How does Facebook saves images to my HDD

How Facebook downloads images, when you click "Download" near the picture? I see, that they are passing some argument:               _n.jpg?dl=1      ,but how it is managed 'behind the scenes'?


Guidance on building an au pair-to-family networking site

I'm building a website for an au pair agency business that will connect au pairs to families around Europe. I know nothing about website building, HTML etc. so I'm using a wysiwyg editer (weebly). How I would like the site to function:   * Families upload their information into profiles   * Au pairs do the same   * families can view a limited part of an au pairs' profile until they pay a deposit   * After deposit is payed, all au pairs' profile information becomes open to families   * Families can order au pairs and confirm their order with another payment   * payment must be made before 'order' is confirmed   * By 'order' I mean full communications become open between the family and the au pair they have 'ordered' as well as travel information being sent to another agency   * the site needs to be linked with a bank account (e.g paypal) and another agency, who will look after the flight bookings etc. A website already exists for this business however it just contains information on the business and application forms - if the site becomes fully automated it will relieve a lot of strain on administration in the office (dealing with applications, travel information etc.)


Learning PHP Framework for ecommerce site

Are there any books that can teach a good/useful PHP framework to build an ecommerce site? Please recommend.


Can't reach site from Firefox and Chrome but works fine using Safari

I've got a virtual server running Ubuntu which I recently set up. As I was trying to learn how to deal with vhosts and serveraliases I made a few errors before I finally managed to get the vhost files in sites-enabled and sites- available working. I kept testing my websites in Firefox (and Chrome I guess) during my various vhost tryout debacles and now when I got everything right I can't reach one of the sites from Firefox and Chrome but in Safari everything seems ok. It's working fine in all browsers if I'm not putting "www" in front of the domain name, the problem only appears when typing "www.example.com" in the address field instead of just "example.com". Also, "dig www.example.com" displays the correct IP. I've tried to clear DNS caches in Firefox and Chrome but with no luck, here's what I did in Firefox: http://www.kahunaburger.com/2009/03/18/clear-dns-cache- in-firefox/ And for Chrome I found "chrome://net-internals/#dns" and clicked the clear DNS button. I also tried to clear my client computer's (Macbook Air running Snow Leopard) DNS cache by running: "sudo dscacheutil -flushcache" No luck. If anyone has any suggestions whatsoever please reply, thanks!


Realtime HTTP notifications using Google Analytics when user views my page?

_(I copied this question fromstackoverflow.com, maybe someone here has the answer?)_ I was wondering if its possible with Google Analytics to send real-time HTTP notifications to say PHP when a user visits my website. If not, I am curious about any real-time notifications that Google Analytics can send to me when a user visits my site. Thanks!


Difficult Client wants me to deliver project before payment

I am currently working on a project for a construction company. The payment due for the final milestone is coming up and completes the entire transaction. The contract states that the entire project will be delivered after payment. **Note:** The client is essentially a middle man connecting me with the construction company and signed a contract with them, as well as with me. He wants me to deliver the entire completed project to their server (which is supposed to happen after the final payment is made) and he is willing to write me a check for 50% the amount of milestone 2 (which is the final milestone) prior to the delivery to the server. He is claiming that he will pay me the rest after the construction company pays him. However, this worries me. Because Once I deliver the work for the second and final milestone, I have no control over anything, and all my work is on their server and I cannot do anything about that. I should note that after paying the 50% of the final milestone cost, about 80% of the total project cost would have been paid in full. Should I trust him and allow this? Should I refuse as this is too risky? I am kind of uneasy because my rates are extremely reasonable and way below average (below $20/hr). He owns a company, the construction company he is working is pretty big and I am just graduated college a year ago. I shouldn't be the one compromising in my opinion. However, I would like to maintain a good relationship with the client and not sure how I should proceed in this case, as this is one of my first freelance projects. He is asking me to do this for him "as a friend". I appreciate any suggestions. Many thanks in advance!


Organizing website files

I want to start creating my website but I have a few questions.   * `http://website.com/directory/webpage` - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to achieve this?    * if I have several pages like contact.html, aboutme.html etc Should I just create separate html files, or should I do something in one main index.php file and use PHP or JavaScript to handle the content according to the URL. Which is a more appropriate workflow?


When is progressive video preferable to streaming?

Streaming only transfers the portion of the video you are about to view so there is drastically less bandwidth used, however, YouTube has opted to use progressive video instead. Why does YouTube use progressive video instead of streaming? (Obviously conserving bandwidth is not their top priority)


backup of AWS s3

We had been backing up all of our databases and image files to S3. Around 2TBs of data. But now we are migrating our hosting to amazon and I think we need another backup now, not on amazon. Is this correct? If so any recommendations? preferably an affordable, easy solution.


Website SEO should i use - or |?

I was wondering if I should use (for SEO purposes), either:               product_name - product_category | website_name      Example:               UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer | HellGates      **OR**               product_name - product_category - website_name      Example:               UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer - HellGates


My website is Google shielding, help me thankyou

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Users often say my website is infected, but can't find any evidence of > this? This is my website is google shielding。In firefox to show in the web site has the virus, but in other browsers without this kind of situation。


Yahoo search engine not able to index Ajax content?

Does Yahoo support crawlable Ajax? I'm about solution provided by Google (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling). How to make my Ajax content crawlable by Yahoo search engine?


Google Analytics payment gateways are tracking referrals

Google Analytics is tracking my payment gateway conversion as a referral. This is because we take the user to the payment gateway, eg PayPal, but bring them back to the site for the order confirmation page. With all the sites we work on this hasn't happened before so very confused. So we get, as conversions, ipg-online.com / referral and paypal.com / referral within our analytics. Any ideas?


Google Analytics - Referring Sites by Goal, is it accurate?

**Preface:** I'm taking a look at the Google Analytics we have for our product's website and we have a bunch of goals setup for each specific type of account we have on the website. **Question:** When looking at the Traffic Sources > Referring Sites page, and then looking at it by Goals, it gives me a set of percentages for each goal by referring site. However, it seems like the only things that have conversions are our internal pages, our blog, and Google. I guess my question is: if a user shows up from another website, and then clicks around before signing up, will they be counted?


How to use IP address in the search content source?

I have configured the alternate access for my Sharepoint site using the server IP address. I need to use the server path as IP address in the search content source (`http://10.104.55.333:100`) instead (`http://server:100`). What configuration changes do I need to do? I tried to use the IP address in the content source but it gives the error.


How to set up a Goal Funnel with new Google Analytics. i.e. Universal Analytics?

I just signed up for Google Analytics after watching some YouTube videos but the Google Analytics site looks totally different. Nonetheless, I was able to set up Goals but how do you set up Funnels for them? That option just isn't there anymore....


What are the most popular web statistic scripts?

What are the **popular** web statistic scripts/web log analyzers? I'm searching for popular web statistic scripts like wusage, WebStat or WebAlizer.


.htaccess URL rewrite

I used to have a rewrite rule to               RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.htm$ index.php?c=$1 [NC]     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.htm/([0-9.]+)$ index.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC]      Now, I have to change to               RewriteRule ^1/([^/]+)\.htm$ index.php?c=$1 [NC]     RewriteRule ^1/([^/]+)\.htm/([0-9.]+)$ index.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC]     RewriteRule ^2/([^/]+)\.htm$ index2.php?c=$1 [NC]     RewriteRule ^2/([^/]+)\.htm/([0-9.]+)$ index2.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC]      The difference is adding a sub-directory. My question is, how can I redirect my old links to the new `1/` sub-directory?


Should I map third party blog as a subdomain?

I am wondering if I should map my blog to my domain as a subdomain or just leave it completely separate on the third party site? I am primarily concerned with SEO and the ease of transitioning between content on my domain and on my blog. I know there will be a slight disconnect between my domain and a potential mapped subdomain but if it benefits my domain it shouldn't be an issue. Also do backlinks get credited to my domain or subdomain or are they considered one and the same once they are mapped together? And can I create backlinks from the third party site even though it is mapped as a subdomain on my cash for gold domain?


Multiple site pages not accesible via main site nav- SEO implications?

I run a site that has some of the site pages accessible through the site's main navigation. Then, there are 50+ "state" pages that are accessible to a user if they click on a specific state on a flash map on our home page. What are the SEO implications of having the site set up so that a significant portion of the pages are not accessible via the main navigation of the site? I know that Google has indexed these "state" pages previously, as they will pull up in organic rankings occasionally. But, would they rank significantly better if we organized the site differently?


Is ICANN planning any changes to domain registration soon?

The BBC is reporting that domain registration will be changing next year. > The .co landgrab could be one of the last before ICANN overhauls the way net > addresses are assigned. > > Next year the body is due to open up the system so that companies and > individuals can register any name they want. I haven't heard anything about a change—is the BBC correct, and if so, what are the details?


Directory access control with Apache: do I need to use a specific .htaccess?

I have an Apache webserver, and in the Apache configuration, I have               Alias /backups "/backups"     <Directory "/backups">         AllowOverride None         Options Indexes         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>      I can access files via `http://127.0.0.1/backups`. The problem is everyone can access that. I have a web interface, e.g. `http://localhost/admin`m that is protected with htaccess and password. Now I don't want separate `.htaccess` and `.htpasswd` for `/backups`, and I don't want a second password prompt when a user clicks on `/backups` in the web interface. Is there any way to use same `.htaccess` and `.htpasswd` for the backups directory?


