Mailing list and privacy

I'm going to start a mailing list for my website and I'm concerned about my users' privacy (regarding their addresses, contents not allowed, etc.. I'm kind of new to these things). Is there any document/policy I can read about this topic?


mapping naked domain (www.domain.com) to static website which is saved in s3

I am developing an web application, I recently purchased the domain from godaddy.com and the domain is use google apps, for email, calendar docs and other services as well. Now I just need to show that" my site is under construction" I have a static page which is put on S3 now I need to map "www.mydomain.com" to that static page which is stored on s3. I am kinda of newbie/novice to this so kindly help me.


Decode url in httpd.conf or htaccess

For some reason I am getting 404 errors in my log file because of users trying to access something like http ://www.domain.tld%3Fid%3D222 instead of http://www.domain.tld?id=222 I've unsuccessfully tried all sort of rewrite rules. Is there a way to decode URIs from Apache? Related questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7246497/htaccess-query- string-urldecode and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8464298/rewrite-and- url-decoding


Alternative to GoDaddy?

For a number of reasons I'm thinking about slowly moving my domains away from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I don't know of a good alternative, and am looking for a recommendation. To match what I currently use godaddy for it would have to offer:   * Full control over domains via web interface   * DNS service with web control interface. (preferably free, or reasonably priced)   * Private domain registrations (i.e anonymous whois data) Any ideas?


Internal CDN and setting up subdomain to increase maximum parallel connections

I've heard that browsers can have around maximum of 6 parallel connections per domain at a time. So I decided to have another subdomain "cdn." then use mod_rewrite to point to media folder then change image references pointing to this "cdn." for articles in the database. Will this increase the speed of the site since it's increasing parallel connections to about 12 now?


Excessive visit count but extremely high bounce rate

We recently had surge of visits on our site, usually they are between 30-40, we suddenly got about 340 visits with about as many unique visitors. However, the bounce rate shot up to 96%. It was only the one day. After that, visits and bounce rates have been normal.![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pO9zy.png) What can this be?


Can I have tracking parameters immediately after a forward slash /?

I would like to start redirecting all `/index.php` pageviews to `/` to clean up GA data and otherwise simplify URL hits. _Does anyone foresee this causing any problem when using tracking parameters?_ E.g. `www.domain.com/?stay=1` | `www.domain.com/?ref=adwords` Should these be ok?


Agile social media analysis and implementation

Are there any books/platforms for social media campaign planning and implementation that define a completely agile approach to engaging audiences on platforms such as Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc? * * * **UPDATE:** Posted a bounty on the question since the current answer is really not about agile approaches to social media campaign planning and implementation. * * * **UPDATE 2:** The question is asking for an agile social media approach, or a social media platform that has agile social media approach baked-in. If the question was about an agile approach to software development, SCRUM would be the most likely answer of an "agile approach", since it's my understanding that roughly 70% percent of agile software developers say they practice some form of SCRUM. Pivotal Tracker might be one of many "agile software planning" platforms suggested; as a generalization Pivotal Tracker might be called a software project management platform. On the flip-side, suggesting just a "social media platform" might be the equivalent of suggesting a "project management platform"; meaning the suggestion lack a suggestion of both an "agile social media platform" and "agile social media approach", and the problem is that if you haven't suggested an agile social media approach to try on this social media platform, then you haven't provided an answer to the question. * * *


Show Cloudflare requests in apache log

I have a number of sites using cloudflare as a CDN with the apache mod_cloudflare installed to restore original visitor IPs to my server logs. Does anyone know of a way I can make the logs identify which requests came via cloudflare and which didn't?


Free standalone crawlers

Are there any free standalone crawlers that I can use apart from Google webmaster to analyze errors? Something that shows me all 404's, errors etc


How to refresh server caching dynamically when we have the web application running in clustering environment?

Consider a typical webapplication which runs on an application or web server in clustering mode. Let us say we have 3 nodes in the cluster and the application is running on these 3 nodes and serving all the user requests. There are some property values that are stored in database and instead of going to database every single time this application maintains a cache at server side, at node level, and stores these property values in the cache and serves the values from the cache. Now we update on of the property value in the database. How do we ensure that this updated value gets reflected in cache across all the nodes?


