Domain in PENDINGDELETE, question about drop

A domain I want is in the pendingDelete stage according to WHOIS. I have been monitoring it since redemptionPeriod, and it entered into pendingDelete 5 days ago today. After checking a few services (SnapNames, etc), they report it is scheduled to drop on the 11th (7 days, by my calculations). I'm not quite sure what to believe. The domain isn't _highly_ valuable. It is to me and one other company. I can see no backorders placed on the big name sites, so I'm thinking of trying to get it without a backorder service. Any insight as to when it will **actually** drop? I've read 11AM-2PM PST, but I'm unsure. Thanks.


Is it possible to filter or segment an event on a user's eCommerce value?

Basically if you have an event set up, lets call it "Bought an Upsell", assume that it has all appropriate values set up, Action, category, label, value, noninteraction. is there a way to answer the question, who triggered this event, where their check was less than $15? Also API metrics, dimensions, filters, segments, would be highly preferred to anything in the online GUI. TIA For any help.


Redirect Google crawler to different robots.txt via .htaccess

I have googled for the answer all day and still couldn't find an answer. I have a virtual subdomain `www.static.example.com` which is a mirror site of `www.example.com`. It means I have just one root folder for subdomain and domain aswell. I want to redirect crawlers to different `robots.txt` file - `robots_static.txt` when they see `.static` in url in which I will forbid indexing via `/disallow` command. I want to do this because I have duplicated content in Google search results. Subdomain is showing the exact same content as the main domain. Does anyone know how could I achieve that crawlers sees `robots_static.txt` instead of `robots.txt`? What I have managed to find so far is this:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.static.*$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*robots\.txt.*\ HTTP/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^robots\.txt /robots_static.txt [NC,L]      but when I check in webmaster tools, it still sees `robots.txt` as my robots file instead of `robots_static.txt`, so it crawls and index everything twice. What did I do wrong? Thanks EDIT: This is my `.htaccess` file               ##     # @package      Joomla     # @copyright    Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.     # @license      GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt     ##          ##     # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!     #     # The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems     # with some server configurations.  It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already     # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in     # your .htaccess file.  If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to     # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's.  If they work,     # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.     ##          ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.     Options +FollowSymLinks          ## Mod_rewrite in use.          RewriteEngine On          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]                         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.static.*$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*robots\.txt.*\ HTTP/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^robots\.txt /robots_static.txt [NC,L]               ## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.     # If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below     # This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!     #     # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]     # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]     # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})     # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage     RewriteRule .* index.php [F]     #     ## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.          ## Begin - Custom redirects     #     # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to     # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those     # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.     #     ## End - Custom redirects          ##     # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL     # is not directly related to physical file paths.     # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).     ##          # RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/system/.*     RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET          ## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.     #     RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]     #     # If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request     # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php     # and the request is for something within the component folder,     # or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the     # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script     RewriteRule .* index.php [L]     #     ## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.          <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|ttf|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">     Header set Expires "Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT"     Header set Cache-Control "public"     </FilesMatch>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>         Header set Connection keep-alive     </ifModule>          ########## Begin - Remove Etags         #         FileETag none         #         ########## End - Remove Etags


Google update on 3/9/14 has caused loss of sitemap indexed pages. I have no Idea what's going on

I was up to at least 30 blog posts indexed out of maybe 40. That number was slowly climbing. Then the update came along and while we've been adding posts, the total indexed number has been going down. I've noticed this primarily from the update in April. As to what the update entails that would cause this to happen is baffling. We're down to 19 indexed posts at the moment. Google in its crawl stats claims it has 25, which is still less than what we should have. Has anyone else had this problem? Sure this is a small blog, but that's less reason for it not working perfectly. I see this spirally to the point where we have no indexed pages. I've seen other posts regarding indexes, for instance: Google indexes some of pages, but most are ignored from a website, even though a massive sitemap is submitted but I'm losing pages here Will provide more data per basis What's a good way to mitigate this problem? What can I do to make sure this problem doesn't happen again? and what are good indicators that I have a problem in the first place? External resources welcome. I've been searching the blogosphere but it's primarily general information.


How to change cPanel URL? Example: mydomain.com/cpanel

I want to change my website's cPanel URL/path for security reasons. I have a VPS with shell root access, running centOS 6.5 64-bit. I want to change cPanel path for my website on the VPS to be something complicated like (mydomain.com/dj73db/dndpanel/) instead of (mydomain.com/cpanel). Does anyone knows how can this be done on a VPS environment? Appreciate your answers.


My Server is returning a 404 instead of 403 when access if forbidden - is it good or bad?

via .htaccess, I forbid access to folders that have no index page inside (`domain.com/images` for example), and also block my site completely for several user-agents (such as `wget`). When I test to see what these kind of users see when accessing my website on each of these occasions, The error message that is displayed is something like: > "Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access /images/ on this server. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request." The title is 403 error, but in my server logs I see that the server is returning a 404 error. So - Is this "good" or "bad"? What does the above message means?


How to handle new domain names?

I have a new product which I'll call a pen ink reloader. I have a website using my products name, for example, www.inkywink.com which I want to have accessed by searches for keywords such as "pen ink", "pen out of ink" "ink for pens" etc. , since nobody knows that a pen ink reloader exists. I see that its quite difficult to get on front page for these keywords since they have lots of competition. However I notice that the exact phrases I want to rank highly for are available as domains. I purchase "www.penink.com" and "penoutofink.com" which for arguments sake are highly searched and the perfect keywords to get eyes on my money site www.inkywink.com .   1. What is my best option to leverage those names so that they appear near top of searches so that I can get traffic to my money site? Do I just have them redirect 301 to inkywink.com or should I create small original content on each with links to my main site?   2. If I just have them redirected to inkywink.com, am I able to use keywords in metatag and headers for each site separately or do they all automatically obtain the same headers and tags as the site to which they're redirected ? Thanks to anyone who can help as I'm a real newbie to all this.


Beginner's Apache mod_rewrite - use custom file for website root

Plain and simple - I want user to get main.php file instead of index.php, when he enters website. Such a straightforward task has caused me a lot of pain, and couple of hours googling. Following does not work:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^/$ /subdomain/main.php      This doesn't work either:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^/$ http://localhost/subdomain/main.php      Where is the problem? P.S. The rules are placed in `.htaccess` in `/subdomain` directory. I'm using WAMP, if it matters. P.P.S. Logs show "File not found" message.


Can a web-server be reached in other ways than through `HTTP` or externally?

**A server hosting an application built in PHP:**   1. Can the server be reached in other ways than through `HTTP` or externally?   2. Is `GET` and `POST` only populated through the HTTP protocol?   3. Is `HTTP` headers, `GET` and `POST` the only source of input for a server/web application?   4. Is connecting to a website with `telnet` any different than with a browser?   5. What other access points exist? Do they pose a security threat? Common ways to counter them?


How can I replicate Google Page Speed's lossless image compression as part of my workflow?

I love that Google's Page Speed is able to losslessly compress a lot of my images, but I'd love to make it part of my workflow, prior to uploading a site and making it live. Is there anything I can run locally to give me the same lossless compression? I currently export images from Export For Web from Photoshop, and use a little application called PNGCrusher to reduce file size of PNGs. I'd love to find a faster way though than saving out and replacing the individual images from Page Speed's results.


Is feeding Googlebot and Bingbot crawlers with "special" data common thing in rich internet applications?

So I faced next problem: my server and my rich internet application (RIA) client are using/generating so much JSON data that is rendered on fly even on just page creation complete that standard dull no js crawler will see not much data on my site. I know about progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript but they (crawlers) tend sometimes not use JS at all. Even my mobile phone can do such thing!). I can always open chrome or some adobe air app like Scout and get parsed HTML and all links it really has. Demo (dull html):               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">                                     <title>Cloud Server Services Selection Menu</title>             <meta charset="UTF-8" />             <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">              <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">              <meta name="description" content="Services List" />             <meta name="keywords" content="art, navigation, C++, services, web, web-services, exibition" />             <meta name="author" content="CF2011" />             <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">                                                         <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/cf.css">             <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/cf.index.application.css">

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      If I save that parsed data and open it up in a browser I would see all that real user will see and all I want crawlers to see. I already see me creating a chrome browser API based service that will work like normal file service for usual users and would be sending rendered HTML pages for crawlers. Do such services exist already? Does any one use them? What could be the crawlers' author's opinion on such services?


Can front end code cause an application error in a CMS user interface?

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this question, but here it goes. I'm using a Ruby based CMS (which shall remain nameless) which has been throwing an application error when I try to update a piece of my site. Tech support seems to think that my front end: jQuery, CSS, HTML may be the cause. Is this even possible?


