Javascript in my header:               <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mysite.com/home.html?getjs=metric.js"></script>     <script type="text/javascript">var j1s = document.createElement('script');j1s.type = 'text/javascript';j1s.src = 'http://www.mysite.com/home.html?getjs=metric.js?getjs=metric.js';var h1ead = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];h1ead.appendChild(j1s);</script>      This is not in my template file, but appears when the page is loaded. I suspect this is the issue.


Hijax == sneaky Javascript redirects? Will I get banned from Google?

### Question Will I get penalised as **"sneaky Javascript redirects"** by Google if I have the following Hijax setup (which requires a JavaScript redirect on the page index by google). ### Goal I want to implement Hijax to enable AJAX content to be accessibile to non- JavaScript users and search engine crawlers. ### Background   1. I'm working on a static file server (GitHub Pages). No server side tricks allowed (so Google's #! "hash bang" solution is not an option).   2. I'm trying to keep my files DRY. I don't want to repeat the common OUTER template in all my files i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc They will live in the main `index.html` ### Setup the Hijax   1. `index.html` page contains all OUTER html/css/js... the site's template.   2. `index.html` has a `<div id="content">` which defaults to containing the "homepage" html.   3. `index.html` has a navigation menu, with a Hijax link to an "about" page.   4. With JavaScript **disabled** (e.g. crawler) it follows link to `/about.html`.   5. With JavaScript **enabled** (e.g. most people) the link updates the url hash fragment to `/#about` and jQuery replaces the `<div id="content">` innerHTML with `$("#content").load("about.html #inner-container");`. ### AJAX content `about.html` _does not_ contain anything extra to try an cloak content for crawlers. `about.html` file contains enough HTML / CSS / JavaScript to display `/about.html` as a standalone page with it's own META data... e.g. `<html><head><title>About</title>...</head><body></body></html>`. `about.html` has NO OUTER HTML template (i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). `about.html` `<body>` contains a `<div id="inner-container">` which holds the content that is injected into `index.html`. `about.html` has a `<noscript>` tag as the first child of `<body>` which explains to non-JavaScript users that they are viewing the about page "inner content" - with a link to navigate to the `index.html` page to get the full page layout with menu. ### The (Sneaky?) Redirect Google indexes the `/about.html` page. However when a person with JavaScript enabled visits that page there is no OUTER html template (e.g. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). So I need to do a JavaScript redirect to get the person over the `/#about` page (deeplinking to the "about" page "state" in `index.html`). I'm thinking of doing a "redirect on click or after 10 seconds". The end results is that user ends up on an "enhanced" page back on `index.html` with all it's OUTER template - but the **core** "page" content is practically identical. ### Known issue with inbound links e.g. Share / Bookmarking It seems that if a user shares the URL `/#about` on their blog, when allocating inbound links to my site Google ignores everything after the `#` ... it allocates value to the `/` page - See: hashbang vs hijax. I can only try an minimise this issue offering "share" buttons on the page with the appropriate urls i.e. `/about.html`.


How to exclude certain images on web page from spiders?

I have a page with a main image on it that I want to be indexed. I also have a list of other images (thumbnails) on the same web page that should not be indexed or associated with the current page/main image because this is the same list of thumbnails for every page on the website. How can I stop Google from indexing this content against the page? Can I use a `Noindex, Nofollow`?


Is there anyway for me to legally and ethically hit the whois on thousands of domains?

I have a project that is building comprehensive data on thousands of companies and domain information is an important part of it, but often the whois services will say that you can't use them for high-traffic queries. So how CAN you do high-traffic?


Is link relevancy or rank more important?

My competitors who PageRank higher than mine have backlinks that come from completely unrelated websites with a a high PageRank themselves. I was under the assumption that relevancy was more important than rank, but it seems this is not the case. As an example, my roofing company has links from roofing-related websites, but my competitors have links only from high PageRank sites which are unrelated in this industry. And they (my competitors) have a considerably higher ranking. Are links from high PageRank sites more valuable/effective than links from relevant, but lower sites?