Mac font on website on PC

I like how fonts look on a Mac. Is it possible to render something similar in a website and have it work on all operating systems and browsers? I'm aware of font-face but I can't seem to find a clean font. Ideally I want Arial but more smooth.


Strange robots.txt - how and why did it get there?

I recently created a very simple, pure HTML website which I have hosted with "hostmonster". Hostmonster had very good reviews on some comparison website and in general so far they appear to be perfectly good in every way... At least I thought so until just now... I have been making lots of edits to my site on an almost daily basis. My site now appears on the first page (7th on the list) for my most important keyphrase when doing a google search. But I did notice some problem with the snippet chosen by google. I asked a question on this site about snippets and got some great answers. I then made some modifications to my meta data and within 48hrs the google snippet for my search was perfect. The odd thing though was that looking at the "cached" version google had, it appeared that the cache was still very old- like three weeks previous. This seemed very odd - how could it be that the google robots had read my new metadata without updating the cache? This puzzled me greatly. Just now it occurred to me that maybe I had some goofey setting in my robots.txt file. I didn't actually remember even making one - but I thought I'd have a look just in case. Much to my horror, I saw that there was a robots.txt and it contained the disturbing text below:               sitemap: http://cdn.attracta.com/sitemap/728687.xml.gz      Intuitively this looks like some kind of junk, spam trick, and I had indeed been getting some spam from "attracta". So my questions are: 1. Should I simply delete this robots.txt? 2. Was the file there all along - placed there because of some commercial tie-in between attracta and hostmonster. 3. Does the attracta robots file explain the lack of re-caching?


Google: What does a return to PR 'Unranked' mean?

One of my sites is very new (about 3 months). When first launched its pages had (unsurprisingly) a Google PR of 'Unranked' [From Google toolbar stats, via the firefox SearchStatus plugin]. After a few weeks these changed to PR0. Just recently I noticed that they are showing PR 'Unranked' once more in Google Toolbar. As far as I know I'm following the Google guidelines. Results for the site still seem to be showing for its keywords. **What could this mean?**


SEOs: mobile version using AJAX: how to be properly read by crawlers?

Before anything else, I'd like to emphasize that I've already read this and this. Here's what I can do: First choice:   * create classical web version with all products in that page - `http://www.myweb.com`.   * create mobile web version with all products in the page and use jQuery Mobile to format all nicely but this may be long to (load + format), and may provide bad user experience - `http://m.myweb.com`. Second choice:   * create classical web version with all products in that page   * create mobile web version with almost nothing but a Web page showing _wait_ , then download all products in the page using AJAX and use jQuery Mobile to format all nicely. Showing a _wait, loading_ message gives far more time to do whatever I want and may provide _better_ user experience - `http://m.myweb.com`. Question: if I choose the second solution, Google won't read anything on the mobile version (because all products will be downloaded in the page using AJAX), so it wont be properly read by crawlers. What / how shall I do?


Is there a way to return a response every x seconds or so to a single http request?

I'm wondering if it's possible to send a response every second or so to a single http request. Like for example the client makes an http request, then the server sends a space character every second. This could be never ending or with a limit, for example a minute. I think the word 'response' is misleading in this context, since I don't necessarily mean an http response. The whole http response could be composed of the space characters, which would mean a single http response to a single http request, except that it is a minute long. I tried chunked encoding but I don't think it works, or at least my implementation's wrong.


Pointing domain to VPS webserver

I am hosting a webserver using IIS on my VPS and I have a domain through godaddy, how would I go about forward my domain to the webserver without mirroring the site using A records.


My old webhost has gone out of business. How can I recover the text of my website?

I found my website in the Wayback Machine a few months ago. My old webhost stopped paying for their servers back in August without any notice. I was going to do a backup the day it happened. **Is there a way just to find the text of my website?** I have the old IP, images, but nothing else. None of the big search engines have caches anymore, and I already looked in the cache of three of my Macs with nothing to be found. I tried looking for my website in the Wayback Machine again today, but I got a strange error: it tells me it can't find robots.txt.


Port forward based on external IP (for VPS hosting)

What I want to do is to host a VPS. First, I'd like to set up a static IP address that forwards to my home IP address (so I can have more than one IP coming into my house).   1. How can I do this without contacting my ISP (and is it even possible?; I don't care about paying for something that does this).   2. Once I have the extra external IP address, how can I forward it to my VPS? How is my router supposed to differentiate between two separate external IP addresses?


Moving a WordPress installation from a subdomain to its own domain without losing PageRank

I'd like to move a WP installation from a subdomain to its own without losing the PageRank achieved by that subdomain. What are the best steps in order to do this properly? Especially how do I set the redirects properly?


RewriteRule was matching before migration, but now browser gets a 404 error

I have this URL rewrite rule in my .htaccess               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^home$ home.php      but when I try to reach awatag.com/home I get a 404 error. This rule worked perfectly before moving the domain to GoDaddy.


(Joomla 1.6) Template position descriptions don't refresh

I want to change a description of a template position, so when I go to Admin->Extensions->Module Manager I see a different description of a module position in the position list when I edit a module. However, when I change (for instance) the template 'beez_20' and want to rename the name of the position 'debug', I change the description (TPL_BEEZ_20_POSITION_DEBUG) in the language file 'languages\en-GB\en- GB.tpl_beez_20.sys.ini' to something different, say 'Abracadabra'. However, the changes don't appear in the position list and I can find no reference whatsoever of how or when the ini files are read or maybe cached. Does anyone has a clue?


mod_rewrite change . to -

I'm moving my site and the URL structure has changed because of the new CMS. The urls would be similar to `/my.products.htm` on the new site we are changing the URLs to this `/my-products` is their a way to redirect all of the products to this new URL scheme using Mod_rewrite 301 redirect? Or is their another method I could use? The old site ran PHP the new one runs on Netsuite if that helps.


How to use apache mod-rewrite to remove trailing semi-colon on cookie?

We have the following cookie set by a product:               Set-Cookie: SSOCookie=T7ngsCmzC2FEq5p2a7o%3D; path=/; domain=.demo.com;      We would like to use Apache to remove the trailing `;` which doesn't match the Cookie specification. Can we use mod_rewrite? How? We are using Apache/2.0.47.


Is there a way I can test which one of my VPS's is better?

Is there any profile tool to tell which VPS I own is better? I have a VPS from rubyringtech & a VPS from burstNET. Both are CentOS 5.6 one is a intel i7 2600 & the other is a Xeon. Is there any unix software I can use to test to see which one performs better?


Mentioning celebrities as customers

My client owns a dry cleaning business. He serves people who stay at certain hotels in NYC. Some celebrities have been his customers while staying at those hotels. He would pick up and deliver their clothes for dry cleaning, sometimes hand-to-hand. Can he mention that fact and their names on his business website to advertise his services?


Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w/o the anchor?

Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor, e.g. /mypage.html#section1 Does Google give this link equal weight as a link to /mypage.html?


state of art paradigm? 1 website for browser and mobile or 2 different websites

I would like to know what the standard aproach for mediumsized websites is, if you want to have users with browser and mobile. Make 1 Website with a lot of if-else because of browser/mobile or make 2 seperated websites? When do u make 1 website for browser/mobile and when do u make 2 different websites?


Does the <h1> tag get more SEO value if there is no usable keyword in the URL?

I'm looking at a site for which the domain name and URL do not impart any meaningful data to a search engine. It does have:   * `<h1>` (eBook name)   * `<h2>` (author - cannot be changed)    * `<p>` (description) Do the `<h1>` and `<p>` elements provide SEO value? Those are the only elements in that page that really provide any relevant information to search engines. I see other sites that use keywords in their URL. In theory, can the `<h1>` element be compared to a domain name in terms of SEO value?


How to use Google Web Fonts "text" parameter on Blogger?

Google introduced the new parameter "text" to the Google Web Fonts API, where you can choose which letters will come from your request (for when you only need few letters for the logo) The introdution of the new parameter is explained here But if I insert this Blogger Template:               <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Over+the+Rainbow:regular&text=PulaAe' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>      I get this error:               The reference to entity "text" must end with the ';' delimiter.      Someone knows how is the right way to use this new parameter within Blogger?


Would phpBB break if I move it from one folder to another? Can I use mod_rewrite to redirect requests for that forum from old folder to new one?

Please note that I have installed dynamic web pages (PHP) in the directory *public_html/old/* in order to create the web site _www.example.com_. Actually I have created a PHPBB forum and thus the URL of a topic is: `http:// www.example.com/old/viewtopic.php` or the URL of the index file is: `http:// www.example.com/old/index.php` What I would like to do is to change the name of directory “old” to “new”. I have been consulted that it can be done by editing the file _.htaccess_ that exists in the directory *public_html* and write inside:               Redirect permanent /old http://example.com/new      Could you please let me know if is this correct or should I write www.example.com instead of example.com. Moreover could you please let me know whether this effects any aspect of my web site? In addition I have been informed that if I change the name of the directory then it may break my web site (since I will have changed the path or location of the script) unless I configure it to work correctly. Could you please let me know what should the configurations be?


How to debug this site in IE9?

Just finished this site: http://brodr-haukaas.no And to my horror it doesn't work properly in IE. Something is breaking my slider script, and I don't have much experience in debugging JS code using any of the browser debuggers. I need to use the IE9 debugging tool, but how would I do the break points? Where should I start? It would be great if someone could point me to some good resources with examples to go from. _Not sure if this belongs under Wordpress, programming or here. But I feel it's a fairly general web debug question._


Uses of LINK tag

The `<link>` tag appears to have many uses aside from stylesheets. For example the W3 suggest using it for previous/next/index pages. I know that Opera also has a Navigation toolbar that will show links when present, including Home, Index, Contents, Previous, Next, Copyright, Author and more. (I doubt it is actually used by more than a handful of people.) Are there any other attributes that are useful, or other uses for the ones above? What about SEO benefit?