How do I solve this error when importing MySQL databases into phpMyAdmin?

As part of a system rebuild of my local machine, I have exported all of my MySQL databases using the Export tab in phpMyAdmin. The result is one large file containing each database and their respective tables. My setup is a MacBook running MAMP 3 Pro Upon trying to restore the databases, I am running into a problem where phpMyAdmin seems to want the each of the databases to be created first. A typical error message is: * * * Error SQL query: -- Database: `myfirstdatabase` # 1046 - No database selected * * * I have clearly gone about backing up my databases in the wrong way, but is there a method for easily recovering from this situation?


Backing up Web Server Locally

As an added backup, I'd love to have an external hard drive sitting here with my Mac that backs up our web server. Is there any way to have a total backup initially done of the entire web server, with it then doing any changed documents after that? Server is running linux (hosted by Media Temple, dv 4.0 / Plesk 10.x) Local machine is a Mac running OS X Lion.


Is adding noindex for new product pages a good idea?

When adding batch products to an eCommerce website, is it a good idea to initially have _noindex_ on the product page? After manually reviewing individual products, should I remove the _noindex_ tag? Batch add will only add manufacturer description and specs, so it will result in duplicate content found on lots of websites selling the same items.


IIS 7.5 - HTTP Redirect and URL Rewrite

my goal is to give the users a friendly url like appname-help which should point to a sharePoint wiki site where we create the help content, the SharePoint url is ugly and long, something like: http://myprojectportal/Companyname/ProjectCollection/appName/WikiName/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx which of course nobody likes. After having asked the Server guys to create a DNS entry like this: appname- help which points to my web server I am now trying to configure IIS to redirect to the long url, creating a web site and configuring the HTTP Redirect feature it works fine but after redirect in the browser I still see the long old url while I would like IE and other browsers to keep showing the short friendly url appname-help even if the redirect has been done and the content comes from the SharePoint. What else should I configure in the web.config or should I use the additional URL Rewrite module available here: http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite? since I am redirecting to SharePoint site and not to a custom ASP.NET web application I have no global.asax nor any .NET C# file to edit only web.config and IIS settings for the redirect website to play with...


index.html in subdirectory will not open

I want to have a website structure like this:               example.com/ - homepage     example.com/solutions/ - this will be the solution parent page     example.com/solutions/solution-one - child solution page     example.com/solutions/solution-two- child solution page      I have setup the `example.com/solutions/index.html` file so it can be opened as a parent page, but is shows me an error `You don't have permission to access /solutions/.html on this server.` What is the problem? How can I open the parent directory page? I am just using regular HTML pages; no CMS or anything.


Use different document root for subfolder of URL

I have an php application that uses an MVC framework. Lets say it lives here http://domain.com on the web and here /srv/www/domain.com on my server. I want http://domain.com/blog to use a wordpress install from here /srv/www/blog and all the root web traffic to go to my MVC app (as shown above) How can this be done? I am using linux and apache.


Tips for breaking into domain brokering?

As a web developer I consider myself fairly familiar with SEO and website structure in terms of advising clients where there is room for improvement and such, however recently a client of mine asked me to broker what appears to be a fairly high value domain (I'm estimating fair market value of +$1k because it's dot com era concise & simple) however I'm not sure how to go about being the broker. In particular I'm wondering what is the best way to valuate the domain and leverage the information during a negotiation. For example when a website is in the mix, you at least can check the SEO, rankings, etc. but as this is a plain domain name which is not used I'm not sure where to pull data. Aside from checking domain sales and auctions for similar domains to get a ballpark fair market value, are there any other tactics I can use? Are paid appraisal services helpful at all? Is there a way to do them myself? As I'm planning to turn this into a new company service, any referrals to tips and websites on the topic are greatly appreciated.


Do I need an SSL Certificate?

I'm thinking about building an app that lets users upload images to sites like Flickr. They would need to enter their password to do this. I would send the data through PHP, do I need to get a SSL certificate for that?