Multilingual website Google bot

**Introduction** I'm working on a project where a website exists out of 2 languages: **_nl_** and **_fr_**. The website itself is developed in ASP.NET where every page only exists once where the content of the page is dynamically loaded using localization. **Site structure:**               NameOfThePage.aspx     AnotherNameOfThePage.aspx     ...      All of these files are located under the root folder of the website, so their is no **_/nl/_** or **_/fr/_** subfolder. Using a url param `?lang=nl` the content of nl is loaded, if its `?lang=fr` then the content of the fr is loaded. Also meta tags, title, ... are beeing translated dynamically using the localization. **URL rewriting** For nice urls I use url rewriting like this:               http://www.example.be/nl/keyword-in-nl/     http://www.example.be/fr/keyword-in-fr/      _Rewrite rules:_               RewriteRule ^/nl/keyword-in-nl/ NameOfThePage.aspx?lang=nl     RewriteRule ^/fr/keyword-in-fr/ NameOfThePage.aspx?lang=fr      These nice urls are located in my website, sitemap and are indexed by Google. Also using the Webmaster tools > Fetch as Google, I get the correct content in the correct language. **Problem** The site is not scoring good in Google so I am searching for the problem. I read in blogs that using `?lang=` param is not done for getting the language content. But I use nice urls using the url rewriting.   * Is this still the same and must this be changed or...?   * Can this be the problem of my bad scooring results in Google? Also I read about `hreflang` to link alternative pages in different languages to each other.   * Should I use `hreflang` link elements in my case?


In Google Adwords the impressions and clicks are not detailed according to keyword

Exactly as it says in the title. Even though I have thousands of impressions and a few dozen clicks, it is not detailed according to keyword. Any ideas of why this may be? In other words, I would like to know which clicks and impressions came from which keywords. This way I can make better decisions as to which keywords I should use! ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bMGXP.png)


Help Google to recognise forum threads

I have seen some cases where Google search results can actually tell you how many posts/replies there are in a topic, how many pages there are, and I think I even saw it tell me the specific author of the post where my search result was, but I could be mis-remembering that one. ![Forum SERPs display](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hRP0H.png) The point is, Google is apparently capable of recognising forum threads. However, it never seems to recognise my site's forum threads. Now, I am using an in-house, custom-built forum, so it may be that I'm simply missing flags or not formatting in a recognised manner. So I'd like to ask, what is it that Google looks for to identify forum threads? What kind of data is it looking for, and how can I provide it?


Finding the 404 page template of a website

Is there a certain technique or make my life easier in finding the 404 page template of a website? What I do right now to find a 404 page on a specific website is to visit the website and edit their URL by adding a fake page. Then it will return the 404 page.


phpmyadmin: missing "export" link

If I use phpmyadmin's "SQL" function to input a query by hand, I usually have an option to export the query's result. There is a link named "Export" in the area titled "Query results operations". But if I use a very long query (for example with a long list of IDs), the export link is missing, the entire Query results operations area is empty. I have acertained that this issue relates to the actual length of the query. The number of rows returned is not the problem. In earlier versions of phpmyadmin, the link used to be replaced by a button when the query became too long for a link. I think there is a limit to character length of a GET request, I suspect that this is the reason for phpmyadmin not to display the link. How can I re-enable this? I know that I can use the command line to run and export queries, but many of my co-workers are not capable to do so, but are still required to run and export queries once in a while.


Powermapper alternatives and Google Analytics?

What is a good application to map the hierarchical structure of a website and maybe get some Google Analytics action going on? Powermapper is pretty expensive and the trial version didn't seem particularly good at importing Google Analytics CSV files as advertised. In fact, out of the 1000 pages mapped, exactly 0 were successfully imported. I don't really need all the features Powermapper offers anyway, so the price tag is a bit much. All I really need is like, a simple visual representation of my (automatically generated) site structure (like a hierarchical site structure) and the ability to integrate my Google Analytics stats (page views mostly) with it.


How can I inform search engines that the usefulness of some content on my site has a limited shelf life?