How to reuse font families in CSS for quicker CSS loading

Let's say I use different fonts on my page, let's say I use 3 different fonts in 10-20 different CSS rules and in each of them I must use the following and similar:               font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;      There must be some shortcut way to have these font families listed in CSS once and CSS rules could only have some way to "point" to which font family to use without the need of writing such long lines every time. How can this be done?


How to use Node.Js in place of MySQL

I want to know if it's possible to use Node.js in place of MySQL.


Domain name expired and sold to New Venture Services

My domain name expired and although I was working with my Network Solutions to update my information somehow they let my name go and it was picked up by NVS Corp. At this point I can not get any information from anyone as to how I can purchase it back. My question is I spent thousands of dollars on the actual web site...so where is the web site now?


Can too many 301 redirects cause a DNS error?

For a site http://imageocd.com that I just set up I initially spelled the category "automobiles" as "autimobiles"... I know it's rediculous. I then set up over 10,000 pages behind that category e.g. http://imageocd.com/automobiles/hillman-minx-cabrio-pictures-and-wallpapers. So, I set up over 10,000 301 url redirects to change the spelling on automobiles. I just checked my Google Webmasters report and got an error saying:               http://www.imageocd.com/: Googlebot can't access your siteSep 7, 2012     Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 2 errors while attempting to retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS queries for your site is 66.7%.      Could the overabundance of 301 redirects be causing this? I host 13 sites on this dedicated server and all sites are running fine. I also contacted GoDaddy and they said the server is running fine. Any ideas on what might be going on? Also, I have "canonical" set up for every URL. Could this be part of the error? Thanks.


Protecting design ideas from being copied by other websites?

I'm planning a project at the moment, while building a completely different project at the same time. Both of these projects are quite innovative in the way they either work or the way they are presented. One of the projects hasn't been done before, and the other is being made has competition, but I feel the competitions websites are light years behind what I'm doing. Is there a way for me to prevent the way my sites work or presented from being stolen? I've thought of patenting parts of them, but it requires £10,000 and I don't have that amount of money. Also, would me putting a Copyright notice on the site or an All Rights Reserved tag give me any muscle when going to websites that I feel have stolen my ideas (if they have)? Cheers!


Appropriate response when client empowered with CMS destroys content to his own will

So, I just recently closed a website project that pretty much was The Oatmeals' Design Hell, but with content. The client loved the site at the beginning but started getting other people involved and mercilessly bombarding us with their opinions. We served a carefully thought content strategy (which the client approved) and extremely curated copywriting that took us four months after at least 5 requirement changes (new content, new objectives for the business, changed offerings, new mindfaps, etc.) that required us to rewrite the content about 3 times. The client never gave timely feedback even though we kept the process open for him and his people to see (content being developed transparently in Google Docs). Near the end of the project he still wanted to make changes but wanted us to finish already (there are not enough words in the world to even try to make sense of this). So I explained to him the obvious implications of the never-ending requirement changes and advised him to take the time to gather his thoughts with his own team and see the new content introduced as a new content maintenance project. He happily accepted, but on the day of training/delivery things went very wrong and we have no idea why. The client didn't even allow the site to be out for a week with the content we developed for him and quickly replaced us with a Joomla savvy intern so that he completely destroy the content with shallow, unstructured, tasteless and plain wordsmithing (and I'm not even being visceral). Worst insult of all, he revoked our access from his server and the deployed CMS not even having passed 10 minutes of being given his administrator account (we realized the day after that he did it in our own office, the nerve!). Everybody involved in the team is enraged and insulted. I never want to see this happen again. So, to try to make sense of this situation and avoid it in the future with new clients I have two concrete questions:   * Is there even an appropriate course of action with a client like this?, or is he just not worth the trouble of analyzing (blindly hoping this never repeats again).   * In the exercise to try and blame ourselves instead of the client and take this as a lesson of... something, how should we set expectations for new clients about the working terms, process and final product so that they are discouraged from mauling the content to their own contempt once they get the codes to the nukes (access to the CMS)?


urlrewrite and search engines

I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like               mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle       into               ...page/mytitle/123/      I'm trying to understand what are the pros / cons if any of having it like               ...page/mytitle/123/       instead of               ...page/123/mytitle/      Does it make any difference for search engines and is there anything i'm doing wrong with this?


Why some AdChoices ads are showing AdRoll instead of Adsense

I know what AdRoll is, but I have visited one of the my favorite blog and click on the AdChoice overlay and it is showing AdRoll.   1. Is AdRoll operating a ads network? (I think it is no)   2. Is AdRoll buy the Adsense inventory on behalf of the user? Can they allowed to modify the AdChoice overlay?


How can I create (or do I even need to create) an alias of a DNS MX record?

I am in the process of moving my DNS records from Network Solutions to the Amazon Route 53 service. While I know and understand a little about the basic kinds of records, I am stumped on how to create the record that will point to the MX record on Network Solutions (if I'm even saying that right). On Network Solutions I have this:               Mail Servers (MX Records)            Note: Mail Servers are listed in rank order          myapp.net      Add Sub-Domain     MXMailServer(Preference)    TTL       inbound.myapp.net.netsolmail.net.(10)   7200    Network Solutions E-mail      I have read that the payload for an MX record state that it must point to an existing A record in the DNS. Yet in the example above, that `inbound.myapp...` record only has the words "Network Solutions E-mail" next to it. Our email is hosted at Network Solutions. I have already created the CNAME records that look like this:               mail.myapp.net  7200   mail.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net.     smtp.myapp.net  7100   smtp.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net.      Since I am only using Amazon as the DNS, do I even need to do anything with that MX record? I appreciate your help, I googled and researched this before I posted, this is my first post on webmasters although I've been on SO for a few years.


Disallow age gate/verification page in robots.txt?

Should I disallow the age gate page in robots.txt? I need to make sure the crawlers can get through the gate.


Block access to robots.txt file .htaccess

I read in this forum that this .htaccess code should block access to the robot.txt file:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(Slurp|surfsafely)     RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ /someotherfile [L]      But I just get a error 500: "Internal Server Error" What do I do wrong?


What is considered the optimal placement of a link to an RSS feed for SEO?

When do I want a search engine's spider to run across my RSS feed link?   * Before the heading (not saying header tag..)   * During the heading   * During the main content   * During the footer   * After the footer      * Completely irrelevant     * Other And why? As I understand it, it wont really matter much where the link/button _displays_ but where on the page it is written in the code.


Why did Google stop indexing pages from our sitemap.xml?

We're seeing some pages that exist in our `sitemap.xml` but are inexplicably missing from Google's public search index. You can't download http://superuser.com/sitemap.xml -- we protect this file because there have been issues with it in the past -- but googlebot can. We have verified via Google Webmaster Tools that the `sitemap.xml` file was pulled down today and is rated OK with no errors (green checkmark). ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sfas0.png) The `sitemap.xml` contains a list of the last 50,000 questions on our site that were asked. For example, this question ... http://superuser.com/questions/201610/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of- symbolic-links ... exists in the `sitemap.xml` as ...               <url>     <loc>http://superuser.com/questions/201610/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of-symbolic-links</loc>     <lastmod>2010-10-20</lastmod>     <changefreq>daily</changefreq>     <priority>0.2</priority>     </url>      Searching for "How to see the end of a long chain of symbolic links" gives only one result to questionhub.com which is scraping our data (a whole different problem). You can increment the question count number and do an exact search for the question title and you will see this pattern persist. These urls are _in_ sitemap.xml but they are not showing up in Google's index -- and yet they show up on sites that scrape our creative commons data. Why would that be?


. Rk domain registration

Anybody knows where I can get .rk domains? Looks like nowhere so far - any idea?


Paypal: Subscribe Buttons and Inventory

Paypal lets you create purchase buttons, and one option is to make the purchase actually trigger an autopay - they call it a Subscription/Subscribe button. They also let you enter inventory for a given item. If you enter 1 in Inventory for a Subscribe button, does Paypal: A) Treat that as 1 item in stock, and after 1 month the subscription will run out or B) Treat that as 1 Subscription in stock, and after one person purchases it, it will be out of stock (but the Subscription that 1 customer purchased goes on indefinitely) I assume B, but perhaps others have found otherwise.


How to change the zone file records for .io domain registered at nic.io?

I just registered a `.io` domain at `nic.io` and I want to make changes to the zone file to integrate it with Google Apps. I couldn't find an interface to change CNAME / MX records. Has anybody been able to figure out how to do this?


How to make image only website friendly to googlebot?

so I making this portfolio site for some artist. She draw all the menus and texts manually(on paper), then scanned, some "post processing" in photoshop and that's how the whole layout was created. Now the problem is all texts are actually images so bots can't read this. How to make this site more friendly to google bot so it can actually gather some data? Some ideas are:   * put text in alt, title tags (sometimes text is too long I guess)   * some additional texts in footer   * comments   * found this: How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines? good idea?   * also thought of normal text and than hiding it in javascript (googlebot doesn't execute js, does it?) Thanks for all answers P.S. I know it's bad idea, to create web page like this, I know about embed fonts but it's really specific case, so I hope you'll understand my problem:)


Can I combine subdomains in Google Analytics?