Anatomy of HTML by big name companies

Are there any blogs or other postings that detail the anatomy of HTML code served by a very big name commercial operation like say Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, etc? I'm just asking for a close piece by piece guide to understanding the structure and design of an HTML page written by an industry leader for the purpose of learning by example. I am especially interested in this kind of guide for a "static" page rather than part of an interactive web app. Note: I am perfectly well versed in HTML and web dev, as are most people on this SE, so when answering please assume that we are already familiar with plenty of general tutorials and style guides but are looking (maybe out of curiosity) for analysis of an exemplary HTML page made by a top end company.


Is this form of cloaking likely to be penalised?

I'm looking to create a website which is considerably javascript heavy, built with backbone.js and most content being passed as JSON and loaded via backbone. I just needed some advice or opinions on likely hood of my website being penalised using the method of serving plain HTML (text, images, everything) to search engine bots and an js front-end version to normal users. **This is my basic plan for my site:** I plan on having the first request to any page being html which will only give about 1/4 of the page and there after load the last 3/4 with backbone js. Therefore non javascript users get a 'bit' of the experience. Once that new user has visited and detected to have js will have a cookie saved on their machine and requests from there after will be AJAX only. Example               If (AJAX || HasJSCookie) {          // Pass JSON      }      **Search Engine server content:** That entire experience of loading via AJAX will be stripped if a google bot for example is detected, the same content will be servered but all html. I thought about just allowing search engines to index the first 1/4 of content but as I'm considered about inner links and picking up every bit of content I thought it would be better to give search engines the entire content. I plan to do this by just detected a list of user agents and knowing if it's a bot or not.               If (Bot) {         //server plain html     }      In addition I plan to make clean URLs for the entire website despite full AJAX, therefore providing AJAX content to www.example.com/#/page and normal html to www.example.com/page is kind of our of the question. Would rather avoid the practice of using # when there are technology such as HTML 5 push state is around. So my question is really just asking the opinion of the masses on if it's likely that my website will be penalised? And do you suggest an alternative which avoids 'noscript' method


How can I track the "Traffic Sources" of "Unique Visitors" by Google Analytics?

Now I can only see the "Traffic Sources" of "Visits". But what I would like to know is the number of "Unique Visitors" from each referrals. But when I go to "Traffic Sources" -"Referrals" from the left side menu bar it only shows the number of "Visits" Any idea? Or if google analytics doesn't provide this are there other similar tools for it? Thanks.


Chinese bots in my forum

I have a small community forum that doesn't really get posts or any real traffic. The only thing that happens on the regular is bots with Chinese IPs signing up gibberish usernames. Most bots don't make it past the captcha but some do. I try to stay on top of this by banning IPs and ranges of IPs but it doesn't really seem to help. The bots never post anything so what are they doing? Should I be worried? Should I keep banning IPs or is it futile?


Migrate from Google App Engine

I'm working with the app engine platform, python 2.5.x and Django, and I'm looking for other solution to host my web app. Can you suggest me blog, or websites who explain how to install a such platform.


Does having a mobile version of a website improve the page rank?

Does google crawl the mobile version of a website? ~~I would think not, since the user agent would be that of the google bot.~~ If it doesn't crawl it, does it mean that having a mobile version of a website has little impact on the page rank?


How to login as another user in phpmyadmin

I installed phpmyadmin in Win7, and if I type `http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php` in the browser, it will log in phpmyadmin as root user by default. I created a new user but still there's no login window... every time it logs in as root by default.. how can I change user? Many thanks!


Why Google Analytics is displaying wrong landing pages?

I see all of my pages as Landing Pages in Google Analytics which cannot be true as I did not post those pages anywhere and I don't see any traffic hitting directly to that page. Also, I am using virtual page views on few buttons and I see those virtual pages as Landing pages too. For example, /click/request-a-quote 35000 views 35000 is too big a number to be ignored. Even if I ignore Virtual Pages Views, I see a lot of pages as Landing Pages that I am 100% sure that visitors ( atleast not so many users) are NOT hitting directly. Any advice, how to `debug` it? PS: I'm using the following code: var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '<>']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); _gaq.push([' _setLocalGifPath', '/images/_ _utm.gif']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview','account/phase1']);


Can server errors cause major traffic drop from Google?