Let's say that I run a forum dedicated to computer hardware. Naturally, people are going to ask questions like: > What is the best laptop for running [os] Or > What is the best video card for under [amount] These may be perfectly fine discussions, but the content loses usefulness over time. An answer to either question asked in 2007 might still be relevant in 2008, but definitely not in 2012. Is there a way that I can tell search engines that certain pages might not give visitors what they're looking for after a certain date, and perhaps hint to a page on my site that _would_ provide good information? Perhaps something I could set in HTTP response headers, meta tags or even a site map?


Is it bad SEO practice to have two almost-identical URLs?

On my blog, after coding a function which trims stop words, I ended up with these two URLs which are identical if not for the post ID:               http://www.example.com/europe/france/597/june-weather-update          http://www.example.com/europe/france/997/june-weather-update      My platform - Wordpress - adds "-1", "-2", "-3" to the URLs when this happens but I removed it in my function. Now as I will have weather updates every year, it will be common for two or more links to be pretty much the same. Would this cause any SEO issues? Please note that the content of the two pages is completely different, not related to each other.


How much more or less value is placed in tailored meta tags?

I just built and released a site for someone. He has an SEO firm working for him. They made a really big stink about the meta tags not being completely customizable on a page by page basis. Yes, the meta tags are tailored to each page, but the tags are built on existing database data. Here's how our meta tags are created:               Home page     Title = "Set in a single field in the db.";     Description = "Set in a single field in the db."     Keywords = "Set in a single field in the db.";          Brand page     Title = "Specific Brand" + "Home page title";     Description = "Specific Brand" + "Home page description"     Keywords = "Specific Brand" + "Home page keywords";          Model page     Title = "Specific Brand" + "Specific model" + "Home page title";     Description = "Specific Brand" + "Specific model" + "Home page description"     Keywords = "Specific Brand" + "Specific model" + "Home page keywords";      Each site is about a specific product type. Pages are broken down by brand and then model. So, each page page is exceedingly similar content, plus brand and model specifics. Here are the working sites:               http://i-treadmillreviews.com/     http://i-ellipticalreviews.com/     http://i-exercisebikereviews.com/      My question is how much more or less value would a page have if it had more tailored meta tags for this specific set of sites?


How should creative commons attribution for images be shown?

Clicking through from Flickr to the CreativeCommons.org definition for "Some Rights Reserved" you find that you can reuse an image as long as you provide attribution. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qM0dm.jpg) If we want to use the image in a website how should we provide attribution? And does it have to be visible to the casual observer? Should/can it be:   * as an HTML comment _(not immediately visible)_   * in the file name _(not immediately visible)_   * in the ALT tag _(more visible)_   * as a full blown caption inside or below or across the picture _(easily visible)_ **Edit**   An additional possibility has occurred to me:   * Put a small  Images by Joe Photos, Andy Archer etc credit in the footer (visible but not distracting) Or should it be something else? Have I misunderstood the attribution thing?


Is it permissible to copy content from social networking sites?

For a social page on Twitter or Google Plus that promotes tourism by renting a car in worldwide locations, will it count as a negative if we copy the content from an authoritative website? For example, copying the exact lines from some website to promote our service in a particular location via that social page (that sends various backlinks to our website).


Google site search: customizing with rich snippets

I am considering adding Google site search to my eCommerce site. However, I wanted to have the results displayed as nicely as possible, ideally with an image. Is it possible to have rich snippets displayed in your Google site search? If so, does it matter if your domain doesn't have a high enough authority to show rich snippets in the SERPs?


external CSS file or CSS added to head via code?

I am building a website that uses a custom CMS. I am seriously considering not using external style sheets and adding all of the required CSS to the head of the pages that as needed (using PHP and include files). I am having a really hard time coming up with reasons not to do this. Here is my benefit list:   * CSS rules are completely loaded with the original page, no additional requests.   * The same CSS injection code and be used for both HTML emails and pages (!!!)   * CSS can be effectively changed/managed via code (just like LESS).   * Classes and id's can be managed with variables/arrays.   * Better management of unused CSS rules.   * Possibly rendered faster?   * CSS would still be separated into individual pages on the server.   * ...Or stored in a database. Am I on the right track here or is this a serious mistake?


Is it safe to leave the Joomla setting "Preview Module Positions" enabled?