I have 2 separate domains in my Google Analytics: `abc.com` and `xyz.abc.com`. The second domain is 3rd party shopping cart. Right now the reporting for each is separate. I want to have them together so I can eventually set up goals and conversion tracking.


SEO impact of using <small> tag in <h1>

Twitter bootstrap uses `<small>` tag within `<h1>`. What is the SEO impact of this? Will the text content in the `<small>` tag get equal importance? Here is an example (see the _Lightweight defaults Same markup, different classes_ ):
Lightweight defaults Same markup, different classes


Upgrading Blog to WordPress, keep old one or redirect?

I have had a blog for around 4 years now that has gained some success and gets tons of residual and organic traffic. I am using an outdated version of BlogEngine.NET and we are going to switch to WordPress. Currently, our blog is at ourwebsite.com/blog, and I don't really want to mess with our web server. I setup a new server just for WordPress and instead of dealing with proxies and things that are above my head, the new blog will be at blog.oursite.com. I am trying to figure out the best way to go about doing this. We value our search engine rankings very much so, as that is where 90% of our traffic comes from. Would I be best off:   1. Importing all of the old blog posts from oursite.com/blog to blog.oursite.com and then redirecting all of the articles, categories, authors, pages and tags to the new blog and giving up the direct links to our current site.   2. Keeping all of our current articles as they are, and only add new content to the new blog.oursite.com and just kind of let the old blog float around our site.


Is it okay to showcase templates/layouts recreated in different codes in a portfolio?

I have several different templates/layouts, both simple and complex. I recreated these templates multiple times, just using different codes. (Say, a complex one was originally made in only HTML and CSS, I _recreated_ it using HTML, Javascript, CSS, then again with a HTML and PHP concoction, and etc.) I wanted to showcase my work and skills by doing this, but I don't know if it would be okay for that all to go into a resumé/portfolio. This is why:   * **Freelancing** Does potential business really care about how their site is made, as long as it looks and functions to their liking? (As in, should I just only show the one example of each template/layout and not the multiple recreations?)   * **Potential Hire** However, if a potential employer were to stumble across my resumé/portfolio, would having the multiple recreations do any good for a career outlook? (As in, this potential employer is a company where I could be working on a team to create/develop sites and not be freelancing; would a lack of skill-shining turn this employer away because I didn't set myself apart and show that I'm not just like every other budding web designer?) Those two issues have me wondering if it is okay to have a resumé/portfolio combined for this specific reason. Or does something like this not matter to potential business (as a freelancer) because they wouldn't care either way _as long as it looks and functions to their liking_ and therefore it is okay to showcase the recreations with the originals?


Spam link text when searching for company directors' name

It was brought to my attention that if you search for the name of one of our directors (with the intent to find there profile page on our site) They come up as the first link in most search engines as you would expect but the link text is just pure spam. the three search string I have tested on Google, Bing, Ask, and Yahoo have all returned similar results. Here is a list of the search strings: > Paolo rossi futex > > Mark rossi futex > > Marco rossi futex > > Dan Goldberg futex Any idea what might be causing this I have searched through as much of the sites code as I can and cant find anything wrong with it.


changing URL format afftects SEO reputation and not considering 301 redirection

We had URL `http://www.example.com/category/subcategory.html` which changed to `http://www.example.com/category/filter/cat/subcategory.html` We did `301 redirection`, updated `canonical URL` to new one also updated `sitemap` and also resubmitted to Google Webmaster Tool. But still reputation of old URL not shifted to new one. Old URL used come to first or second position for certain keywords but now I can't find old or new URL in any where in Google search. Why changing `URL` format affects `SEO` reputation and not considering 301 redirection? PS: We also changed `http://www.example.com/category.html` to `http://www.example.com/category-extra.html` and updated same as above. This seems working totally fine. No affect in position at all.


Remote desktop connection domain name SEO

I have a website that has a domain name such like `www.example.com` which is of course the website. Then there is `example.com` which is used by my boss for remote desktop connection. I was wondering if this will be a problem for SEO?


SSL certificate error only in Internet Explorer 8

My SSL certificate works on all modern browsers (IE 9+), but does not work on IE 8. With modern browsers, the SSL certificate for my domain is used, but IE 8 wants to use the SSL certificate for my PaaS, resulting in a domain mismatch. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rmdce.jpg) How do I fix this? Is this an issue with my PaaS?


Best way to deal with non existant page

I had on my website category pages. they were http://my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ but with the structure change of my site (it's rather new), I have no need for this http://my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ anymore. Now, google sees it as a crawl error. Obviously... How should I deal with it. I know I have to do a redirect 301 but the big question is... To where!


serious 404 problem, suggestions for hunting them all down

I have a bit of a situation coming up. Due to a complete website structure redesign that is basically inevitable, I expect to have the following:   * Our sitemap of about 12,000 url's have about 90-95% of them change   * Out of those 12,000, I expect around 5000-6000 internal links to go dead in the process.   * No external links to this site yet, as it is still in development. Is there a tool out there that can do the following:   * I can feed the sitemap.xml after the restructuring   * have it parse each pages links for 404 errors on that page   * only report the pages/errors, preferably with just the url it is on, the url of the error, and the anchor text I have found a few tools, but all of them seem to be limited to 100 pages. Any advice for an intermediate webmaster to help this situation? 301 redirects are not viable in this situation.


URL good practice for category sub category?

I have developed a application and I need to work for SEO-friendly URL. I have following URL structure:               http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2      and               http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2-4-23      Is this a good practice? If not how can I rewrite it? Ok Ill explain about my applicaiton. My application is based on shopping. if a customer searched for mobiles. it will redirect to url like this               http://mydomain.com/cat/mobile-3      3 in the url indicates my database id it is used for further searching After the user reached the mobile page he may need to filter for some brand eg. nokia so my url look lik               http://mydomain.com/subcat/nokia-3-2      The integer at the end refers to 3 category id and 2 the brand id My doubt is whether the integer at the end of the url will affect seo ranking.


Not my Rich Snippets

My client had discussed in depth SEO. It was put off, however. Recently though, a Google search of the site revealed rich snippets. This is not from work that I have done for the site. I had began to work on this for his site, but it was put off and never made it into the deployments. How could the site possibly have rich snippets. If it is not from me, where could it be coming from?


I own a domain and recently got a Trademark Infringement for it can I offer to sell it to them?

I own a domain related to an iPhone Game and have been sent a Trademark Infringement on said domain by the company. It makes me a few dollars a month but nothing great, And I would like to offer to sell the domain to them. Does anyone have any advice or tips on this?


Where is name="lc" defined as a meta tag?

I've noticed that ea.com includes a `<meta name="lc" content="en_us"/>` tag on their website which changes for each language/country (`<meta name="lc" content="en_gb"/>`, `<meta name="lc" content="es_mx"/>`, &c). I can't find any reference to `name="lc"` being a valid meta tag. I've seen `<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">` and `<html lang="en">`, but where did `name="lc"` come from?


How many variations of a term can be used before Google punishes your site?

I have a new client with a huge inventory of antique items. My client has each item named properly on the website, however, each item has many common variations of each name. Often times the most popular search term is not the proper (official) name. I had the thought of creating a page for each variant of the name, which would create a page that looked like                         <title>Product One Name A</title>
Product One Name A

Product One Name A blah, blah, blah

Product One Name A is also known as

Product One Name B

Product One Name C

Product One Name D

Product One Name E

Product One Name F

           I would then create the ProductOneNameB page, which would have the names changed a bit, but it would have the same description, structure and images. My hope is that I can rank high for each of the keywords. At the moment, the client is ranking high for the proper names, but not the variations. My question is, will Google consider this gaming the system, and punish me in the rankings?


Importance of Preferred Domain

Google Webmaster Tools allows to set preferred domain for a web site (with or without www). How important is it to set it in terms of SEO? Is there any difference which one I choose? Also, if I set a preferred domain should I issue a 301 redirect when someone visits the other domain? Thanks.


Clean URL using index files or mod_rewrite

Is it better to make clean URL's using index files in directories or simply using `mod_rewrite` rules to remove the file extensions?


What is the best way to promote a programming blog?

(The guys from 'Programmers' referred me here...) How do you promote your programming blog? I recently started http://blackforestcoder.blogspot.com/ to record my progress working with new technologies and ideas. The main aim being to provide a list of pitfalls and solutions and also to get feedback from readers. Since I set it up 10 days ago I have only had about 2-3 hits even though Google is supposed to be indexing it. How might I boost the hit rate?


Google Analytics vs Zopim stats are different

On my website I run Google Analytics and I also run Zopim. Zopim is providing very different figures than Google (more hits). Which one should I believe? Why would there be a difference?


Do or don't submit the comment-feed of your blog?

A commentsfeed (of a blog) might serve perfectly as a commentssitemap. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to submit this feed to Google's webmaster tools. What are the pros & cons?


Downsides for adapting a site to HTML5/CSS3?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use HTML5 and/or CSS3 to build my website? I've been wondering if there are any serious downsides for switching a websites code to HTML5/CSS3 now (browser support, browser distribution in the user community) ? Would it be a better idea to hold on a little longer ? Thanks in advance for your replies


DNS configuration to force root domain to www

we have an app running on heroku. the dns setup is like this: A record for domain.com -> heroku front end ip addresses CNAME for www.domain.com -> specific host name for our app provided by heroku we also have an SSL cert for www.domain.com. the issue is that if someone goes to https://domain.com/secure_stuff, they will get heroku's SSL cert, instead of ours, causing lots of fear. We can do things on our end to make sure that all of our URLs point to https://www.domain.com, but it still won't solve this specific issue. is there a way to configure the DNS record to redirect all root domain traffic to the www subdomain?