My web server was down for about 30 min. The next day (30~ hours from the event) I noticed major drop in traffic from Google. The normal traffic to my site is about 2500 unique/day and after the event it dropped to 400/day. Other than this event nothing happened. Can this be the reason?


Analyzing logs: how to get page views broken down by page?

I have a WordPress site where we didn't enable "pretty" permalinks, and thus, all pages in it have URLs in the form `?p=3921`. Now, when I log into the statistics page in my hosting provider, I see that the most visited page is `index.php`, which lumps together all the pages in the site, but I can't tell apart the visits for each page. I can download the raw access logs, though, so is there any web analyzer software that can show me access stats broken down by page? (NOTE: this is not a request for WordPress plugins, or Google Analytics. Those might be useful in the future, once we've installed them, but the logs I'm trying to analyze now are from the last few weeks).


Porn description in Yahoo and Bing search results

If you check out the **fifth** link **ABLawyers Online Education Centre** on **Bing** : http://www.bing.com/search?q=ablawyers&form=QBLH&filt=all&qs=n&sk=&sc=1-9 You will see porn text "Jennifer Carpenter ...." I also get the same with the **sixth** link when you search for "ABlawyers" in **Yahoo**. When searched on **Google** , it does not have the same problem. How can this be fixed? Thank you.


How to best understand website design for those with a background in graphic design?

What are the best resources (i.e. tutorials, video keynotes, blog posts, etc) that best assist graphic designers understand the paradigm of website design? As a web designer, I'm really interested in having my sister (a graphic designer) working with me. How to best explain her how to design for the screen, with practical and easy-to-learn resources (i.e. how to build website layouts for the web) without having to spend time with books?


Dynamic sitemap file

Does it matter if I serve sitemap.xml as a dynamic page? e.g., use .htaccess to rewrite sitemap.xml (or whatever static URL I submitted at the Webmaster Tools) to a PHP file. The PHP file will call the DB and generate the XML file on the fly. Does it matter if I use it like this a dynamic PHP page, or should I prepare a static page? The only downside I see is the load time of the file, but it doesn't sound too important considering this page is accessed only by SE boots. Joel


Site Search Engine for 1,000 page website

I manage a website with about 1,000 articles that need to be searchable by my members. The site search engines I've tried all had their own problems:   * Fluid Dynamics Search Engine Since it's written in perl, it was a bit hacky to integrate with my PHP-based CMS. I basically had to file_get_contents the search results page. However, FDSE had the best search results.   * Google CSE Ugh, the search results SUCK. It can't find documents even using unique strings. I'm so surprised that a Google search product is this bad. Nor can I get any answers on their 'help' forums, and I am a paying user. Boo, Google. Boo.   * Sphider Again, bad search results. Unable to locate some phrases used in link text. Better results than Google CSE though. Shame on Google that a free PHP script has better search results than their paid application.   * IndexTank This one looked really promising. I got all set up with their PHP API client. But it would only randomly add articles that I submitted. Out of 700+ articles I pushed to the index through their API, only 8 made it in. Unable to find any help on this subject. **Update for IndexTank** -- Got the above issue fixed, so this looks most promising so far. The site itself runs on php/mysql and FreeBSD, though this shouldn't matter for a web crawling indexer. I've looked at Lucene, but I don't know anything about Java or installing Java programs on my web server. I also do not have root access on my web server, if this would be required for installation. I really don't need a lot of fancy features. It just needs to be able to crawl my web site and return great (even decent!) search results. I don't need any crazy search operators. It doesn't need to index off my primary domain. It just needs to work! Thanks, Hive Mind!


When does FireFox ask for confirmation on page redirect?