Using at least Joomla 2.5 and 3.1. Under the template manager options the setting "Preview Module Positions" must be set to "enabled" for previews to work. My question is, why isn't this feature always on? Is it a security risk to have it enabled on a live site? Does it slow the site down? Since the template manager is an administrator component, I wouldn't think it would be a problem, but I can't see any other reason to offer this option. Thanks!


Traffic fall after a server problem

I have a website from which I analyse the traffic with Google analytics. Day after day the traffic (mainly from Google SE) incresed until I get a problem with my server. For one day the server has been offline and after that I have no longer had as much users as I had before. Now it's like the site is no more referenced on Google index (but when I type "site:mysite.com", I still have all the results). Do you know if this is a normal behaviour and if the traffic will come back as before (the server has had problems two days ago) ?


Are there any guidelines for laying out screen "real estate?"

I'm wondering if there is any information about creating a decent page layout so that your website will appeal to users of all resolutions. For example, the optimal width for pages. It seems like on my resolution, most websites have their content centered and covers about 80% of the page, which is easy on the eyes. Or maybe the height of the website's logo/header -- some sites I stumble upon have a huge logo with links or navigation under it, making it so that I need to scroll down to see the actual content, like articles or images (these sites don't keep me for very long). I understand that every user is different and may have browser extensions, page zoom or may be running some ancient system that displays in 640x480. I'm not looking for a "best" solution, but rather, some guidelines about designing to accommodate different resolutions. Basically, how can I make sure that I don't design a page where a paragraph might display in several easy-to-read lines on my resolution, but it turns into a single line on a 1920x1080 resolution and makes it hard for the user to follow?


When designing a website that is targetting large number of consummers, what design tips would you give any designer to make the website popular and memorable amongst its users?


Do you write HTML by hand or do you use a WYSIWYG editor?

...or maybe a combination of both?


How to target a particular image from multiple images on a page in google plus post

I have multiple images on my page. But I want only one image to be displayed in the google post. At present the post shows all the images on the page in the post in the form of slideshow. Could you please provide a solution for this?


Allow users to delete or answer Facebook comments on my website or from Facebook

I am creating a website, something like business directory. I want to allow my users to have Facebook comments on the pages. I read that I should connect their comments with their Facebook ID so they can be allowed to delete them. I wanted to know, can my users answer or delete those comments directly from Facebook, or must they be only on my website to answer?


Why doesn't Webmaster Tools update crawl errors?

I submitted a sitemap with incorrect URLs. After a few days I looked at Webmaster Tools crawl errors and I saw 1000's of URLs with not found errors. So I went and fixed the problem with the URLs and resubmitted the sitemap. The problem is that Webmaster Tools is still showing me the same **old** not found errors. 1) I know that the URLs in the updated sitemap are ok 2) I can see that the date of the not found error URLs corresponds to when the problem was. Now I tried using the "mark as fixed button" - but that only lets me select the first 1000 URLs, and then it shows an empty list.... and I have about 40,000 not found URL errors. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oyjCM.png)


Why don't I have a loop error with these redirects?

I know this may seem a bit of a question in reverse, but I actually _don't_ seem to have a problem I just want to make sure before I proceed. I have 2 domains `domain1.com` and `domain2.com` and a directory `my_directory` at `domain2.com`. I have `domain2.com` setup as an "add on domain" in the cpanel account of domain1.com so that when I go to domain2.com I am taken to domain1.com/my_directory but the browser shows domain2.com in the addressbar so it looks and acts like and is a separate site. However when people browse to `domain1.com/directory` I want the address bar to show `domain2.com` _not_ `domain1.com/directory`. So I put a redirect in the htaccess file to redirect `domain1.com/directory` to `domain2.com` and it works perfectly, but I think it shouldnt and I'm worried I've done something wrong. My question is this: domain2.com was already redirected to domain1.com/directory in the first place (I see the redirect in my cpanel under addon domains) so by adding the second redirect in the htaccess file I should be creating a loop! Could somebody please set my mind at rest and show me why not?