How to backorder a .io domain name

There is a .io domain name I want to buy when it becomes available in 12 months time. What is the best tool to buy this automatically?


What is the purpose of the appserv_root requests?

I see a lot of requests for nonexistent php files on my website. They tend to have a querystring like `appserv_root=http://www.example.com`, using domains with evil-looking php code. I am pretty confident that this is trying to make use of some php vulnerability or other. So, I am curious:   1. What vulnerability is this trying to make use of?   2. How does one protect against this vulnerability?   3. What in the site configuration would be changed if this vulnerability was successfully exploited?


What to do with database in dev/production phases of a website?

For a while now I've been keeping a website I'm developing in the standard dev/production phases. Its been pretty simple: Mercurial repo for dev, repo for production. Do work in dev, get approved, push to production. But now I'm trying to apply this process to a new website that has a database and am struggling on how to figure out a development strategy. What I didn't mention above is that I do all my work on my own repo, push it to dev, then later push it to production, so its 3 different servers. So how do I manage my database? The obvious solution of mysqldump every commit isn't going to happen, and a dump at the end of the day isn't all that helpful when you want to undo later one change that happened in the middle of the day. What is the best way to accomplish this?


Will it hurt my website's SEO friendliness if I host a french targetted website at, let's say, godaddy.com?

I have read that the server location is important for a website to be SEO friendly. I am planning to build a website from scratch which is targetted mainly to french audience (in france), but I am planning to host the web site at godaddy.com. My concern is will it hurt the website SEO friendliness? Or do you recommend me to host the website in france itself? I have also read that I need to have a static IP Address. If it's true, can anyone explain me for what reason? Can anyone suggest me some good web hosting companies, prefereable in france? Thanks in advance!


How to track hot-linking of image types in IIS7

I don't want to block hot-linking on my site; it's not that big a deal. However, Google Analytics doesn't show me referrers to png/gif/jpg content; I don't have any statistics on the load generated from external sites due to hotlinking. Is there a way I can have Google Analytics track those files? If not, are there any alternative software that can make this task easier than manually parsing through IIS7 logs?


How do I remove a LOT of indexed pages from Google?

A few weeks ago we have figured out that Google has indexed some information we would rather keep in some confidentiality, in the format of individual PDF files. Our assumption was that this was a problem with our robots.txt we had overlooked. Even though we are not sure whether or not this is the case, we are certain that the robots.txt file is in a valid format and is, according to Google's webmaster tools, blocking the files. However, even after this adjustment that has been made weeks ago, Google still has the PDF files indexed, but does tell us further information cannot be provided due to the robots.txt file being present. As you can hopefully understand, this is unwanted behaviour due to the nature of the documents. I am aware that there is a request page being provided by Google for this purpose, but there are a **lot** of files. Is there an easier way to get Google to remove all of the files from its search engine? If not, is there anything else you could advise us to do besides manually requesting Google to remove every single page?


What search statistics are most reliable?

I'm doing some research into the SEO of one my websites and looking at different keywords and the search traffic they generate. **Let's say I have a search term I'm ranked number one for a keyword and looking at the following reports reveals different results:**   1. Google Analytics reports 6 users visited on a particular day from a search term.   2. Google Webmaster tools reports I am ranked number one for the same search term and that 22 people clicked it on that same day.   3. Google Adwords traffic tool estimator reports the daily impressions would be zero for that search term (even when max CPC is 99999 and avg. position is 1). Is the Adwords traffic estimator a valid tool for SEO research? And why is there such discrepancies between my Google Analytics and Google Webmaster?


Should I use subdomains or subfolders for my user groups?

I run a photography website where each user has its own subdomain (i.e. user.site.com). I'm thinking of adding user groups but I'm unable to decide if I should also associate a separate subdomain or simply a subfolder for each group: **Subfolders** (www.site.com/groups/my-group) _Pros:_   * Easier to maintain from a tehnical p.o.v. _Cons:_   * Harder to memorize.   * The URLs can get really long (www.site.com/groups/my-group/albums/my-album/) **Subdomains** (my-group.site.com) _Pros:_   * Easier to memorize.   * Shorter URLs.   * One might have the impression that such an URL is somewhat more "independent" from the main site. _Cons:_   * Group and user names belong to the same name space, so we need to check for collisions when creating a new user/group.   * One cannot determine the content of the page by only reading the URL: Is x.site.com a user page or a group page? What's your opinion on the matter? I should note that DeviantArt.com uses the 2nd option (that's where I got the idea). Thank you in advance!


Should the title text of a hyperlink be the same as the link text for SEO?

Let's say I have the below hyperlink:               link link      It is good SEO practice to ensure that the title text is **exactly** the same link text? I.e. I would change the above link to:               title text      I know that the best practice is to have keywords in both, but does it do any harm if they are not identical?


Can using microdata from schema.org for local business hurt its exposure nationally?

Here's the dilemma: This website ranks in the first page for almost all of its products, but it is a local business. I should actually say, 90% of its business are still local, but we are trying to get more national exposure. One of the products sold has a CPC very high on google adwords and some very big companies advertise for it. The problem is that when searching locally for that particular product, this business does not appear in the "local results" section of google for example, nor does it appear in the first page. Having it appear locally is a must, while nationwide is a plus. Now, the question is: If i use microdata from schema.org to define this business as local (in every page, or only in the contact page, for example), will it help me get that local exposure on google? Furthermore, could that hurt the nationwide exposure? I'm afraid that defining it as local may mean to search engines that this company does not do business nationally. Resources: http://schema.org/LocalBusiness, http://microdatagenerator.org/


What's the best workflow for creating websites fast & cheap, but that work as needed?

Have some ideas, but for now I'm going to leave it description as the question. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!! **UPDATES:** * * * **Guidelines:**   1. Workflow makes the most frequent tasks easy, and less frequent tasks achievable.   2. Workflow covers 80% of the tasks.   3. Solutions use smart default settings. **Focus of the Question:** The focus is the production of front interfaces; HTML, CSS, JS, generic content/graphic source, etc. Also, I figure that if the workflow required a CMS that the template would be based on existing one implementable on a given system. Again, thanks for any and all post!! -- **Any real answers will get an up vote by me, and I will select an answer.** Cheers!


Indexing issues when the SAME page has meta noindex when accsessed from the sites front page and meta index when accessed from sites archives

People post different questions on my site. I have a php code which searches for duplicate questions before putting them inside my ARCHIVES. Due to the sites architecture and coding there is a time delay of about 5 minutes where the same question has meta noindex when accessed from the site's front page, and meta index when accessed from my archives. Could that cause indexing problems? confuse google? Ty


Can I use Google Analytics with commercials from other networks?

Does Google Analytics allow me to configure and evaluate statistics like CTR etc. for commercials from networks other than Google Adsense?


Bust some SEO myths for me?

While I'm not an expert at SEO, I know a little, and I have had someone tell me two things that I believe to be false, but just cannot convince him. Here are the statements he makes: 1) If more people visit your site, you'll get better SEO rankings. The context here is sending out an email campaign and people clicking from the email campaign through to the site. I don't think this has any factor in SEO rankings. I _do_ think that if people search for keywords where your site comes up, and click your site more often than those above you in the rankings, that you may progress, but I'm not even 100% sure on that. Am I right though that people clicking through an email to your site won't affect your SEO rankings? 2) Alexa rank is a measure of SEO importance / rankings. From what I know, Alexa rank is based purely off of people visiting your site who have the Alexa toolbar (or other software?) installed. This means that not only is it not counting all your visitors, but it's probably counting a specific segment, most likely more web savvy folks who have the Alexa toolbar installed. I consider myself OK at computers/web development, etc., and I've never had the Alexa toolbar installed. Anyway, is #2 a myth as well? Is there any evidence to support these two?


How can i style a link and a submit button the same way

I'm currently in css form hell on my website. I'd like to skin the **submit button** and the **cancel link** so they look the same. I tried to use two buttons to make it easier but since their behavior is very different, it makes sense to use two different tags, and i get some nice "no surprises" side-effects. So far, though, it has been a process fraught with disappointment and bitter failure; i tried to get both tags to play nicely one next to the other but all my css attempts are a waste of time. Either the link jumps up by a few pixels, or the submit button has its content slightly but noticeably lower, etc, etc... Is there a way to skin both tags with the same appearance?


Slow site because of WordPress Evolve theme

I've installed WordPress lastest version in my site. It is using Evolve theme. Demo of this theme is here. The original demo is also slow. Slowing is like that, site is waiting for 9-10 seconds for opening, server is not responding. Then it is opening. I tried at localhost, it is slow at my localhost. I changed to the default theme, my site gets fast. How can I find to problem of this theme? Here the results of `pingdom.com` speed test. ![Site speed](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dse81.png)


Is it better for SEO if the URL has the same path as the breadcrumb?

My product URL is `example.com/categorykeyword2/product`. The actual path (breadcrumb) is `example.com/categorykeyword1/categorykeyword2/product`. Would it be better in terms of SEO if the URL was the same as the breadcrumb?


Is it possible to use both align and size parameters for images in MoinMoin?