Every once in a while I click a link and see the following (I'm using FF 11.0): ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4XPQA.png) I was wondering why FF does this on some redirects/links and not on others. I was thinking maybe it does that when you're on a page that contains a `<form>` element? Thanks for any help here/


how to assign web server and domain a public ip adress

i have installed an ISO image of windows server 2008 r2 onto my VMware workstation, as a virtual server. I am trying to host my own web server for testing purposes.I have Internet service with sprint and i called them to obtain my public ip address. Now that i have my public ip address how to i assign it to my server? I also have a web domain name that i would like to point it at that web server. Do i give it the public ip address or do i give it the name of the server?


How to track iframe and parent window as one pageview in Google Analytics

I have a site that contains the following characteristics:   * Header is defined by code my team controls on subdomain B and is loaded via iframe   * Body is defined by third-party code and platform on subdomain A and is the parent page   * Footer is defined by code my team controls on subdomain B and is loaded via iframe I am using Google Analytics (GA) to track pageviews. **I would like the load of each page (consisting of all three elements) to register in GA as one pageview. In addition, clicks in the header and footer should not count as referred visits.** How can I accomplish this? I know that I can solve the referrer issue with cross-domain tracking:               ['_setDomainName', 'maindomain.com']      However, I also have to track the pageview to make it take effect:               ['_trackPageview']      This would result in 3 pageviews tracked for one actual page load as far as the user is concerned. Since this particular site nets millions of visitors a month, tripling that is not ideal and would put us over the 10 million events Google Analytics will track reliably on the free plan.


Can I set a variable "Expires" in Amazon S3?

I have a ton of files in Amazon S3 (served via Cloudfront) for which I have added an Expires header of `Mon, Jan 1 2024 11:11:11 GMT` However, I have recently learned that setting an Expires header more than one year in the future violates the HTTP 1.1 RFC. So is there a way in S3 to set a dynamic Expires that is always one year from the request date?


Is my project a web site or a mobile app?

I am a web developer. I have been developing web sites professionally for 15+ years using ColdFusion, SQL Server, and jQuery. I am doing a project for a client that uses the above technologies. The site has a mobile facet too. For that, I am using jQuery Mobile. The site enables retail store personnel to gather a store customer's preferences using any smart phone or tablet. The store personnel just needs to access a special link via a QR code and a login. Anyone can easily access the site from a PC's browser, too. Some sources suggest that mobile apps must be downloaded and installed using a third party, such as from Google, Amazon, or Apple. Others sources suggest that any information designed for use on mobile device is a mobile app. Regarding the site that is specifically designed for use by mobile devices that extensively uses jQuery Mobile, is this a "web site" or a "mobile app"? What is the "proper" description for this type of site? My customer insists that it is one and not the other. I insist that it is the other and not the one. Can you help me clarify this?


How do I properly deal with duplicate content when showing the latest content from my blog on a main page?

If my website has multiple blogposts:   * `/blog/first-post.html`   * `/blog/second-post.html`   * `/blog/third-post.html` ... and I want only the **latest** post to be fully shown on `/blog/` What is the best way to handle this SEO friendly? Should I add a canonical relation fromt `/blog` to `/blog/latest-post.html`? Should I redirect traffic from `/blog/` to `/blog/latest-post.html`? And if so with what redirect code: 302? Should I not use `/blog` altogether and have my main menu button "Blog" directly go to `/blog/latest-post.html`?


Making HTML5 videos stored on AWS S3 **difficult** to download (because I cant make it impossible)

I am building a website that hosts video's stored on AWS's S3 service. The videos are played thru a HTML5 player we have built. Ive just been asked to make sure "nobody can steal our video's". Now I know that if you really don't want something stolen, don't put it up on the internet. However I just need to secure these videos as good as possible, the videos need to at the very least resist someone going thru the source code and trying to download them manually. One option available to me is to completely rebuild the video player in flash. This is not ideal, for several reasons, notably because I would also then have to build an App for mobile devices to be able to view this site. So I am looking for other options. I have heard about using a token to make the file available only during certain times. I have heard of using a separate file to serve the videos that sits between the HTML5 page and the video file. I am also having a look at IAM, the Secure AWS Access Control, in the hopes AWS can solve this problem for me. Can anyone here recommend any of these options? Or perhaps suggest other options available to me? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


More confusion over SEO Cname and 301 redirect

Previous answers on this topic don't really help me with my query, so any help appreciated for a bit of a newbie. I have a new domain "domain#1.mobi" Its hosted with godaddy and has a cname and forwarding, pointing it to "domain#1.elsewhere.us" It has no content. The content is all hosted on "domain#1.elsewhere.us" which is what Google is now listing in its results. I want Google to ignore that and only list "domain#1.mobi" in its listings. How do I achieve this?