Tricky mod_rewrite challenge

I list about 9,000 records on my little site. At the moment I'm showing them with a dynamic page, like               http://domain.com/records.php?id=019031      But I'd like to start using meaningful URLs like this one on Amazon               http://www.amazon.co.uk/Library-Mythology-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199536325      where the title string on the root level gets ignored and requests are redirected to the records.php page, which accepts the ID as usual. Does anybody know how I could achieve that with mod_rewrite? I'm wondering how I'd deal with requests to my other root-level pages, like `http://domain.com/contact.php`, that I don't want to redirect to the records page.


How much traffic is needed to effectively conduct split testing?

A friend who's asking me for advice about getting more customers from his website (SEO, conversion rate, some other stuff), thinks he should finish getting a good conversion rate with split testing before spending money on Pay-Per-Click programs like AdWords. From what I've heard, you're supposed to use the traffic gained to test accurately. He wants to know why 100 visits/day isn't enough. Is it?


Legality of screenshot of another website

I wanted to write a blog post about a common feature of some popular websites. To illustrate, I'll need to take screenshot, crop and shows the specific features that's I'm referring to. I wonder if that's legal? Do I need to inform the webmaster for each of the site before I publish my post? A second question is that since my focus is that specific feature, so I guess I should blur out the content of the screenshot, or I shouldn't alter anything?


Site cannot be found in Google

I've made a site for a friend, and here's the url: http://mensasana.it Issue: There is no trace of it in google. He used to have an html site, and at least it was indexed. I changed it to a Wordpress site, and after 20 days, all results are gone. I mean, if you look for site:mensasana.it you get no results at all. So, a few days ago I've submitted sitemap, checked that robots.txt is correct, checked with lynx browser... al is good. I tried to add a listing in Google places, and when I have to enter the sitename, I get: Website is incorrect http://mensasana.it/ What am I missing?


How to redirect IP to domain?

My IP _xxx.xxx.xxx.xx_ is pointing to `example.com` at GoDaddy but I just noticed that when I type the IP in browser, it doesn't redirect to the website, how can do this? I am sure this will happen through _httpd.conf_ but unsure about what I need to add.


Short URL management software to host internal url shortening

Does anyone know of any management software for hosting our own short url service for internal use? Our marketing group wants this for Twitter and etc. so that we can push our brand. We have both windows and linux servers where we can host. ***Addtional info: Yes we want to do ourname.com/hkjl45 instead of going to bit.ly or tinyurl.


Is there any research into error rates on websites?

My organization runs a reasonably large web application, which occasionally has errors (although not as often as you would think from dealing with bug duty). I was wondering if there is any research into acceptable and/or best practices for error rates on large websites, from either a usability perspective, or whether there is information publicly available for any other large sites. And "no errors ever" is not the answer I am looking for. :-)


Schema.org and Person's logo instead of image/photo

I want to mark up someone's website with Microdata, so I was going to use her name and logo using schema.org's Person vocabulary. However, there is no such a thing I could use for her logo type. She doesn't have (or want) a picture on the website, so I will use her logo instead. Is the `itemprop="photo"` appropriate for this case? I found this "photo" thing here but it is not defined on `schema.org`.


Schema.org for Product Reviews

I have a product reviews on a site and I am adding schema.org markup to the reviews. Here is the code I am using:

Text of the review itself.     Author Name, Location of Author

      This is all the reviews are. When I test the page using Google's Structured Data Testing Tool I receive this error:               Error: Incomplete microdata with schema.org.      My question is what data is missing that is required? I don't see which data is required on the Schema.org page for reviews.


DNS problem, old dns servers are not going away

I have a website, and I changed the nameservers of the domain of my site, now people see it with my new nameservers however I still see the oldnameservers (Which are sedo's nameservers). I tried ipconfig/flushdns it works and clears the caches, however when I enter the domain the cache restores back with the old nameservers. What should I do ?


SimpleViewer + lightbox

Is it possible to integrate any kind of Lightbox with SimpleViewer? But I **don't want** to display SimpleViewer in Lightbox. I want to Lightbox show when I click on one of the images in SimpleViewer. Does anyone tried that with success? **EDIT** I have a SimpleViewer page now. I just want to bind handler to clicking an image (as normally in HTML based pages), fetch big image url and show that image (not SimpleViewer!) in Ligthbox/ThickBox/FancyBox etc.