Is it okay to use persian utf-8 characters in our urls?

It's best for SEO purposes that we use the main page keywords in our urls For example stackoverflow uses this technique too.               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/show-utf8-characters-in-console      I wonder if it's okay to use something like:               http://www.mobadele.com/categories/طلا-نفره


why host video on Amazon S3 instead of hostgator

i have some videos- flash that i want to host on my blog. should i use Amazon S3 or can i host it using my hostgator account. any ideas


Fixing Google Chrome text antialias for .ttf fonts

I have found a topic which presents a solution on how to get antialising working in Google Chrome - Windows, but they use `.svg` format. I have a `.ttf` format and I import all of my fonts like this at the moment:               @font-face {font-family: "t1"; src: url(../fonts/title/circle.ttf);}     @font-face {font-family: "t2"; src: url(../fonts/title/sanserifing.ttf);}     @font-face {font-family: "t3"; src: url(../fonts/title/serveroff.ttf);}     @font-face {font-family: "t4"; src: url(../fonts/title/pupcat.ttf);}      How can I achieve antialising done right in Google Chrome Windows?


meta robots for logged in vs. not logged in users

On a site I'm working on, The homepage has generic content for visitors who aren't logged in. When a user is logged in, the content shown is personalized to them and could even be considered private. So when a user is not logged in: url: `http://mydomain.com` `<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">` When a user is logged in: url: `http://mydomain.com` `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">` Since both URLs are the same, are there any SEO concerns since the robots directives are different? Is it better to send the user to a different URL for their personalized homepage, and why?


AdSense: Beginner questions

I am completly new to adsense, although I read service disclaimer, their adsense academy information page etc. I still have questions I want to ask you. ### 1. Two adsense units on same page If I put two units to my page, both units should have same class "adsbygoogle" and I need only one usage of these scripts, am I right?               <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>     <script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});</script>         ### 2. Unit width/height Can I change width height of unit in its source code. Are there any problems if unit does not have a standard size, recommended by google? For example with image adverts?                 <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px" ...      ### 3. How can I let google know when my adsense is ready? My adsense account is approved, now I have to create my units, then google will check it. Until will be checked only empty space will display on my page. How can I let google now, that my units are ready to be checked? ### 4. Self clicks What if, for example, I misclick to adsense in my own page, it automatically means that my account will be blocked? Isn't it too hard? How can I protect myself against this? My colleagues at work or neighbour in summer cottage share same IP address with me. Does it mean that if they click to adsense, google will penalize me? ### 5. Addblocks Almost all people I know use addblocks. So I assume that majority of people will not notice any adsense on my webpages. Is there any way how to avoid this and bypass addblocks, or not? What are you experience with adsense income and addblock? Thank you for any advice.


HTML Character Entities/Special characters with crossbrowser/crossplatform support?

I used some good looking ones from http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref on my site but I just noticed that they don't show on mobile browsers of Android. For example:   * ⪦ `⪦`   * ⪢ `⪢` Which special characters and HTML Character Codes (entities) have crossbrowser/crossplatform support?


Optimizing for multiple keywords using different internal anchor text for the same page

I have a website with breadcrumb navigation and an additional header navigation. The header navigation is not static and looks different depending on where on the site it is located. My idea is to mix the anchor texts in the header navigation and breadcrumb navigation. So for example I have 3 keywords for each page and would mix them just algorithmically. Example: From the navigation i link from 60 pages to one and the same subpage. The anchor texts distribution is 20x KW1, 20x KW2, 20x KW3. The idea behind is to describe the content wider that the user will find on the subpages. Does someone have any experience with such cases and know of advantages or disadvantages?


Site gone from Google due to dmca complain

My sites traffic gone null but after Google receive one DMCA complain for my site. My site is a MP3 search engine so I can index copyright MP3 out of my knowledge. I received a message in webmasters tools in and I have removed the copyright content from my site but traffic from Google is not increasing. Questions   * What is the problem?   * Do I need to tell Google that I have removed the copyright content from my site?   * If yes then why I have lost my site traffic from Google forever?


how far do you go with creating subfolders for content?

When you create a site (small, static content) how far do you go with folder detail? Do you have a /images folder in the site root, or /content/images or /images/site, /images/public? I'm one of these people who likes things to be "just so" in regards to folders, but what's the best way to do it?


How to remove www from both http and https

I've got an ecommerce site where we're have some reports (random) of the cart not operating correctly. I think it might be due to removing www not working with https my current htaccess code looks like this:               # remove the www     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]      What do I need to do to also force this on https?


Which payment provider, such as PayPal, should I use for marketplace style site?

Let's say I'm making a site similar to e-bay (connecting buyers and sellers). Which payment provider should I use as of today?


Does Google penalize for H1 & H2 that are not human readable?

I was curious how a competitor's Web site was ranking so high for many of my keywords, especially since the company is located in another city. Looking through their source code I noticed at the top of every page the following coding was being used:

keyword, keyword, keyword, so on

keyword CITY, keyword CITY, keyword CITY, so on
      The CSS class "SEOonly" reads "height:1px;" essentially making the text in both unreadable to Humans and the top of their content section clean, but Google is certainly indexing all of this. Are either of these acceptable SEO that I should be implementing on my Website? I am using a Wordpress framework with my own custom theme, a fair amount of images with good ALT tags and a robust SEO plugin. However it appears these guys know a heck of a lot more than me.


How to host a subdomain of a domain which is associated with blogger?

I have a domain `www.example.com` which is hosted on Blogger platform. Is any hosting site like Blogger, WordPress where I can host my sub-domain like `abc.example.com`? My original website `www.example.com` will be always hosted into the Blogger platform. If I want to host any of my sub-domains on another hosting site which supports HTML, is it possible?


"https://" refers to random site, "http://" is broken, but "http://www" works

I'm running a website which is acting extremely strange.   * At the time of writing, this link works: `http://www.example.com`   * This link doesn't: `http://example.com`   * But it does work if you copy/paste it and run it in Incognito...   * This link (after ignoring a warning) serves a totally unrelated and unknown website: `https://example.com` I have no idea how to debug this issue. I have contacted the hosting and domain company to investigate the issue. How is the last issue even possible?


Help with cron syntax

I need to setup a cronjob on my webhost. The documentation for my webapp reads as follows: > you will need to create following cronjob: /public_html/cake/console/cake > -app /public_html/app master Also, I want any output written to a log file. My hosts documentation says this: > You can have cron send an email everytime it runs a command. If you do not > want an email to be sent for an individual cron job you can redirect the > command's output to /dev/null like this: mycommand >/dev/null 2>&1 I don't know the syntax to implement this from a cron job.


Will an incorrect change frequency in my XML sitemap harm my website?

What happens if I set the change frequency of a page to daily and don't update it daily? Will this make search engine blacklist my site? What is the accepted changefreq to balance search indexing ?


rel=nofollow, JavaScript slider content, SEO

My website has all content on one page. I'm using JavaScript to slide (animate) between the various "subpages", so only the subpage content is shown. The menu buttons are as this: `<a href="#welcome">Welcome</a>` with a `return false`. In regards to Google, other bots and SEO, would it be best to use `rel="nofollow"` on those menu links? I mean, the menu links don't point to anything, only when viewing with a browser


Sales tracker that allows complex queries?

On a site, every click on a product should be registered by a sales tracker: _price, type, etc._ The sales tracker should provide an API so that complex queries can be performed, such as: _Which products of a type "teapot" had a price below 20 EUR?_ Requirements:   * Recorded data should be available for querying no later than two hours after it has been recorded. For example, there are reports that Google Analytics may take up to 24h to update data. That is not acceptable.   * Querying doesn't need to be fast, but recording does (of course). **Which sales tracker allows complex queries against collected data?**


Facebook Like Boxes returning 500 Internal Server Error

Since a few days I have seen several of my clients websites, our business website and even my own personal website starting to show blank space where the Facebook Like Box iframe used to be. Here's an example of the Facebook iframe code I'm using:               <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?id=140736345955440&width=296&connections=15&stream=no&header=no&height=325" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="margin:-1px 0 0 -1px;border:none; overflow:hidden; width:296px; height:325px;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>      This code worked before but suddenly the iframe URL returns a 500 Internal Server Error from Facebook. Why is the iframe breaking and reporting 500 error?


SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml

I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there? I know there is a lot reading out there for seo, urls, xml sitemaps. I read a lot. Seams like search engines become more sophisticated nowadays. Many new possibilities in the sitemap xml protocol. So I'm asking for up-to-date practical experiences! So maybe define the problem a little bit closer: For usability I prefer having one landingpage like facebook, foursquare, twitter with the url mydomain.com/ for all incoming visitors because it is quite an act to set up a individual landingpage for every city. localizing and regionalizing this site is technically not a big deal. Depending on the ip, cookie and session i know the region and the city of the user and page areas can be individualized. Is there any way to tell google that this url is regionally individualized? That the same url maybe in english as well as german, french or spanish. I know I can set a alternative page url in the sitemap.xml. What happens if I link one and the same page with different languages? Why not link one and the same page for different regions, cities, streets this way? Is there anyway to tell google the site is regionalized for cities or areas? Are search engines and crawlers capable of this at all? Some of this is already implemented in the current version of the sitemap.xml protocol. Is this only working for the famous big sites since their websites are already linked from external sources having a extremely high page rank and public awareness? Are individual url landing pages for upcoming services necessary for seo?


Weird Results A/B Test in Google Website Optimizer

I set up a test in Google Website Optimizer that has a 3 variations - original (A), B, and C. In order to further validate the results of the test, I added a variation C that is exactly the same as the original. And thats where the results get weird. 6 days into the test, the best performing variation is C. It outperforms the original by 18.4%! How is that possible? Do I now discount the results of this test entirely?


How do I add Google Tag Manager on Blogger?

I tried to paste the code generated through Google Tag Manager to my blog and I verified that the code was copied exactly, but always I get the same message error: > "The reference to entity "l" must end with the ';' delimiter"


Google new algorithm: My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website

My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website with reference to their source. Our articles write by high level processionals in the field that they write about - we also pay them high salary. In recent google algorithm change my main site rating down very seriously. **What should we do to restore company main site google rating?** our solution and ideas that not working well:   1. rel="canonical" to source website (we already have it before google change without results)   2. meta "original-source" but not have rating influence (we already have it before google change without results) Edit:: maybe we should delete rel="canonical" from main website articles that refer to our other small websites (because this articles in main website not indexed in google)? Thanks in advance


Recovering from an incorrectly deployed robots.txt?

We accidentally deployed a robots.txt from our development site that disallowed all crawling. This has caused traffic to dip dramatically, and google results to report: > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. We've since corrected the robots.txt about a 1.5 weeks ago, and you can see our robots.txt here. However, search results still report the same robots.txt message. The same appears to be true for Bing. We've taken the following action:   * Submitted site to be recrawled through google webmaster tools   * Submitted a site map to google (basically doing everything possible to say "Hey we're here! and we're crawlable!") Indeed a lot of crawl activity seems to be happening lately, but still no description is crawled. I noticed this question where the problem was specific to a 303 redirect back to a disallowed path. We are 301 redirecting to /blog, but crawling is allowed here. This redirect is due to a site redesign, wordpress paths for posts such as /2012/02/12/yadda yadda have been moved to /blog/2012/02/12. We 301 redirect to wordpress for /blog to keep our google juice. However, the sitemap we submitted might have /blog URLs. I'm not sure how much this matters. We clearly want to preserve google juice for URLs linked to us from before our redesign with the /2012/02/... URLs. So perhaps this has prevented some content from getting recrawled? How can we get all of our content, with links pointed to our site from pre-and-post redesign reporting descriptions? How can we resolve this problem and get our search traffic back to where it used to be?


Best way to distribute an ISO? (open source, so must be free)

I want to distribute a LiveCD of my Open Source project.   * ~300MB ISO file.   * No revenue, so no money.   * Around 1000 downloads per month expected. What is the best way to distribute it?


Generating snapshots of Ajax content for BingBot vs GoogleBot

We have a website whose content is generated dynamically via JavaScript. For the purpose of search engine indexing we also provide snapshots of the pages. Here are some examples: https://www.recreyo.com https://www.recreyo.com/yangtze-river-cruise-china https://www.recreyo.com/beijing-xian-train-china If you view the HTML source of one of these links, you will notice that there is content specified within "noscript" tags. This is a mirror of the dynamic JavaScript generated content that users will see, and has been put in place for search engine crawlers to process. Now GoogleBot has correctly processed the noscript content and displays them in search results, but BingBot is not indexing the pages. Google Results Bing Results I've made sure the sitemap has been submitted and waited for about four days. How do we solve the problem? Ideally, I'd like to do it the noscript way as it is simple and elegant. Alternatively, I could add the content in standard markup and use CSS to hide it, but I would like to avoid doing that if possible, because that is just unnecessary extra work for the browser. Does any have any insight into this problem? Specifically, is there any evidence that BingBot will not process content within noscript tags? Thanks.


Trouble with encode URL rewriting ASP.NET

Some mounths ago I used links to image as: http://rielter77.ru/imgrs.axd?w=300&file=24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg 3 weeks ago I create a URL rewrite rule: from http://rielter77.ru/imgrs.axd?w=300&file=24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg to http://rielter77.ru/images/300/24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg if I searching my image in google I see my images and they URL as: http://rielter77.ru/imgrs.axd%3Fw%3D300%26file%3D24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg and URL rewrite rule doesn't work with this URL. Why?


Where to put rich data markups?

I have a company website which I'm trying to make rich snippets. Where should I put the `<span itemscope..` tags for Corporation? In every page? Or just the "about us" and/or "contact" pages? ## P.S Will it work if I use more than one page? For example, the address info is in "Contact" page, whereas employees info is in "About Us" page. can I merge two tags on different pages?


Google Analytics goal

I need help with setting up Google Analytics Goal. Actually I have set it up but I have problem connecting the site with the goal. I have two optional goals - destination and event. Event goal is supposed fire when a contact form is submitted. The destination form is is exactly the same as a goal but it is fired when redirect url is visited. This url is provided after successful form submission so I think this is the better one. I have set it up in the GA admin panel but I don't know what to do next. When adding event tracking I need to add the snippet of code in the anchor as an attribute. What should I do now? Thanks


Compromised private RSA key

What sorts of problems can be caused by a compromised private RSA key? Is this even that big of a deal? I'm getting very little specific info on Google. :(


My WordPress site is not tracked by Google Analytics anymore

I have changed my WordPress theme. Suddenly I could see that Google Analytics is not tracking anymore for the past two days. How to re-verify that? Also I have enable tracking code in _All in one SEO plugin_ today?


Migrating Wordpress blog to New Webhosts, something is adding a # and gibberish

I just migrated a WordPress blog from one host provider to another. Did a clean install on the new server, and everything seems to be working fine except all the permalinks for some reason add a string on the end like this: http://keefermadness.com/2011/09/behind-the-scenes-of-my-nasa-grail- experience-day-one-am#.Tpq5DpzpP-g That #.Tpq5DpzpP-g shouldn't be there. Any idea where this is coming from and how to eliminate it? Thanks, Ryan


In apache, how to map site.example.com to example.com/site

I'm sure there is documentation for how to do this, but I don't know what it's called so I don't even know how to start searching. On my webserver, `example.com`, i have a site called `site`. It's accessed by going to `example.com/site`. I want it instead to be `site.example.com`. Can someone point me to apache documentation to enable this?


Amazon Associates - Reporting on revenue generated by particular pages?

Is there any feature in the Amazon affiliates system which will allow be to know, for a given month, what revenue was generated by individual pages? Perhaps e.g. by adding a querystring param to the referral link?


Google Doorway Penatly

Ok so i have been trying to figure this out for about a month now. The case: I have a blog network with unique content on each post and at the end of each post each blog links to x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post before linking to x1 in the post i use a redirect with like this: theblog.com -> redirect-url.com/redirect.php?=x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post -> x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post (all links at the bottom of the posts have no-follow) For some strange reason about a month ago all blogs which i have done this on lost around 90% of their traffic. Could this be the cause of the penalty? Is this type of linking considered as link farms by google? All help and tips are greatly appreciated!


Prevent azure subdomain indexation

Let me explain my situation, I have an azure website (with azurewebsites.net sub domain), and a custom domain.com, built with asp.net MVC Both are being indexed by Google, but I've noticed the custom domain is being penalized and it doesn't show up in results, it only shows when I search for "site:domain.com" I want to remove and block the azurewebsites.net subdomain from Google. I've read the "possible" solutions:   * Adding robots.txt: won't work, because the subdomain and the domain are the exact same content, so subdomain.azures.net/robots.txt will lead to domain.com/robots.txt, removing the domain as well.   * Adding the tag, is the same situation as the previous point.   * I'm using a CNAME register to redirect the domain to the subdomain, so I can't redirect to a sub directory. Do you have any other ideas?


Why doesn't Google remove my noindex and 404 pages?

I've added 404 error codes and no-index meta tag to pages quite some time ago. However, when I check in Google Webmaster Tools, looking at the graph of "removed" pages from their index, I see very low numbers that don't correspond with the amount of error codes and no-index tags I have on my pages. I can also reach those pages through Google Search. I've double checked the implementation and it seems fine. Can there be another reason?