What to put up during development? "Coming Soon" page is bad for SEO

I've purchased a domain. I'm in the process of creating the website for that domain. This may take about a month. In the mean time, what is the smartest thing to do with that domain, in terms of SEO? For example, should I send a 204 No Content HTTP header? I know that's not the right thing to do but what is? I know that simply having a "Coming Soon" page is also bad for SEO. Any advice?


Why doesn't Segoe UI font work in Google Chrome on Metro Bootstrap?

When viewing the Metro bootstrap in Firefox, the font looks as it should, while in Chrome it defaults to what I assume is Helvetica. The problem is that I don't know where that "nice" font which shows up in Firefox is located. The font's name is Segoe UI, but there's no font file with that name in the Bootstrap package, it's not referenced with an `@font-face` declaration and there's not SiFR or Cufon. I have no idea why Firefox knows how to display it. Does Segoe UI come bundled with Firefox? I'm not sure how I should approach solving this issue, maybe adding a whole new `@font-face` declaration via Font Squirrel would be an overkill if there's a simpler solution? On the image below, left side is how Firefox renders the page and the the right side is how Chrome renders it. ![Metro bootstrap font comparison between Chrome and Firefox](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZAfD1.png)


What is the maximum frequency for checking email in Gmail, and are there alternatives?

I am trying to build a Python program for small business. My customers will send their orders in plain texts via email to me. My first thought is to use Gmail as my email server so I could write a small IMAP Python program to check for incoming emails from my Gmail account. However, I am worried that Google has a limit for email checking frequency (i.e., "polling") and/or bandwidth. If I am checking new email once every 10 seconds, I'm concerned that Google will lock my account in just a few minutes - I'm afraid to even try this. I am not experienced enough to set up my own email server in a Linux box yet. What options do I have? Will upgrading to Google Business email solve this problem, or are there any other vendors that provide IMAP servers which offer more bandwidth and permit increased email checking frequencies?


One site being on a subdirectory of another. Does google count this against you?

I have created two similar websites (relating to monetary systems). So far, one appears to be loved by Google and the other hated. I'm struggling to work out why. This is a mystery to me because both sites were created by me with the same design philosophy, both in pure html. Both are packed to the rafters with references to, and information about, their respective subjects. One issue I'm worried may be the cause is to do with the location of the sites. I got a web hosting package from hostmonster.com for the successful one, but less liked one is just an "add-on" which sits on a subdirectory of the successful one. I wonder if Google somehow detects this and treats it as a less significant website? **EDIT:** Just to clarify, even though one site is an add-on that sits on a subdirectory of the other, the URL is arranged to look like it is a root. I.e. the unpopular site can be accessed directly with a simple www.myunpopularsite.com name, without specifying any subdirectory. **EDIT:** Just in case its important... say the popular site is called pop.com and the unpopular one unpop.com. In the webspace I've purchased, there is a directory called public_html. This is where I put the index.htm and all the other files of my popular site. When I purchased the add-on unpop.com. I made a subdirectory of public_html called unpop. It is within this "public_html\unpop\" that I place the index.htm and all the other files of my unpopular site. Typing www.unpop.com into the address bar of a browser links directly to the contents of "public_html\unpop\" and the user is not aware that this site is sitting on a subdirectory of another site. BUT if you type "www.pop.com/unpop" into the address bar of a browser you DO see the unpopular site.


font compressor

I want to use @font-face in my css but I have a lot of fonts. Does anyone know of any software will let me to compress my fonts?