Google Analytics setup for 3 related blogs

I have 3 distinct blogs. They are powered by Wordpress Multisite http://blogs.crocus.co.uk/kitchengarden http://blogs.crocus.co.uk/chelseaflowershow http://blogs.crocus.co.uk/plantsmans What I want to do is set up Goolge Analytics to track them What would be the best way to do this? A separate account for each? A "Blogs" account, with different profiles... etc..?


Is it allowed to use one frame of a hollywood blockbuster on my website?

I want to build a website where users can upload screenshots from movies. Does anybody knows if this is (il)legal? I'm living in europe/germany.


Rewrite Issue on index.html

I have `index.html` on my `html_directory` on my website also I entered a rule as follows:               RewriteRule ^index.html$ newindex.php      It seems requests to my site is routing to my index.html file , my questions are:   1. Do I need to have index.html file on my `public_html` directory or I can remove it?   2. Is my rewrite rule correct?   3. Based on my rule on `.htaccess` which page is open : `index.html` or `newindex.php`?


How to do with out-of-date or expired pages

I have a "classified advertisement" website that user can submit their advertising posts on it. Each post will be valid for 3 weeks. After then the post will become "expired". Expired posts will not be physically removed, we just remove the link between the website and the post. So users cannot find the expired posts from the website, but they can find the expired posts if they type in the URL of the post directly. After the post become expired, users can create another new post with content same as the expired post so as to extend the advertising period of the posts. I have to allow this. My problem is, google will index the expired posts and the new posts, and is reporting duplicated content found on the website. So what's the best practice to remove the expired content from search engines?


Fixing validator error "cannot generate system identifier for general entity"

The W3C validator shows a "cannot generate system identifier for general entity" error when attempting to validate a page that contains the following code:               <script type="text/javascript" src="http://view.light-speed.com/teamspeak3.php?IP=85.236.100.27&PORT=27617&QUERY=20274&UID=506987&display=none&font=12px&background=transparent&server_info_background=transparent&server_info_text=%23640d04&server_name_background=transparent&server_name_text=%23640d04&info_background=transparent&channel_background=transparent&channel_text=%23640d04&username_background=transparent&username_text=%23640d04"></script>      How do I get the validator to ignore this code when testing for errors?


How to include high resolution version of thumbnail

I'm running a tube site that has a thumbnail for each post/video (running via Wordpress, 500k posts). When I first created the thumbnails they were a fairly large size, around 640px in width each and because of that I was seeing a lot of traffic from Google Images. After streamlining the site and resizing all of the thumbnails down to 170px rather than scaling them down I'm worried that Google isn't going to rank the images as high as they would be at a larger resolution, so is there a way to include the higher res versions and serve them to be indexed instead of the smaller ones?


Association badges improve conversion rates?

Has anyone experienced a conversion rate improvement based on association badges/images ? I.E. Badges like BBB association logos, that they're a trusted vendor of x, etc?


setup test domain ready for site launch

I'm about to launch a site on a live server, after developing it with xampp on localhost. I first want to test the site before i make it live. How do i setup this up so I have it in a subdomain (i.e. test.livesite.com)? Is it just set it up on the server and only add the cname dns setting? Or is there a better way? All i am trying to do is add my site to the server, so i can edit it and look at it before I set it as live.


Is there anyway I can check the load time of a webpage in cpanel?

I found that sometimes my website is slow, and I suspect that this is the web host's problem. But the web host insists on that the website is fast. The problem, I suspect, is that the website is fast sometimes, and slow most of the time. The people at web host would just measure the load time of a webpage when the page is responding fast and tell me that there is no problem at their end. So, I am thinking about capture the load time for every webpage request, I am not sure whether is this information already available in cpanel ( I am using cpanel)? If yes, how can I get it?


SEO script/link to another website

I am improving my centralized CMS system design. Till now, all the CSS, images, javascript were loading from the central domain name, i.e. domain a.com, c.com, d.com CSS/JS/images loads from b.com. I was wondering whether this have any effect on the SEO? as in, pagerank, backlinking.