Are these hacking attempts or something less sinister?

I just had a look through our web server error logs, and Terminal services is reporting: "Remote session from client name a exceeded the maximum allowed failed logon attempts. The session was forcibly terminated." Hundreds of times, every 10.5 seconds or so for a period of about 5-10 minutes, once at 2pm yesterday and once again at about 1am this morning. We CURRENTLY have RDP open to the outside, as I am just completing the setup and now and then I/Others need to jump on from an outside office/location (VPN isn't an option) As these are so regular, am I right in assuming that they may be the result of some sort of dictionary attack? or could something like an internal admin's hung session cause such a mass of events? (Win Server 2008 R2)


How does Facebook advertising tool calculate estimated reach?

I'm trying to understand how Facebook advertising calculates the reach. Here is the issue: I have 10.000 fans from my country, but when I select "show only to my fans", the reach is estimated do 6.000. Why so?


What are the search engine affects of registering the same domain on multiple top level domains?

I'm looking to register a few more domains for my company, I have my- company.com at the moment, but now require my-company.com.au and my-company.nl and others, for example `.ie`. I'm running through my options and wondering what is the best.   1. Duplicate all the content on the .com package and make a replica at the other domains   2. Buy the other domains but do a 301 redirect back to the .com domain   3. Create a full new website with different content for the new domains, thus having no text duplication We currently sell all over the world so would like to raise our search rankings in various countries. Can this be done by buying the domain in the country, and if so, how will the above methods affect our search rankings? Any other suggestions are welcome!


Cross domain conversion tracking using goal funnel visualiation

We have a product signup process that takes the user from our website to a signup form on a separate tld and then, following successful signup, they are directed to the payment and product selection stage which is on a subdomain of the starting domain. website1.com -> signup.website2.com -> controlpanel.website1.com We have installed the the new analytics.js tracking code on each of the sites and we are loading the auto linking module for multiple /cross domain tracking. We are getting real time data from users browsing controlpanel.website1.com so the tracking is definitely working. To see drop off rates in our checkout process we have set up two goals to track different behaviour. Unfortunately absolutely no data is being collected in these goals. This is very odd as we have been testing the processes using dummy user accounts to simulate a signup in order to test the tracking so there should have been some data collected. So here are my questions..   1. When setting up a goal do we need to have every single step in order, or can we skip a step and still have the goal tracked?   2. We have a feeling that each link in the process needs to be tracked individually. Is this correct?


Good idea to use Google Sites for static content and custom PHP for dynamic

We have a site based upon Google Sites. Now we would like to create a login area (HTTPS) with a mixture of dynamic and static content. Is it a good idea to utilize Google Sites and use iFrames for the dynamic parts of the content? The reason why I like Google Sites, is that it is so easy to change content and immediately see what it will look like.


Override .htaccess from parent directory

I have a local LAMP stack (without the MySQL. LAP stack? Anyways..) and I am using this as a development environment for a production website. The site is placed in a sub-directory of the Apache2 document root and managed by Git. My Issue is: I have an .htaccess file tracked in that subdir by Git for URL rewriting on the production server. On my local test site, these rewrite rules break almost everything (because the site is in a subdir, not the doc-root). Is there any way to override/disable that .htaccess file without modifying anything in the subdir? My doc root is /var/www/ with the site being hosted at /var/www/foo/


Redesigning foreign website for my portfolio and offer it?

I've had an interest in web design for a long time and am constantly trying to learn something new. I do not have any references in my portfolio, but would like to start freelancing. Is it bad practice to redesign a website from a local company and use it for my portfolio? Do I infringe any copyright? What if I offer the redesign to the company? Has someone done this before? If so, share your experiences.


Is the programmatic addition of keywords and descriptions worthwhile?

I see here: http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/1648/seo-for-aspnet-web-site/ this code:               protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)     {       // Add meta description tag       HtmlMeta metaDescription = new HtmlMeta();       metaDescription.Name = "Description";       metaDescription.Content = "All winners of major book, movie, and music awards, namely Pulitzers, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, Hugos, Oscars/Academy Awards, Sundance, Cannes, Golden Globes, Grammies, American Music Awards, Country Music Awards, Indies";       Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaDescription);            // Add meta keywords tag       HtmlMeta metaKeywords = new HtmlMeta();       metaKeywords.Name = "Keywords";       metaKeywords.Content = "Books, Movies, Music, Prizes, Awards, Pulitzer, Pulitzers, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, Hugos, Academy Awards, Oscars, Golden Globe, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Grammy, Grammies, American Music Awards, AMA, Country Music Awards, CMA, Indies, Indies Music Awards, Amazon";       Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaKeywords);     }      ...but if you already have the description and keywords in your html, like so:               <meta name="keywords" content="Books, Movies, Music, Prizes, Awards, Pulitzer, Pulitzers, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, Hugos, Academy Awards, Oscars, Golden Globe, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Grammy, Grammies, American Music Awards, AMA, Country Music Awards, CMA, Indies, Indies Music Awards, Amazon" />     <meta name="description" content="All winners of major book, movie, and music awards, namely Pulitzers, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, Hugos, Oscars/Academy Awards, Sundance, Cannes, Golden Globes, Grammies, American Music Awards, Country Music Awards, Indies" />          ...would adding the code be a waste of time? What effect would it have?


sitemap.xml approach on non-indexed site

On a site that has a _robots.txt_ file that disallows all crawling...               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      ...does it matter what the _sitemap.xml_ content is? Is it better, or does it make a difference at all, if requests to _sitemap.xml_ return a 404, a 403, or an empty XML file?


Using post title and file name as alt text?

There is this plugin in WordPress called "SEO Friendly Images," it replaces the `alt` text in all of the images on my site with the combined version of the file name and post title. For example if the title of my page is " **How to Start a Car** ".   And then the file name of the image is " **car-keys.png** ".   The plugin will make the `alt` text of the image " **car keys How to Start a Car** ". The URL for this plugin is: http://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-image/. It sure seems like it got some good reviews (and 1,000,000+ downloads), however would this be a good idea to use? I don't want to mess up my site's SEO and get penalized for something like keyword stuffing, etc. by Penguin/Panda.


Why is the bounce rate high and how do I improve it?

I recently launched a site for reviews on mobile application games and after a couple weeks of running it I have a really high bounce rate 92%. I was just wondering if anyone could have a look at my site and give me your thoughts on it and how I could improve this bounce rate it would be very much appreciated, thanks in advance! _Website link_ http://www.theapplist.com/


What is the difference between not found and not followed in Google Webmaster Tools?

In Google Webmaster Tools under Crawl Errors I found 18 Not Found and 16 Not Followed errors. What does this mean, and what is the difference between them?


Understanding product search links in sitemaps

I am looking at sitemaps of a few large websites like `ebay.com` and I noticed that the URLs in the sitemap point to search results rather than the actual product page and I have confirmed that all the URLs are pointing to search results of some keywords. For example this is a sample URL in the sitemap of `ebay.com`, it points to search results of a set of keywords passed in the URL.               http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=womens+spenco+sandals+9      Is this a best practice to not to include the actual product pages in the sitemap to reduce the sitemap size? if it is indeed the case then how do the actual product pages get discovered then? Any guidance understanding this would be greatly apprecitated.


How to maximise revenue from limited number of advertisers

Suppose you have a page that ranks very well for a very specific subject (and gets a reasonable amount of traffic). You don't provide what the visitors are looking for but there are **just 3** companies in the marketplace who do. What strategies could you use to place advertisements on that page to get the maximum revenue? Some initial thoughts   * Adsense - obvious, but I thought this was better suited to long tail situations rather than a very targeted traffic with a limited number of potential advertisers?   * Affiliate Links (assuming some/all of the 3 companies do these, but what if they don't?)   * Auction off advertising space directly with the 3 companies involved. In which case would you do either as     * 'Sealed bids' - where they get to place one offer, highest wins. No bidding war but chance to get more than 'market price' as determined via auction.     * Do as traditional auction where bidders can see whats been bid, but not by whom - could introduce bidding war.


Why subdomains of Blogspot/WordPress like sites are treated as different domains or sites?

As I know, `maps.google.com` or `mail.google.com` all comes under the same domain and its all are subdomain. Entire web treats these subdomain as the part of main domain and they have same Alexa rank, PageRank and all. But in another hand, take a look on `blogspot.com`/`wordpress.com`/`webs.com`; these are different sites but blogs or websites under those domains are treated as different sites. Its new URL, all have different PageRank and Alexa rank as well. Tts about millions of subdomains under those few domain, have almost similar IP address, hosting and CMS, still why they are called different domains?