I'm getting a `500 Internal Server Error` if I try something like `{{attachment:image.png|alt text|width=100 align="left"}}`, both in the wiki I am actually trying to edit (https://live.gnome.org/) and in the MoinMoin wiki sandbox (http://moinmo.in/action/edit/WikiSandBox). The examples at moinmo.in/HelpOnLinking show how to use both parameters, but never combining them in the same image. It definitely seems to be possible to use more than one parameter (e.g. width and height), but the combination of width and align apparently brings the wiki engine down. Is there something I'm overlooking? How can I add a thumbnail of an image to a page in a MoinMoin wiki without using the default alignment (inline with text)?


Failing with Adsense / How to get $ PC

So, I am literally just starting out with google adsense. I have implemented google adsense ads from (1) account and from (2) different channels, per website they're on. (2 Wordpress Websites, activated with 'GoogleAdsense Plugin' for WordPress). They are implemented at the bottom of every post on my 2 Wordpress websites within the 'Blog' sections. My adsense dashboard is stating I've received a few clicks; but across it still states my account earnings and balance at $0.00. When / How will I start seeing money earned to my account?


Track Email with Google user contents img resource and redirecting to my website

I'm using Email tracking services of some Email sender company. It is achieved through requesting img resource when opening email. Here is the code inserted into HTML message: `<img src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/TObr7aARe70s=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.mywebsite.com/TrackEmail?j=eyJ1IjoiMQ4In0%3D&r=0.614693022798747.gif" width="2" height="1">` I'm interested in how eventually the request will come to my website. Can anyone please explain me? I think the magic is somewhere in this part `...d-e1-ft#htt...`.


Will i18next affect SEO? What about screen readers?

I'm considering using i18next for translating text. But then it suddenly struck me; If labels / text is retrieved through javascript, won't that affect SEO? And what about screen readers for visual impaired users?


Sitemaps for growing content and googlesitemapgenerator

The number of URLs on my website is constantly growing (by 10-50 per week or so). Should I:   1. Regularly submit an updated sitemap including all URLs.   2. Have a sitemap of only the static content of my website.   3. Have some tool which automatically creates sitemaps on any changes. As for 3. is googlesitemapgenerator useful in this respect? I am a bit anxious allowing a beta product mess with my Apache. Is anybody using it or has another recommendation of similar tools?


What does it mean when a User-Agent has another User-Agent inside it?

Basically, sometimes the user-agent will have its normal user-agent displayed, then at the end it will have the "User-Agent: " tag displayed, and right after it another user-agent is shown. Sometimes, the second user-agent is just appended to the first one without the "User-Agent: " tag. Here are some samples I've seen: The first few contain the "User-Agent: " tag in the middle somewhere, and I've changed its font to make it easier to to see. > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); SLCC1; .NET > CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; MRA > 5.10 (build 5339); `User-agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows > NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152) Here are some _without_ the "User-Agent: " tag in the middle, but just two user agents that seem stiched together. > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; > IPMS/6568080A-04A5AD839A9; TCO_20090713170733; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); InfoPath.2) Now, just to add a few notes to this. I understand that the "User-Agent: " tag is normally a header, and what follows a typical "User-Agent: " string sequence is the actual user agent that is sent to servers etc, but normally the "User-Agent: " string should not be part of the actual user agent, that is more like the pre-fix or a tag indicating that what follows will be the actual user agent. Additionally, I may have thought, hey, these are just two user agents pasted together, but on closer inspection, you realize that they are not. On all of these dual user agent listings, if you look at the opening bracket "(" just before the "compatible" keyword, you realize the pair to that bracket ")" is actually at the very end, the end of the second user agent. So, the first user agents closing bracket ")" never occurs before the second user agent begins, it's always right at the end, and therefore, the second user agent is more like one of the features of the first user agent, like: "Trident/4.0" or "GTB6" etc etc... The other thing to note that the second user agent is always MSIE 6.0 (Internet Explorer 6.0), interesting. What I had initially thought was it's some sort of Virtual Machine displaying the browser in use & the browser that is installed, but then I thought, what'd be the point in that? Finally, right now, I am thinking, it's probably soem sort of "Compatibility View" type thing, where even if MSIE 7.0 or 8.0 is installed, when my hypothetical the "Display In Internet Explorer 6.0" mode is turned on, the user agent changes to something like this. That being, IE 8.0 is installed, but is rendering everything as IE 6.0 would. Is there or was there such a feature in Internet Explorer? Am I on to something here? What are your thoughts on this? If you have any other ideas, please feel free to let us know. At the moment, I'm just trying to understand if these are valid User Agents, or if they are invalid. In a list of about 44,000 User Agents, I've seen this type of Dual User Agent about 400 times. I've closely inspected 40 of them, and every single one had MSIE 6.0 as the "second" user agent (and the first user agent a higher version of MSIE, such as 7 or 8). This was true for all except one, where both user agents were MSIE 8.0, here it is: > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Win32; GMX); GTB0.0) This occured once in my 40 "close" inspections. I've estimated the 400 in 44,000 by taking a sample of the first 4,400 user agents, and finding 40 of these in the MSIE/Windows user agents, and extrapolated that to estimate 40. There were also similar things occuring for non MSIE user agents where there were two Mozilla's in one user agent, the non MSIE ones would probably add another 30% on top of the ones I've noted. I can show you samples of them if anyone would like. There we have it, this is where I'm at, what do you guys think?


Social media measurement with Google Analytics

I work for a non profit and we are currently trying to develop a system to measure and evaluate our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter). We would like to track a variety of social metrics, including, but not limited to:   * Twitter      * # of followers     * # of mentions     * # of retweets   * Facebook      * # of likes     * # people talking about     * # of page views We are currently using a paid platform for this. I wondered if there is a way to configure Google Analytics to do this?


Is it possible to export comments from TypePad Connect?

Note that I'm not talking about TypePad, but TypePad Connect, their hosted commenting product. I see comments in their company blog from 2008 (!!!) saying they were working on an export feature, but I don't think it ever launched. So... is there any way to get old comments out of a TypePad Connect system? Or are they trapped in there forever?


What are some internet trends that you've noticed over the past ~10 years?

I'll give an example of one that I've noticed: the number of web sites that ask for your email address (GOOG ID, YAHOO! ID, etc.) has skyrocketed. I can come up with no legitimate reason for this other than (1) password reset [other ways to do this], or (2) to remind you that you have an account there, based upon the time of your last visit. Why does a web site need to know your email address (Google ID, etc.) if all you want to do is...   * download a file ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * play a game ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * take an IQ test or search a database ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * watch a video or view a picture ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * read a forum ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * post on a forum (mildly legit reason: password reset)   * newsletter (only difference between a newsletter and a blog is that you're more likely to forget about the web site than you are to forget about your email address -- the majority of web sites do not send out newsletters, however, so this can't be the justification)   * post twitter messages or other instant messaging (mildly legit reason: password reset)   * buy something (mildly legit reasons: password reset + giving you a copy of a receipt that they can't delete, as receipts stored on their server can be deleted) On the other hand, I can think of plenty of very shady reasons for asking for this information:   1. so the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. can very easily track what you do by reading your email or asking GOOG, etc. what sites you used your GOOG ID at   2. to use the password that you provide for your account in order to get into your email account (most people use the same password for all of their accounts), find all of your other accounts in your inbox, and then get into all of those accounts   3. sell your email address to spammers These reasons, I believe, are why you are constantly asked to provide your email address. I can come up with no other explanations whatsoever. Question 1: Can anyone think of any legitimate or illegitimate reasons for asking for someone's email address? Question 2: What are some other interesting internet trends of the past ~10 years?


Domain Name protection

I have purchased a domain name and I don't have plan to launch my website in the next few months. But one thing I am worrying about is that if in the mean time someone else uses my domain name for his/her website? Is it possible to do so? And if yes, how to protect my domain name?


Can I post other ads than Google with adnsense

Along with my google ads can I apply for other ad media and post their ads too with Google ads. I wanna post more ads. Is it allowed to use more than one adsense program and post both media's ads on same page?


What makes a SSL certificate "signed"?

When you buy a SSL certificate from Comodo, it is signed by Comodo and therefore trusted. How is it signed though? Why can't anyone sign the certificate pretending to be Comodo?


How can I obtain a domain that is abandoned?

There is a particular domain name that I'm interested in, but when you enter the domain in a browser the browser says "Domain has no index file", which doesn't appear to be a browser message, but a server page on the hosting software. So point is the site appears that it isn't being used, but it exists. The contact info (both email and phone number) in the WhoIs record are bad. The email I sent to the email address bounced back to me, and when I called the phone number a person answered (apparently residential line) who said there was nobody there by that name. It says it's been registered since 2003 and is registered until 2014. UPDATE: I did try filling a report with GoDaddy, which WhoIs says is the registrar of the domain, about two weeks ago. I just checked the WhoIs info again and it looks like they've removed the name, email address, phone number, and address of the domain registrant.


What is the diffrence between paypal Paypal Payments Standard and Paypal Express Checkout?

I need to implement PayPal on my web page, and I don't know which one to use, Paypal Payments Standard or Paypal Express Checkout or both. To me they seems pretty much the same.


Google fetched a title from the body instead of keyword stuffed title tags - could that be a problem for SEO?

I have a website that contains keywords repeated in the `<title>` tag, so Google fetched the most relevant keywords from the body of the page. There is no problem so far and my website is ranking 4th or 5th in SERP for my main keywords. My question is: Will Google penalize my site or will it create a negative impact on Google since Google neglected my Meta title and fetched a title from the body instead? **Note:** I can modify my `<title>` tag, but my keyword ranking is good, and also my website has 10 years of domain age and I'm afraid that if I change its titles, the SERP position may get very impacted.