Is it possible to transfer a domain without a "gap" in Whois privacy protection?

I currently own several domains on which I am using a Whois privacy protection service to hide my personal details. In the near future, I would like to transfer some of these domains to a different registrar. It has been many years since I last performed domain transfers, so I am no longer knowledgeable about what it involves. However, I have read from several registrars that they ask their customers to disable Whois protection before effecting a domain transfer. Since there are several websites out there that publish archived versions of Whois information (and ask handsome money for the information to be hidden, of course), I would prefer to avoid having such a "gap" in my privacy protection. I figured that these websites would fetch Whois information mainly when a query is effected through their own website. However, I have found out that at least one of these sites had a copy of the Whois information for a new domain up on their site within hours after I registered it, so they must have some other source (of course I used a Google search to find that out, not their own site). What that tells me is that the time it takes for the domain transfers to go through would be more than enough for these rogue websites to cache my information. If my new registrar offers privacy protection for domains right from the point of registration as well, is there no way to transfer the domain between the two without reverting to my default Whois information in between?


How do I get thousands of PDF files "found" by google search

I have approximately 5,000 PDF files in 4 different categories on our Joomla website that are currently only accessible by via a PHP/mySQL seach script. The filenames (which are numbers) and file locations are stored in a mySQL db and there is a simple PHP script that sends the query and returns a hyperlink to the correct file. The seach is based on a user typing in a number which corresponds to the filename (people using this will know what the number represents - it's a legal case number). I'd love for the files to be accessible via a google search but I'm not clear about how to make google find them. Should I just create a text page for each of the 4 categories which contain the links to each of the files and make those easily accessible by google's search?


Is a 404 on a non displaying files a problem

One of my clients web pages has a error in the theme which calls a redundant .css file that does not exist. The page however, looks fine. Thus the client is not willing to have the error fixed. What reasons can be given for fixing the error when it does not cause any issues with the page display.


Cookies Audit help

Someone can explain to me what is the purpose of these cookies? I'm doing a cookies audit and I didn't find anything on the web Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: NID Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: SNID Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: khcookie Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: PREF and Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: ServerPool Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: TAReturnTo Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: TAUnique Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: v1st Thank you very much, Gino


Google analyzing URL

We all know Google analyzes URLs in order to get relevance. That's why JavaScriptoptimizer.com hits the first place for the "javascript optimizer" query. These are my questions:   1. Does Google differentiate between keyword.com and keyword.info?    2. Also does a .info website get less points?


URL rewriting via forward proxy

I have an app that runs inside my firewall and talks out to multiple end points via HTTP/HTTPS on a non-standard port e.g. `http://endpoint1.domain.com:7171`, `http://endpoint2.domain.com:7171` What I want to do is route these requests through a forward proxy that then rewrites the URL to something like `http://allendpoints.domain.com/endpoint1` (port 80 or 443) then on the other end have a reverse proxy that unwinds what I did on the forward proxy to reach the specific endpoints. The result being that I can route existing app requests through to specific endpoints across the internet without having to change my app software. My questions are:   1. is this even possible?   2. is it a good idea, are their better ways to do this?   3. Can this be done with IIS and Apache as the proxies?


Embedded youtube video does not show in IE8 64bit

When embedding a youtube video on my website, i get a box with a red 'x' in Internet Explorer(64 bit) Any ways to fix this?


www.mysite.com/ and www.mysite.com/index.html dupe content?

I am running a static web site via Apache. So, if you visit http://www.mysite.com/products, http://www.mysite.com/products/, and http://www.mysite.com/products/index.html, you see the same thing. Will this result in dupe content, from Google's perspective? Should I htaccess redirect http://www.mysite.com/products and http://www.mysite.com/products/ to http://www.mysite.com/products/index.html? I have DirectoryIndex set to index.html. Further, I have the following meta tags in place: On the home page:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/" />      On the products page:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/products" />


PSD to CSS Service

Does any one here recommend online services where I can have my PSD (or other image format) design sent and they give me the HTML+CSS of it? I saw a few of those on the internet, but I am looking for tried-and-tested services, and to see if there are any of those that you guys recommend me to stay away from.