Dozens of private IP addresses in Google Analytics

I was reviewing my Analytics for the past year and noticed a couple dozen different IP addresses showing up as referrals. I tracked a few of them down to be Google (why are Google IP addresses coming in as referrals?), but there are still quite a handful that come from "private" IP addresses: `10.x.x.x` `192.x.x.x` `172.x.x.x` for the `10.x.x.x` range of IP addresses, they are all using Port `15871` which I found interesting. I have the company IP address blocked from Analytics, so it shouldn't be any internal visits. Any clue what's going on here?


How to prevent Blogger from converting relative URLs to absolute URLs

If you create relative links in Blogger, it tends to automatically convert them into absolute links or to add `http://` in front of the URL. Is there any way to prevent this? **Update** : I have reported this to the Blogger forum as an issue. Let's hope Google will fix it.


In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain

I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps:   * `http://www.example.com`   * `example.com`   * `hostedsitemaps.com` Furthermore, since we were having hard to placing the XML sitemap on our site(FrontPage Issues) we decided to hire **pro-sitemaps.com** to create, host and upload the XML file which they did. Thus, I have another site `hostedsitemaps.com` on our webmaster tools for the site. **`Hostedsitemaps.com` displays:**   1. 900 urls submitted 800 Indexed.   2. Crawl errors and Search queries: No data available. **`www.example.com` displays:**   1. 889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed.    2. Crawl Errors: 14 Soft 404 796 Not found    3. Search Queries: 8104 **`example.com` displays:**   1. 889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed    2. Crawl errors: 48 Soft 404 91 Not found    3. Search Queries: 8104 **My questions and need for help are as followed:** **1.** Why are our domain based sites in webmaster tools (`example.com` and `www.example.com`) showing only 1 URL indexed while the `hostedsitemap.com` has 800 indexed? **2**. Should we have 3 domains configured for this "one" domain in Google Webmaster tools? **3.** Should we eliminate/delete the `hostedsitemap.com` from webmaster tools completely and take off that XML sitemap? **4** Does having `example.com` and `www.example.com` impact web ranking? **5.** Any other thoughts or help in this very complicated matter for us.


possible to use an IP derived from Dynamic DNS in htaccess IP allow/deny commands?

On a website I manage, I want to use an .htaccess file to allow access to a certain administrative directory only from my home IP address, which is dynamically assigned by my ISP and therefore changes -- not regularly, but it does happen. I also have an account from DynDNS and have one of the auto-update clients making sure it always points to my actual home IP address. I don't actually host anything at home; I just have set up the Dynamic DNS account. Is there any way to combine these features: that is, is it possible write the .htaccess allow/deny commands at my outside webhost in a way that my home IP address is not hard coded into the command, but instead is somehow derived from the Domain Name that the DynDNS has assigned me, by doing a real-time lookup every time the directory's .htaccess file is hit?


Are there any pre-fab CSS Sprites and styles I can apply to my page?

I'm more of a computer programmer than a designer and I need some sample CSS images that includes images for:   * TabControl   * Close Button for TabControl   * Folder Open/Close   * Buttons   * etc... Does any premade themes exist that I just start using? I don't want to start at zero and learn everything at once!


Facebook contest policy no-no?

I would like to post a link on a Facebook page where it will exit Facebook entirely and go to a client's website, where people will be on a page (client's) where they can enter their e-mail address to be entered in a temporary database file with rules and disclosures etc., for a draw once the number of entries reaches 100 for instance. Once the number of entries reaches 100, a random winner is picked and notified via E-mail. The functionality is as follows:   * A link is place on a Facebook page leading to an external page   * The page is a form to merely enter their email address for a contest   * The email is placed in a temporary file   * An automatic E-mail is sent to the address used for confirmation using SHAH-256 hash   * The person receives the Email saying something to the affect "Please confirm your Email address etc. - If you did not authorize this, simply ignore this message and no further action will be taken".   * If the person clicks on the confirmation link, the Email is then stored in the database and the person is again notified saying "Thank you for signing up etc."   * Once others do the same process and the database reaches a certain number, the form is no longer accessible and automatically picks a random Email.   * Once picked, an Email is automatically sent to the winner stating the instructions, and notifying me also.   * Once that person clicks yet another confirmation link, the database is then automatically deleted. I have built this myself and have no intentions of breaking any rules, nor jeopardize the work/time/energy I have put into this project. Is this allowed?


What is the correct format and attributes for adding a PDF to an XML sitemap?

I have found numerous questions and blogs about including PDF files in an XML sitemap but cannot find a single one that gives a working example or which attributes to use: What document types can be included in an XML sitemap? Should I include PDF files in my sitemap.xml On Google's Sitemap Guide it states: > The following table outlines the tags required for Sitemaps listing web > URLs. To add more detailed information about specific content types, see > video, images, mobile, News, and software source code. Should .PDF be treated as a regular URL or News or is this out of date and there is one specifically for .PDF files? Most of my PDFs are not news but brochures, case studies, and high resolution image files... speaking of should the high resolution image files be treating with `<image:image>` then set the `<image:loc>` to the .PDF?


IE6 and IE7 rendering issues

How do I get my pages in IE6 and IE7 to render the height like in IE8 and Firefox? right now in both IE8 and Firefox the page dimensions is 1024 x 800 but in IE6 the dimensions are 1024 x 859 and IE7 the dimensions are 1024 x 855.


www is not displayed in Google Search result

I have a website at `www.matrimonyteam.com`; when I perform a Google search it is only displaying `matrimonyteam.com` in search results rather than `www.matrimonyteam.com`. Is there is any setting required at the time of hosting or in a config file to force the full domain name, with the `www`, to appear in search results?


Is there an advantage to using HTML versus PDF for printable product information?

I want to create a printable informational sheet for the products on my website. I have over 1000 different products. Each product has a product page and each product page needs a link which will display the product's info sheet and offer an easy print option. Some factors are:   * Info sheets will contain product specific info which will come from a database.   * Info sheets may include product specific images, stored on the web server.   * Info sheets will contain info that is user specific (supplied by form fields).   * We are considering emailing a copy of the info sheets.   * Info sheets will display the company logo and simple design elements. I have lots of reasons to use HTML:   * Less CPU intensive on server   * No need to save or delete files   * Can be shown directly in emails   * Can be formatted with the same css as my website   * Versions automatically change as the database changes.   * Less cumbersome to view and download I don't have as many reasons to use PDF:   * Widely accepted standard.   * Files can be saved by the client easily.   * Files can be shared. HTML looks like the way to go, but this is new territory for me. Are there other compelling reasons to use one over the other?


Video Player for hosted videos

I'd like to add videos for a webpage, but I don't want to use Youtube or any other site to host them, i'd like to host them on my own server. what are some good tools availible for video players on a site?


Domain expired- possible to find content that was on websites?

I had a domain that I let expire, and was subsequently purchased by someone else. I have several links on my website that are now directed towards their new site. I was wondering if it is possible to find a cached version of the website from when I still owned it, and that way I can save the materials from that page.


What do you do if you don't want to put a keyword in your title?

Suppose you have a website about a subject, for instance, popcorn. Everything in your site will be about popcorn and your regular visitors are popcorn enthusiasts who will understand that even articles without the keyword "popcorn" in the title are about popcorn. How do you tell this to Google, if meta tags are not being used any more? Or do you have to keep adding "popcorn" to titles to have your articles show up in searches and news alerts? It's very awkward to keep adding a word to titles for this reason. For instance, your title is `Why corn is good for you`, but it won't show up in Google searches, so do you really have to change it to "Why corn, from which popcorn is made, is good for you"? I've noticed that adding the keyword to the website name, as in `Why corn is good for you | Popcorn Every Day` is not good enough.


css issue in wordpress

I am using a WordPress plugin and it has collapse arrows in the option. However, by default the word press theme has bluestar(*) being used for ul. In the page http://everything-evans.com/, on the sidebar, under the title 'In the past', I want to display the collapsing arrows, and the star and yellow dots should disappear. Let me know how to achieve this. Thanks.


How to manage Google Webmaster Tools for Multiple Clients

I need to set up Google Webmaster Tools for several of my clients. Is it alright to add multiple sites under my own Google account and then add clients as other owners if they need access? If further down the line my clients decide they want control would setting it up like this cause problems? Any advice appreciated, thanks.


How do you get Google product rich snippets working on WooCommerce

I have just set up a WooCommerce site and I am trying to get the reviews on it to show up in the Google rich snippets. How can i do this? Is there any out- the-box plugins to make it work? Currently it pulls in some data in the Rich Snippets Structured Data Testing Tool but it does not show the 'Star rating' and 'Price' in the search results?