SEO - how to tell search engines what the preferred URL is for content of part of a page

Given a page which displays a list of posts in chronological order on one URL, let's say: www.mysite.com/listofposts Each of these posts also has it's own URL, which displays the list of posts but with the selected post at the top and highlighted: www.mysite.com/post/1234 The problem is that when search engines are indexing the content, because the URL for an individual post actually has content from other posts on it, I am finding that quite often content is indexed against the wrong URL. Is there a way of telling search engines that different parts of a page should be indexed against different URL's? I've seen Canonical URLs allow you to indicate the preferred URL for content on a page by page basis, but is there a way to do it for a situation like mine, where I have a page made up of several different bits of content each of which have their own canonical preferred URL?


Will Google index a paragraph of text that is hidden by default?

I have a paragraph of text that I would like to count toward the content of a page, but users have to click to make the text appear. Can I and if so what is the best way to implement this without getting penalized by Google?


Fake Links Showing up in Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster tools is reporting a large increase in 'not found errors' on my site, and I see approximately 1700 'Not Found Errors over the past 2 months. All of them are for a url that is formatted like:               http://mydomain.com/click.php?c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'dmjdlgsbve%3E2'lfzxpset%3EQfbs'sbol%3E2'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C54528243%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C2%3C6224'vsm%3Eiuuq%264B%263G%263Gxxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn%263G'gffe%3Eopqbz'qsjdf%3E'tbq%3E%3A84%3A9g54e662db639%3A28eeb2cc8bb8e9'zbsht%3Exxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn      Google says these are linked from:               http://mydomain.com/index.php?Keywords=Pear&search_type=related2&cat2=Lemon+Cake&r=c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C27748763%3Ctuzmf2%60dvtupn/dtt%3C3%3Cjoufsdptnpt%60bggjmjbuf%603%60e3s%60efsq%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C656178%3C6224%3Cdmfbo%3Cmjtujoht%3Czbipp%3C'jqvb%60je%3E:84:9g54e662db639:28eeb2cc8bb8e9'enybsht%3Eg4dc139e6673d:812b:b::d8e34:9fe9&rd=1      When I browse to the url Google says these are linked from (both using my browser, and the fetch by Google tool), I don't see any links on the page to click.php. These links are supposedly coming from MY domain / server, but click.php does not even exist on my server. When I look through my server logs, I do not see any of the index.php? urls this says they are accessed from. What am I missing here? Is the link getting encoded in the url or something? How can I fix this? I would REALLY appreciate some help in figuring this out. **Update:** I had purchased a domain (that was previously parked), and moved my site to it a few months ago. Apparently these links existed on the parked domain, and Google has gone through and crawled all ~1700 of the links twice now. Once a few months ago, and once 2 days ago. Is this something that will affect my ranking in Google? Is there any way to notify Google that all of these links are gone / incorrect? Should I use the 'remove urls' tool in webmaster tools?


How to point Google Apps subdomain to external websites?

I have registered for a domain in Google Apps. It is automatically registered with GoDaddy. I was wondering how can I make a subdomain point to my blog: `blog.mydomain.com` => `myname.blogspot.com` `photo.mydomain.com` => `flickr.com/photos/mystream/` How can this be done? I can access the zone file editor (DNS Manager) in `godaddy.com` but I am not sure if I need to change the _Cname/A_ records for this.


How to track in Google Analytics registrations coming from Google AdWords ads?

I created a campaign in `Google AdWords` and some ads in it and gave them URLs like               mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=x     mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=y     mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=z      All ads lead to the registration page. A registration is a visit of the page               mydomain.tld/registration-completed/?user={ID}      So I can track the registrations in Google Analytics. I just go to `Behavior -> Site Content -> All Pages` and filter the pages to `registration- completed`. But how can I see, **how many** and **which users** have registered, after they came from an ad of a campaign, e.g. `utm_campaign`? And how can I also track this for a single ad of the campaign, e.g. `x`?


Direct-Linking file hosting?

Hello I'm developing a project, and I need to know is there a file hosting which support direct links to txt, zip? I have tried some free hosting sites, but all I do is get 403 forbidden when trying to access the direct link. Thank you


Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?

I'd like to host a website on **Amazon S3**. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both `example.com` and `www.example.com`?


Does using LiteSpeed instead of Apache speed up WordPress?

I've read that Litespeed is a lot faster than Apache. I use mostly WordPress and Joomla sites and am looking for a new server. Will I see a significant increase in speed of WordPress being on a LiteSpeed server?


Am I using the correct data type in schema.org for a job site?

I'm having a hard time chosing the best data type in `schema.org` for my local job site. We're offering premium job postings for employers. Currently, I'm using the data type `local business` with Google Structured Data Markup Helper. Am I doing this correctly?


joomla 2.5.6 menu related

On my website : www.openlx.com, in the submenu (below the main menu - "Home"), the URL currently looks like: http://openlx.com/home/aboutus.html Same way, in all the sub-menus to the main-manu "Home", the word "home" is part of the URL. I want to remove this word "home" from the URL, and same for all the sub-menus to all the menus.


Website Name shown at the end of HTML Titles

A google search for > site:cnn.com cnn returns results like > Kenyans one dance away from semifinals - Sports **- CNN.com** > > Health News - Medical, Mental and Dental Treatment ... **- CNN.com**   1. Is it possible to **not show** the website name **in the search result titles**?   2. Where does google read the name of the site from?


Google Analytics Views - Why Use Them?

I've been reading about Google Analytics views but still not sure why I would use them. I'm the only person in the company who understands and uses Google Analytics. We have no subdomains. Is there any reason why I would want to use views? Google Analytics has been going for some years now and I just created a copy of the original view but this has zero data, so I can't see how it would benefit me.


Can the webpage title be changed after site has been loaded.

Can the web page title be set to be dynamic? I want to let some part to be updated in title, if any changes occur, an automatic update resulting in a bit of word addition to the title. Example : the original one : "what is the title name" Now after setting to automatic update when a event as an answer is posted - "what is the title name (1 answer)"


Is there an app or service that allows a customer to log in and submit design requests?

I have several clients with several requests coming into my email. Is there a website that would give me the ability to receive client design requests and then schedule them for me?


Using rel=canonical with syndication

I work at a site which allows syndication of content (via API's and data dumps). We are finding that a number of sites which republish our content are appearing higher in Google search results, even though we're the original publisher. This is frustrating. We are considering making rel=canonical part of our attribution requirements. Google says it's legitimate to use it across domains, and in syndication scenarios. Have you done this, and does Google consider the canonical URL in search rankings? Will it help us in reducing such SERP "spam"?


Is there an alternate resource similar to Mozscape by SEOmoz?

I was wondering if there is an alternate (free or paid) resource similar to SEOmoz's Linkscape (now Mozscape) where the entire web is indexed and a website's entire link profile is scraped and documented.


Should I leave old events in my sitemap?

Should I leave old events in my sitemap that have passed, or remove them? The sitemap is quite huge and I didn't know if that was OK.


Google insight question

I am checking the word mobile on google insight. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=mobile&cmpt=q I see a bar with mobile ]]]]]]]]]]]]] 62 Then on google help page - I get this. However, I am unable to understand. **The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100.** **My question is what does the number 62 determine? Any ideas?**


View the campaign terms for only a specific medium In Google Analytics

I'm using the `utm_term` parameter for links in my email campaigns. I'd like to filter out the parameter from my master profiles. That is, removing `utm_term=keyword` for visits with `utm_medium=email`, so the organic keyword results are not skewed, while having a view which includes the term for further analysis. What are the correct order and filters to accomplish this?


site hacked but positions not back

My site was hacked about 6 months ago. I managed to finally get around to removing the malicious code, and Google removed the warning from my site. However, my traffic has not yet returned to where it was pre-hack. How long does it usually take for traffic to return after malware is removed?


Automatically appearing contact form like Kiss Insight?

I have been using Kiss Insight which is great to collect customers' feedbacks. However, this is only an one-way communication because we can't answer some of customers concerns. Is there any hosted solution that works like Kiss Insight but allows customers to enter their email and you can reply back?


Web hosting services

What are the best hosting services?


Simplest way to lock down a beta web site but allow paypal payments

Perhaps a strange question, but I have a website that's not ready for production use online in order to test paypal payments. I had locked down the site using a .htaccess file however this also prevented ipn notifications from hitting my ipnlistener which meant i was unable to keep track of payments successfully being made. so I temporarily remove the htaccess file to allow this. Is there a way to lock a site down with password protection but allow certain scripts to run? Bit of a noob at this thing


Poll component not showing Home link in breadcrumb

With the joomla's default Poll component, when I go to vote, and it takes me to the results page, the Home link disappears from the Breadcrumb navigation. Is there a way to make the breadcrumb navigation always show Home when in the poll results page? NOTE: We're still running an older version: Joomla! 1.0.15 UPDATE: Checked the CHANGELOG.php, and on June 23, 2006, this issue was supposedly fixed. However, it doesn't seem so.


Turning openbase_dir off using .htaccess

I'm trying to run a script on my shared hosting account, I keep getting an error relating to `open_basedir`, which I understand would normally be turned off in the _php.ini_ file, which I don't have access to. Speaking with the host they recommended that I put this line `php_flag open_basedir off` in my _.htaccess_ file, so it now looks like this:               <Files ~ "^\.(htaccess|htpasswd)$">     deny from all     </Files>     AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.co.uk/httpdocs/pri/.htpasswd     AuthGroupFile /dev/null     AuthName "Please enter your ID and password"     AuthType Basic     require valid-user      order deny,allow          php_flag open_basedir off      But I still cant get the script to run, have I implemented it correctly? Is there a line in the `phpinfo()` output that I can view to tell if its worked?