If an visitors IP address contains "google" or a similar keyword, does this mean they were a crawler?

I have a huge list of IP addresses recorded from various visitors to a website. A huge amount of the visitors, in some months over 70%, came from IP addresses that contained keywords such as google, yahoo, bot, crawler, etc. Does this mean that those users were infact search engine crawlers? If so, why are their so many crawlers in my visitor records in comparison to genuine human visitors? (and if not what's the explanation?) Thanks in advance. UPDATE Here's a few examples of the data: > livebot-65-55-209-133.search.live.com > > crawl2.cosmixcorp.com > > crawl-66-249-70-78.googlebot.com > > lj511965.crawl.yahoo.net > > lj611054.inktomisearch.com > > ss125.dal0.gigablast.com > > crawl-15.cuill.com


What is the Best Ad Network for a Flex Website?

Can anyone recommend an ad network for a Flex website other than OpenX and Mochi Ads. I desperately need to get some ads on my site. Any advice?


How do I delete a goal in Google Analytics?

I am picking up a client's Analytics account and they have a large number of Goals set up that I want to delete. They don't hold meaningful data since the client misunderstood the nature of goals. I can't see an option to delete a goal. Can someone show the best way to wipe these Goals and start again?


Creating a backdoor in (your own) PHP website

I've just built a website for a client and I'm a bit worried he won't pay me once it actually goes live. I've heard there are ways to create a back-door so I could access the website whenever I want. Can anybody point to where I could learn to do this?


Value of links on negative review pages

A general assumption with SEO is more links = higher rankings. What I would like to know is does Google know what those links are referring to. I.e. if somebody gives a product a good review on their personal blog and links the review to another companies website (who are selling the product), would Google take consideration for the review/description link. Essentially would Google know that this link refers to a product. So if somebody is looking to buy a product, Google would know to include this page because the previous link said it sells products rather than just having information on products. Then to take this further, does Google know if a link is positive or negative. For example, If somebody creates a post saying, do not visit `example.com`, `example.com` is bad because of blah blah blah. Would Google know that the link is getting bad feedback and therefore would it have a negative affect on rankings, or would Google go oh its just another link and give it better rankings?


Best web environment for running python powered website

I am new into python programming. 1st is was a php developer. Learnt php by poking around the internet. now in my collage course most of the course are based on python or java. So i thought to Get myself into python. As i am new into python web development i noticed that there are many ways to do this job like doing CGI code, use mod_python in apache , use a MVC framework like Django etc. As i developed a php chatting server for my collage usage it received more then 1000 page requests per second. Now i want to convert my php project into a python website. So, What technology should i use? Which one is more fast? Secure? Please tell me which one to use and explain me why?


SEO duplicate content

I have a blog about a game. Lets say that the game releases some news and gives it to _Blog A_ and _Blog B_. Now my blog ( _Blog A_ ) will copy that news and paste it in an article. Somebody else's blog ( _Blog B_ ) will now also copy that news and paste it in an article. Would this result in a duplicate content penalty between _Blog A_ and _Blog B_?


Subdomains or folders?

I'm working on a services type web application and I have to choose how to set up the URLs for the customers. Which solution is better, as a subdomain (e.g.: client.myservice.com) or as a folder (e.g.: myservice.com/client/) ? I'm not interested in the SEO value (for the SEO it's better to choose the folders), but the tech/scale/admin aspects. Thanks!


How can I pass referrer header from my https domain to http domains?

My website is 100% https. I have links to other http domains. The referrer header is not set when linking from a https page to a http page. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer > If a website is accessed from a HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connection and a link > points to anywhere except another secure location, then the referer field is > not sent. I would prefer that other domains _can_ see the referrer so that they know that traffic comes from my domain. Is there a way to force this header or is there another solution? ### Update I've done some basic testing using a redirect:               http page  -- link to http  --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer intact     https page -- link to https --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer blank     https page -- link to http  --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer blank     https page -- link to http  --> 302 redirect --> http page = referrer blank      The referrer is lost when linking from a https page to a http redirect page on my own domain. So there is no referrer on the redirect.