Indexing a multilingual website

I am trying to create a multilingual website using the Django framework, all default content is English. I have added a native translation (Dutch). https://mydomain.com/ redirects to the user request language setting. (This is default behaviour by adding Django's LocaleMiddleware) > LocaleMiddleware tries to determine the user's language preference by > following this algorithm: > > First, it looks for the language prefix in the requested URL. This is only > performed when you are using the i18n_patterns function in your root > URLconf. See Internationalization: in URL patterns for more information > about the language prefix and how to internationalize URL patterns. > > Failing that, it looks for a django_language key in the current user's > session. > > Failing that, it looks for a cookie. > > The name of the cookie used is set by the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting. (The > default name is django_language.) > > Failing that, it looks at the Accept-Language HTTP header. This header is > sent by your browser and tells the server which language(s) you prefer, in > order by priority. Django tries each language in the header until it finds > one with available translations. > > Failing that, it uses the global LANGUAGE_CODE setting. So visiting '/' will result to either: https://mydomain.com/en/ or https://mydomain.com/nl/ Title, description, keywords and content are language based so every page is (almost) entirely translated. So: https://mydomain.com/en/my-awesome-page/ has a Dutch flag (language switch) that holds this link: https://mydomain.com/nl/mijn-fantastische-pagina/ This works great. Also my page's header holds alternate content based upon the language variable, here's the pseudo code:               <html lang="{{ current_language }}" />     <head>         {% for lang_code in other_languages %}             <link rel="alternate" hreflang="{{ lang_code }}" href="{% url current_url language=lang_code %}"/>         {% endfor %}     </head>      This will result the english page to look like this:               <html lang="en" />     <head>         <link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl" href="https://mydomain.com/nl/mijn-fantastische-pagina/"/>     </head>      Now my problem is Google indexes my Homepage in english, while I want dutch visitors to see the dutch title and description in google's results (unless they look for the english translation). I believe the problem might be due to auto redirecting the root url ('/') or automatically setting the language, should I exclude robots somehow? I have read this article but I haven't figured out the problem: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2010/03/working-with-multilingual- websites.html Also if I add a site map to a multilingual site, would it be better to add a different sitemap for each language, or make one large tree based on language roots?


Is there a permalink to the latest version of Joomla (zip archive)?

I'm trying to automate WHM to download and install Joomla into any new cPanel accounts I create, rather than doing it manually each time. However I can't find any permalink to the latest version of Joomla that I can use to grab the required zip. Does one exist?


Huge spike in traffic tracked by Google Analytics from Safari browsers

My site `urbanindo.com` recently experienced huge spike in traffic tracked by Google Analytics. The huge spike sometime shows in several same pages. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/juWeb.png) This is odd because I rarely experienced that much traffic before. Some pages can have hundreds of visitors at the same time. But when I read the webserver log, those pages only showed up in only one or two entries, not hundreds like the GA showed. But the only similar thing about the entries is that they are using similar browser agent.               Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3     Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3      And when I opened the **Google Analytics > Audience > Technology > Browsers & OS** and I plotted the chart based on the browsers, I saw that the huge spike came from Safari. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pbXc0.png) This huge spikes started to happen since the beginning of this August, which happens to be when I use multiple webservers behind load balancer (although I'm pretty sure those two are not relevant). Is there something wrong with my GA configuration?


Need to redirect all files/folders under subfolder but leave subfolder alone

I hope my title makes sense. Here is what I have: On our previous website, we had URLs similar to the following: www.example.com/support/BIOS/JXT/0ABWDA22.zip This same file on our new site has the structure: www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/support/BIOS/JXT/0ABWDA22.zip However our new site also has a page located at: www.example.com/support so I cannot use something like ^/support/(.*) as it rewrites and breaks the main support page. I am looking for any suggestions. I thought that perhaps the easiest way to handle this would be to ONLY rewrite urls where there is a file extension present? I have been googling for this very thing but haven't really stumbled across a solution as of yet. Thanks


Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Metadata - Is it widely adopted?

Recently, I have seen in a couple sites around Australia's meta data AGLS tags.               <meta name="AGLS.Audience" scheme="agls-audience" content="All"/>     <meta name="DC.Publisher" scheme="AglsAgent" content="Hyundai"/>      I have never seen this kind of mark-up before and discovered: http://www.agls.gov.au/ Just wondering whether there is a big community / support out there for the adopting these tags? Any thoughts would be great.


Subdomains vs folders, for multi account/users application

So, for a multi user web app, what is better:               http://username.domain.com      Or               http://domain.com/username      I would like to get feedback about security, scalability and maintenance specifically, app is php based, so it is .htaccess based for url rewriting.


Yahoo media player not working with Ruby on rails

I have a yahoo media player embedded in my webpage. I am currently using Ruby on Rails to create/edit my web page. When i click the play button next to a track the YMP waits a while and then goes to the next track without playing the first one. I then get a warning on my second (last) track that its file could not be found. Does anyone has a better recommendation for an audio player or a way to fix this one?


Grapeshot crawler ignoring robots.txt

Has anyone come across a crawler called Grapeshot? They are hammering the same page repeatedly on our website. I believe they are looking for ad related keywords, based on previous content ad campaigns. The odd thing is we never ran any such campaigns on the page they are so interested in. We do have only a few pages running AdSense, is this what has attracted Grapeshot? I've added the following declaration to my robots.txt, but they don't seem to be honouring it?               User-agent: grapeshot     Disallow: /      Any ideas on how to block this nuisance crawler? I'm starting to think the best way is by setting up IP rules in IIS?


Site Template Images - Borders, Lines, Curves

Most of the sites posted here and elsewhere mentioning sites with free full- sized backgrounds. I was curious if there is a site that has free graphics for creating a template, with images like corner radiuses, gradient borders, and other smaller graphics to help put together the site template. That's something I'm in need of, and was wondering if its around anywhere. Thanks.


Is bad, from a SEO perspective, to have many pages on a website that only contain YouTube embedded videos?

Will Google penalize my website for having plenty of pages that only contain YouTube embedded videos. Is this a bad idea SEO-wise?


Google's usual behavior on examining articles

There is an original content(article) from a website, I copied it and paste it in a Paraphrasing tool. The tool did a great job in paraphrasing. I tried checking using copyscape and it did detect paraphrased article. My next question is, how about google would I be penalized or not crawled for this. I understand the ethical issues on this.


Way to list "Contact Us" email address on web site, yet reduce likelihood of spam?

What's a good way to list a "Contact Us" email address on a web site, while reducing the likelihood it will get spammed? Is putting the email address in an image the best technique, or are there others?


Numbered list with subclauses

I'm trying to create a legal document with decimal numbered subclauses, then alpha and roman subsub and subsubsub clauses. (whew!) ` **1. MAIN HEADING**               1.1 This is an example of a sub-clause and you can see that even though the words continue on to the right, it would be best if it wrapped around and formed a block to the right of the decimal number     1.2 In doing so the normal second clause should also wrap around but the second subsequent clause should hang in from the left and be in a block.  See below for the remaining clauses         (a) this list is completely for demonstration and should  not be construed as legal language in any way, nor should make sense in that         (b) should the indentation take  more than:             i) this many lines it would be overly big             11) legal numbering continues in the sub-sub clauses with the use of lower roman lettering and should flow below in a block             iii) and continue the formatting on to the next line but be underneath the body of the the text and not begin directly below the number itself. In this example the text carries out to the right but I need it to wrap around underneath.      Sorry its so wordy, need this to show the example. **_2. Second Clause Heading_** 2.1 and so it continues thus   I've found the examples for decimal numbering but they do not create a block out to the right of the number, and they carry on with multiple decimals rather than alpha and roman sub clauses.


how to include zend library while uploading?

I have completed my project in zend framework for the first time. But I don't know how to include zend library in webhost. So, I uploaded(uploading) zend library about 24MB in my library folder. Can this be done without it? Or if there is any better solution or suggestion?


How easy is it to code in-built videos?

First time poster so please don't bite my head off. Basically, I'm having a site built for me and I don't really know anything about coding but I'm not too sure if I trust my web developer. I asked him recently about adding a feature where I could display built-in videos like in this page and he quoted me quite a high amount for it. I just wanted to double check with you guys whether this is a difficult feature to add in and whether it justifies a reasonable amount of money on top of what I'm already paying him. Thanks in advance for your help.


<!--hppage status="protected"--> Bad for SEO?

I've just come across this protection code:               <!--hppage status="protected"-->      It hides the html and page code from anyone who wants to right click and view source. I can't see a work around to this - so its great... However is this terrible for SEO?


What new cross-browser features can we use if we drop support for IE6?