Registration vs Anonymous

As of late, I've been in quite a bind. I have this website which is a simple Q/A. Just for fun -- being built with all that good stuff (PHP/MySQL/jQuery/etc) Anyways, I found out I cannot do MANY THINGS without getting a positive ID. Without registration (them becoming anonymous), I can't keep track of who's who. Sure I can use IPs or cookies but those are not fool-proof. I can't do things like "favorite questions", "upvote questions", "email notices", spamming cut-down, etc ... among other things. If you DO register, you WOULD be able to do experience those feature thus making the website more fun to visit. However, at the expensive of not registering and giving up those features, I am at a bind. Should I give up those features and have no-registration anonymous posting Q/A or make them sign up with three forms... email, password, password check, SUBMIT! Then login-logoff... What do you think? (Sorry if I put this in the wrong place...)


What is the replacement for Google's "Search Within Results" feature?

On one of the sites that I maintain, I used a link to allow Google Search with the "Search Within Results" (`/swr`) feature as follows: `http://www.google.fr/swr?q=site:http://bio.m2osw.com&hl=fr&lr=&swrnum=404` That returns a 404 page now however. I tried it with HTTPS, but the same thing occurs. I also noticed that Google started to use `#q=...` instead of `?q=...`. In any event, is there a simple replacement for the `/swr` feature?


Penalized website using noindex,follow

This is an interesting question I was wondering if anyone had any experience with. If a website is penalized for a keyword because of excessive spam links pointing to the homepage with said keyword as the anchor text, could you solve this problem by using a [noindex,follow] tag on the homepage and optimizing a different page for the same keyword?


Does ranking depend on the number of pages in a website?

Assuming a website offers a great service on one unique page, will it be negatively impacted regarding ranking because this website URL only has one page? In other words, is there a ranking benefit in having many pages in a given website? Or does it not matter, ranking is always per page, not per website?


Subdomain 000Webhost

I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please guide me **Main Domain work correctly with these settings** **DNS Setting**               Point A(Address) "IP Address" to @     Point A(Address) "IP Address" to www      **Wordpress Setting**               WordPress Address (URL) = http://www.mydomain.com     Site Address (URL) = http://www.mydomain.com      **000Webhost Setting**               Parked Domains = http://mydomain.com     Created a database for maindomain      Copied Wordpress into /public_html/ * * * **Subdomain doesnt work with these settings** **DNS Setting**               Point A(Address) "IP Address" to subdomain      **Wordpress Setting**               WordPress Address (URL) = http://subdomain.mydomain.com     Site Address (URL) = http://subdomain.mydomain.com      **000Webhost Setting**               Added a Subdomain = http://subdomain.sample.site.net     Created a database for subdomain      Created a folder including copied wordpress in /public_html/subdomain


Building a New Website

Let me begin by stating that I'm not a professional web designer. I need to create a website for a small company, owned by a friend. I want to make sure that whatever I do can be extended in the future & built upon when required. I'm confused whether I should start from scratch or use a framework, such as Drupal or Joomla. Any pointers? By the way, the website has the usual suspects: products, contacts, about us, etc. **Edit:** In response to Joshak's & Dave's answers, there are no plans to sell directly from the website. Content changes will take place every 3 months or so.


Apache HeaderName does not work in .htaccess

So I have a .htaccess file in a subdirectory that contains a list of folders. In the main directory I have a .htaccess file that contains:               Options +Indexes     IndexOptions FancyIndexing     AddType text/html .php     Addhandler application/x-httpd-php .php     HeaderName /header.php      As a test inside header.php I have:               <?php     TEST APACHE HEADER     ?>      I still see "Index of [Directory]" instead of my static title, What Am I doing wrong? EDIT: I've even tried `echo "TEST THIS DIRECTORY";` and still does not work.


Does setting document.domain via script interfere with Google Analytics?

I have a site, `www.example.com`, that displays some secure content from `forms.example.com` in iframes. To enable cross-frame navigation, pages on both sites use JavaScript to set the `document.domain` to just "example.com". I am using Google Analytics on www.example.com, but the GA site is not showing any data. It indicates that the tracking code is found (the status icon is a green checkmark), but no data is reported. The GA profile lists the website as "www.example.com". Is this a supported scenario? Is my script interfering with the GA code in some way?


Using iframes is still considered bad?

Back in the early 2000's using (i)frames was a big no no for developers. Although they made development easier, it was shunned in every circle and various reasons. My question is, is it still advised not to use (i)frames? Although there are plenty good reasons to use them? ( e.g. separating navigation from content etc.)


Pros and cons of creating a print friendly page to remove the use of pdfs?

the company I work for has a one page invoice that uses the library `tcpdf`. they wanted to do some design changes that I found are just incredibly difficult for setting up in `.pdf` format. Using html/css I could easily create the page and have it print very nicely, but I have a feeling that I am over looking something. What are the pros and cons of setting up a page just for printing? What are the pros and cons of putting out a `.pdf`? I could also use the `CSS` inline so that if they wanted to download it and open it they could.


Authoritative database for storing whois data for .com gTLD

Since VeriSign is the Registry operator for the .com, .net (and other gTLDs) shouldn't they be keeping a database of all the .com domains that are registered? If they are not responsible for this, then which authority is? I would like to do a whois lookup but I would like to query the most authoritative database.


Does Stack Overflow use a microformat for questions/answers?

Recently when I have seen Stack Overflow results in Google, I have seen something like this: ![Google SERP](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QlvQn.jpg) Note the text, "9 answers". Does Stack Overflow do anything special to get this shown? I have noticed a similar Rich Snippet on Yahoo Answers, which also said "Solved". I skimmed the source of both pages and couldn't see anything specific that looked like a microformat. There is nothing on schema.org specifically about Q&A. Is Google treating these sites specially?


Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server

I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these host names to my dns. I have a zone named domain1.com, when I want to add domain2.com as new host it will automatically set FQDN to domain2.com.domain1.com How should I config my DNS? Thanks for your help.


Are there huge differences between Safari versions on Windows and Mac OS?

I have recently engaged in a conversation where were people defending that you should test your websites on Safari for Windows and on Safari for Mac, because they're very different. As a webmaster, there is this constant concern on having my web applications or websites running on every browser, but I don't have a Mac available for me to try the performance and/or rendering engine. Long story short: are there huge differences between Safari for Windows and Mac? Does anyone use Safari for Windows as their main browser and can tell me if it's important for me to test on it too?


Is there anything wrong with targeting the alt attribute in css?

I tried targeting the the alt attribute in css. My solution worked in Firefox/Mozilla, but fails in Safari-Chrome/Webkit. Is there anything wrong with styling an alt tag? If not, how do you suppose I troubleshoot for Webkit. _Here's an example:_ **CSS**               img#logo[alt="Site Title"] { color: #999; font-size: 2em; }      **HTML**               <img id="logo" src="" alt="Site Title" width="" height="" />


80% of Website Traffic coming from Just one Town in USA - Strange?

For the last month, 80% of my total traffic was coming from just one Town in the USA. Here are the attributes:   1. It is one of the richest towns in California in USA which defies logic since I run a website for coupons.   2. The bounce rate is not 100%. It is around 80%. I read on this forum and it talked about how the bounce rate should be very close to 100% if it is a bot.   3. Almost 98% of visitors from this town show up as new visitors.   4. Around 20% of this traffic shows up as coming from Stumble Upon with a Bounce Rate of 57%. The other 80% shows up as coming DIRECT to website. (Hardly unlikely since we just started the website).   5. 50% of Visitors are using Chrome, 30% Firefox and 20% Safari. Can anyone tell me how to check if all this traffic from one town is real or fake? I am concerned that DIRECT Traffic is highly unlikely since this is a very competitive market and we just got started.


Google is not indexing my Tumblr blog sufficiently

I have a 35-day-old blog on tumblr. I submitted it to Google using "Add your URL to Google" page about a month ago. However, when I search Google for the content of my blog using the following query, only 5 posts are fetched: > site:mehper.tumblr.com I have more than 200 posts on my blog. I'm also using Google Analytics. What else can I do to make Google fully index my blog?


What tools to use for automated link and spellchecking

I'm looking at two automated tools to scan our site and alert us of spellcheck and link error problems. Check Dog - http://checkdog.com/ Site Check - http://siteimprove.com/Solutions/SiteCheck/SiteCheck2.aspx Are there other tools we should consider for this? Or do you have any experiences you can share about these tools? Our goals are basically to have something consistently checking the entire site for spelling errors and link problems. We've been just using Xenu - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html which works pretty well for spot link checking, but it doesn't do any spellchecking and it isn't automated.


Why is the number of pages on my website indexed by Googlebot decreasing?

I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Googlebot for one of my websites . I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added that much over the last week. (Actually I don't think I added any new content.) But at the very least, I would have thought that the number of indexed pages would be static (if I was not adding anything new.) I don't understand why the numbers have dropped. Does anyone have an official explanation for this?. I have checked the Google Webmaster Tools, and have not come across anything that addresses this issue directly.


What does "Impression Change" in Google webmaster->search mean?

I have been using Google Webmaster Tools. I checked out the search queries section. There I found a lot keywords and its report, but I could not understand what the data in those reports mean. Can anyone help me with a reference or meaning of "impression", "change", and "other"?