My company is dropping support of IE6 and I just realize that we can use a set of great features.   Is there a list of CSS, Javascript features which we can use with IE6 RIP?


Managing OpenX campaigns for several advertisers

We're running our own OpenX instance with several advertisers. Each month, the advertiser's campaign should reset its available impressions, based on whatever plan the advertiser paid. I think this is a pretty common scenario. Question is: how do you manage this? Do you expire the old campaign and create a new one with the new amount of impressions? Or do you just add the impressions to the existing campaign?


Link of image and text

I am currently linking related and text (caption) in the following way:               This is caption      Meaning I combine both and text inside the same tag. Is that the right way to do it, syntax and SEO wise? Joel


How to share web content to mobile?

I am newbie. I built a site. But I am not know how to share web content to mobile? I mean add some button, user click the button, share site url or content to android, iphone or even basic symbian system. Should I make a contact to telephone company for a SMS service? Or only some 3rd part service on Internet? Is there any tutorial for reference or any software? Many thanks.


.htaccess RewriteRule $1 contains wrong value

I have a RewriteRule that is not behaving as I expect. I want `site.com/author/fred` to map to `site.com/author/index.php?a=fred` I have an author directory within the site root. The author directory contains the .htaccess file below. My problem is that `$1` contains the value `index.php` instead of the regex match. The entire .htaccess file is below. Can you see my mistake? Thank you.               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on          RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$  index.php?a=$1 [NC,L]


New requests for /cache/ URLs

A few weeks ago requests following this type of pattern:               http://mysite/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40       http://mysite/otherfolder/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40        started to appear in my logs. Almost all the requests come from Indian IPs. Anybody know what is generating these requests and the intent?


Accessible web design

Not sure if this question is a good fit for this forum, if not maybe some moderators can move it to StackOverflow. Where should I be looking to make an accessible web site nowadays? I remember 10 years ago there was the WAI Initiative. Is that still documenting best practices and issuing recommendation towards making an accessible website? I mean I know they do have an updated website but is someone still considering their recommendation meaningful or has some other standard emerged out of the real world practices? Or is accessibility nowadays about writing valid and semantically meaningful markup/css and applying micro-formats the way Wordpress does it?


SEO: Full Redirect from Subdomain to Root Domain

I recently setup a staging site on our server's subdomain. Somehow Google managed to crawl the pages. Now we are ready to transfer the files to the main domain and delete the files on the subdomain. This is a big problem for our SEO which will make the pages on the root domain appear to be duplicates of the indexed pages on the subdomain. All paths on the subdomain is exactly the same with ones on the root domain, only the host part is different. Here are some of the many different path structures of the site:               http://beta.mysite.com/ --> http://www.mysite.com     http://beta.mysite.com/index.php?class=xxx&func=xxxx --> http://wwww.mysite.com/index.php?class=xxx&func=xxxx     http://beta.mysite.com/class/xxx/func/xxx --> http://www.mysite.com/class/xxx/func/xxx     http://beta.mysite.com/seo-text-here-class-xxx-func-xxx --> http://www.mysite.com/seo-text-here-class-xxx-func-xxx     http://beta.mysite.com/xxx-xxx.html --> http://www.mysite.com/xxx-xxx.html      As you can see only the host part changed, everything else remains as it is. QUESTION: Is it possible to redirect requests on the subdomain to do a SEO friendly redirect to the actual files on the root domain without having to explicitly write each rule for different path structures? NOTE: The redirection should be transparent to users which means they should see that the page actually redirects to the main site.


Best location for a websites CMS

As part of my job I recently started making numerous content management systems for websites. So many that obviously my next step was to set up a 'template' for the websites so I could quickly remove or add elements to suit the clients needs. Basically I chose Code Igniter, and now am ready to plug it in to a front end. In the past I placed websites CMSs in a sub-directory of that site, so mysite.com/cms for example. That was using 'spaghetti' PHP however. Using a framework such as CI or any MVC structure, is it better to host it in a subdomain, keep the front end and the back-end in the same application, or to split them on separate domains? Or does it really not matter?


Is it possible to create a "all keywords in adgroup must contain X"?

I run a Google AdWords campaign with (amongst others) the following AdGroups:               Accounting     Accounting non profits      in each group I have a bunch of keywords. I use broad match with a + before it. Like:               +accountingsoftware     +accountingsoftware non profit      I have the problem that sometimes phrases that should be matched by the first AdGroup get's matched by the second AdGroup. For example the phrase `simple accounting software` was matched by the AdGroup `accounting non profits`. I know there are negative keywords, but I would like something like a list of positive keywords. I would like to make it so that unless the word "non profit" or "NGO" etc are in the search phrase, the ads never show up. Is this possible?


making www.foo.com go to srv5.bar.net/~foo

What I need accomplished is when a person out there in internet-land types in www.foo.com they are actually getting served content from srv5.bar.net/~foo I have root access to both the nameserver ( bind9 ) and the webserver ( apache2 ). ( Yes, I do indeed use sudo rather than running as root ) I already know how to enable the UserDir module to make /home/foo/public_html into srv5.bar.net/~foo which is exactly what I want. I can also config the A name in dns so that foo.com is by bar.net I don't know how to make the connection of www.foo.com -> srv5.bar.net/~foo/ I don't even know what this is called to be honest. I don't want to use what I understand to be a cloak that simply puts what I want inside a frame that fills the window. Just in case it's required, I'm on debian.


Can I tell which users are downloading files with SMF or PHPBB forum software?

I want to create a forum where I will have attachments available for download to registered users. I'd like to be able to see which registered users have downloaded which files. Is there a way to do that using SMF or PHPBB? I don't need to have 100% accuracy, as I imagine there are probably sneaky ways of masking your download, but this will be on a forum that is not really attracting people that would be using those methods-IE these are totally legit files that people will be downloading in a business setting. PS: The files will live on my server, so I suppose it's possible to add a second layer where a user has to enter a password, but I prefer to just have the files as attachments on the forum. Thanks for any help!


How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?

I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named `/view.php?id=1234` and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a `301 Moved Permanently` redirection of each one of them to `/view/name-of-the-page-1234/` was created. This was about 5 years ago, and everything went fine. But recently thousands of pages have been reappering in Google with the old `view.php` URL! So I have about 20,000 results in common between the redirected and the unredirected URLs, which I am guessing will be sooner or later penalized for duplicated content. I have been told about disallowing `view.php` in `robots.txt`, but I think that wouldn't be a good idea since Google would stop crawling redirections completely. How could I stop this duplicate content from appearing in searches and avoid being penalized?


Are domain hacks advisable? and how do they affect SEO?

I'm interested in creating a domain hack, using the .es ccTLD. If the website does not target Spain, is this advisable? I've seen URL shortening services use ccTLDs to provide shorter URLs, however their main website (i.e. bit.ly as bitly.com), uses a standard .com TLD. If I do use an .es ccTLD to pluralize an English word for an English website (i.e. branch.es), would this hurt SEO? I don't want search engines (or people, for that matter) to think the website is in Spanish, and to only serve to those who speak Spanish instead of those who speak English. Any insight you may have would be helpful. Thanks for your time and help! ~Dustin Tigner


cheap paid mail forwarding service for 200-300 accounts

I am looking for a service which can easily forward up to 200-300 email accounts. I am ok with paying a nominal fee . I don't want to manage yet another mail server. I looked into mailroute, but its 500 US$ per month for my use case (way too expensive) Cheap would be 10$ per hundred users. Perhaps with unlimited forwarding of email.


How do I setup a subdomain in godaddy.com and point to another server?

When I create a subdomain in godaddy.com the only option is to forward that subdomain, and I don't want to forward it, I want it to point to another server. I don't want the main site or the email accounts to be disrupted either. Currently I have a main site: walkerseo.com and a subdomain: demo.walkerseo.com that is working fine. demo.walkerseo.com is hosted on a static site and walkerseo.com is a website that is hosted within a CMS. The static hosting people keep pointing to godaddy.com and godaddy.com tells me I have to setup the subdomain at the static hosting place. I am frustrated and confused and need to get some subdomains setup. Any help is appreciated.


AdSense CPM and content topics

I run a few blogs on topics like programming, linux tips and network security. I noticed the following:   1. Till last year had only 1 blog that had posts on PHP, linux tips, network security etc. The AdSense RPM was around 1.00.   2. Then I split the content into 3 separate blogs, one focused on web development/PHP/MySQL. second one focused on Linux/Windows how-tos and tips and third one focused on network security and related network topics. The Adsense RPM rose significantly for 2 blogs, and was 1.38 (PHP blog), 0.87 (tech tips blog) and 1.90 (network security blog). In the month of april 2013 the site on network security had the highest traffic and the Adsense income of that site was twice that of all three sites combined previously. My question is simple, does focusing on one topic lead to higher CPC/CPM?


Featured Links/Blogroll (irrelevant links) in a blog is good or bad for SEO?

While I’m checking my websites’ back links using backlink watch tool I saw so many backlinks are from Blogspots where my links are placed under the category featured Links. The main problem is my web site is related to boxing but that blog is related to software and viruses. I don’t know whether this backlinks are good or bad in SEO point of view. If I remove those links my backlink will reduce. Will my web sites PR decreases if I remove those backlinks?


One-user databaseless CMS authentication

**Background:** My client needs a **_one-user_** bare-bones content management system, which should be capable to   * Edit text-content in plain-text or in WYSIWYG-style   * Possibly create new subpages   * Update image gallery, ie. upload files   * Delete previously uploaded files No need for commenting or such interaction. Requirements:   * PHP   * JavaScript   * _**No database_** Currently I'm planning to code it from scratch, since the functionalities are somewhat basic. What is the best available authentication method for this lone content admin? Options that came to my mind first:   1. .htaccess & .htpasswd based solution   2. hard-coded, salted, encrypted PHP password with sessions. While option 2 is definitely more elegant, I wish the option 1 would suffice. The username & password combo would be located outside the public_html / www -folder structure. * * * **Real question:** Is .htaccess & .htpasswd authentication sufficient? Is it adequate security-wise? What are the possible pitfalls? (Okay, logout is one rather major pitfall, since it's practically impossible to implement due to stateless HTTP/1.1 specification...) **Bonus question 1:** What are the other good options that I didn't think of? Out of the box ideas are always welcome. Email-editing? Why not :-) **Bonus question 2:** Are there similar databaseless CMSes readily available? Please bear in mind there is no need for more users nor user-management. I'm not asking programming tips but rather concepts how it could be done. * * * **The RFC 2617, which I found through Piers' link below, answers the most of my _real question_**


Switching from Squarespace to hosted WordPress site w/ domain at GoDaddy and email through Google Apps?

I have a website client that has their domain with GoDaddy, website with Squarespace, and is using Google Apps for their domain's email. We are building a new WordPress based website and will launch that soon on a recently purchased hosting plan (standard cPanel based service) while keeping Google Apps for email. I believe that in their GoDaddy DNS editing area, we just need to do the following steps, could someone with knowledge of this confirm?   1. change A record with the heading of Host and value of @ to the IP of the new hosting account?   2. also change the nameservers to the values of the new host?   3. all the MX records stay the same and the CName records stay the same? Thank you very much for the help. I'll attach a screenshot of the GoDaddy DNS editing area for reference, with some info crossed out. ![GoDaddy screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EEx2P.jpg)


Where does one find syntax descriptions for IIS URL Rewrite condition input variables?

The need to understand what the variable represents and also perhaps examples of what it contains would be helpful. I've seen such postings for URL Rewrite of Apache in the documentation, but nothing official for IIS that I can see. I'm trying to understand what all these mean: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wdgGZ.jpg)


How should I format my HTML emails

I am just starting to send HTML emails. I read that I need to include `<head>` and `<body>` tags in my HTML emails. Are there other tags, meta tags, or other things that need to be included too? I'm considering using an HTML5 boilerplate, but I'm not sure that would contain all of the standard web tags required.


Guestbook Dead or Alive?

today i remembered one of my sites from 1999. It was on of my first. In those days it was the state of the art to use a guestbook? I never used one since then again. Are there any webmaster/designer/devs who still use this relic from the old days?


Google 404 errors on webmaster page

I have a lot of 404 errors on my webmaster's page. I don't know how google ended up on those urls. I checked my site many times to see if any links to those pages appear, but found nowhere. Is google trying out new urls on its own depending on the url structure?. Will these 404 errors result in bad outcome to my seo.


How to get rid of spam that sends from clients own email address?

I've Googled everywhere for a solution for this, but though the same issue appears to be happening to a lot of people, I havent found anything that helped. Several of my clients are receiving loads of spam emails with the senders email being their own. The emails subject line is: > Environmental corporation searching for representatives worldwide. The emails are not being sent from any scripts in the sites and all the code appears clean. I have also updated the sites CMS. Would anyone know how to get round this issue? Any help is appreciated!


Republishing blog posts on a popular website

I started my blog about programming yesterday and in order to promote and increase traffic I submitted my rss to Codeproject which pulls my posts and publishes them at Codeproject. While it increases the number of people reading my posts (but they are reading it at codeproject) I am worried that Google will penalize my site for duplicate content (Especially considering that Codeproject has much more reputation compared to my new website). The post at Codeproject has a link back to my blog post but it does not have "rel=canonical". So my question which one is better: a link from a high reputation website and some traffic or should I remove it from codeproject so that my blog is not penalized? What if codeproject adds "rel=canonical" to the link?


I would like permanently redirect page within website

I have couple hundred dynamic pages within the website, that I think to eliminate. They are indexed by search engine. I'm thinking to make permanent redirect to the home page of the website.               Example:          Dynamic page          http://www.domainname.com/dynamic_name.html               Home page               http://www.domainname.com/default.aspx      The home page has Google page rank 5. the dynamic pages has rank 0. If I do a redirect will it effect home page rank? What will be the best way to eliminate dynamic pages?


Reponsive Web Design : Does it download the same amount of data on every device?

I want to redesign my blog and website on wordpress to accommodate ever increasing mobile users and tablet users. I am also hearing about responsive design. I want to know does a responsive web design download the same amount of data on a computer screen as well a mobile device? I have also seen many big marketing firms have not invested in responsive web design and are still going for a separate website optimized for mobile. So what should I go for, a responsive web design or a separate website optimized for mobile?


Links in natural text VS plain list format

Our home page features links to our 4 main sub pages (it's really more, but I'll use 4 as an example). It's currently just a list of links in the content body: >   * Custom websites designed for desktop, tablets, and mobile phones >   * Domain Name Registration >   * Website Hosting >   * Ecommerce Solutions > Disregarding user experience for better or worse and focusing on SEO only, I considered working the links into a paragraph in a more organic way: > We create custom websites designed for desktop, tablets, and mobile phones. > We take care of everything from domain name registration, website hosting, > ecommerce solutions and more! My assumption is that the paragraph form is preferred because it is more natural and reads better. From an SEO perspective, is there much of a difference?


Which private PHP proxy?

I'm looking for a private PHP proxy to put it on my hosting. I see there is lots of them so I'm wondering if I could get a recommendation on which ones are the best? Or something like "this one is better then the rest because of: ..."?


Removing Memcache and Memcached from a Centos server

A while back I started looking into caching, (I think) I mistakenly installed both Memcache and Memcached. If I cd / then I have both:               memcache/memcache-3.0.6     memcached/memcached-1.4.10      ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/m4ri8.png) How should I go about removing these completely from the server? I'm using Centos if that helps?


Mod rewrite rule question/help

I have the following ruleset in my .htaccess file which basically rewrites my php pages and makes them appear as subfolders, so for example, `http://www.mysite.co.uk/about-me/` points to `http://www.mysite.co.uk/about.php`:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.co.uk$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1 [R=301,NC,L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$          RewriteRule ^index.php$ /welcome-to-my-website/ [L,R=301,NC]     ReWriteRule ^welcome-to-my-website/$ index.php [NC,L]     ReWriteRule ^about-me/$ about.php [NC,L]     ReWriteRule ^my-portfolio/$ portfolio.php [NC,L]     ReWriteRule ^contact-us/$ contact.php [NC,L]      What I want to do is to automatically forward/redirect the root - http://www.mysite.co.uk/ - and the index.php page straight to /welcome-to-my- website/ via htaccess so that there is no duplicate content. Any idea how one may achieve this?


Should I create topics in a forum I'm about to launch so that new users won't feel it is "empty"?

I'm about to launch a discussion forum about Taiwan. I'm really trying to figure out how to deal with the first visitors. I've thought about the following so far:   1. Invite few friends to start some discussions and give some replies.   2. Create discussions myself and reply them myself (with another account). I don't want the first visitors to feel like the site is empty. Maybe I'm missing something. Any suggestions?


Why do we have to pay for a domain name?

The question may sound stupid but I find it very difficult to understand that why do we have to pay for a domain name if the web is free? And who do I pay? Why do I have to pay for a domain name?


google analytics numbers

My google analytic numbers change downward randomly. Where once a particular page/post or even day will show 4000 visits, when I go back later in the day, the same variable is reduced to 1500 or something. Even my total numbers change downward. I'll look at the total page views for the month in the morning and then in again in afternoon and the second time they will always show several thousand fewer - what's going on?