How do I receive anonymized email sent to my domain?

I have a web app in which users will contact each other using anonymized email, similar to how craigslist works. For example, user B posts an ad and the web app includes an anonymized address which is unique for user B such as address1U4J5K6Ldf345@mydomain.com. User A sends an email to address1U4J5K6Ldf345@mydomain.com, and my app reads it and sends the contents of the email to user B. My domain is at godaddy and my (django) site is hosted on the cloud on an amazon EC2 instance. My question is how do I set up the DNS and mail servers to do this? Do I have to run my own postfix or sendmail server on my amazon host, or is there a way to have godaddy's mail server save email to all addresses at the domain, so that I can access them by pop or imap? Or is there some third party service that would work?


Schema.org & Open Graph

We currently use Schema.org for our rich snippets in Google. I want to add Open Graph along with that, so other social signals will recognize our site better. If I add OG to our existing schema, will that have any effect on our current rich snippets?


Does Google Analytics track visits via Tumblr dashboard?

I wondered if GA tracks visits to my Tumblr accessed through Tumblr dashboard by other Tumblr users. And if it can track visitors who only view my blog via the Tumblr dashboard. My GA stats are 320 visits for last month, but I have about 400 likes or reblogs for the same time period, so not sure how this is possible, unless the visits through Tumblr are not tracked. Does GA only track those who type in my site address directly or those who are logged in to Tumblr to access it as well?


How to sort order of products in website using zen cart

I am currently developing a website using zen cart and i pretty much have everything done but i am running into a slight problem. When I am putting items up that have numbers in them(ie. 10mm, 20mm) they are not being displayed in the right order. Instead of going 10mm, 20mm....90mm, 100mm, 110mm it is going 10mm, 100mm, 110mm.....190mm, 20mm, 200mm, 210mm Does anyone know how to sort this out because it is driving me mad :( Thank


LinkedIn Advert stats not matching with my Google Analytics data

I received a voucher from LinkedIn which gives me $50 worth of Advertising, and as I've started out on my own as a web designer/developer I thought this would be a good opportunity to get some extra business. Anyway, I've used LinkedIn's stat counter and it has said I've had ten "valid" clicks to my website. However, when I check my Google Analytics account, it states that one day I only received 6 clicks from LinkedIn, 4 of which had a 100% bounce rate and stayed on the website for 00:00:00. I've spoken to LinkedIn about it, and they e-mailed me back saying a few things. They have said some users might have Javascript turned off, so won't show up on my Analytics software. He also said that my Analytics software might be tracking LinkedIn.com (which it is) and that this will over/under report registered clicks on my site. To me, I'm suspicious that most of the clicks aren't 100% legit, and they might be trying to eat up my $50 voucher before I have to start paying. It does sound like a paranoid view point, but when one stat counter is saying I've had 10 clicks in a day, and my Google Analytics account is telling me only 6 clicks came from there. Am I right to be paranoid or have I completely missed how these things work? Cheers


Fetch as Google goes infinite loop (again)

A couple of days ago, I faced an issue with Google Webmaster's Fetch as Google functionality. The page was going into an infinite refresh loop. I started a thread on Google's forum. The issue disappeared by itself. Unfortunately, this issue is happening again. Google still does not have the latest copy of my main page in its cache. The Fetch as Google page is going into an infinite loop again. Anyone knows why? Any idea/suggestion is welcome... Thanks!


MediaWiki {{Special:PrefixIndex}} outputs "$1 - Wiki Title"

I've set up some sub-pages, and trying to use the Special::PrefixIndex template to create a listing of these sub-pages as per http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages#Displaying_subpages So, for example, under User:Sjones I've created User:Sjones/Drafts When I use `{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}` I get `$1 - Wiki Title` instead of the a list containing User:Sjones/Drafts I've enabled subpages for the user namespace. When I view the page Special:PrefixIndex and enter "User:Sjones" I get the correct list. I'm using version 1.21 on Ubuntu 12.04 I've since learned that the problem is with the TinyMCE plugin for MediaWiki - disabling the plugin restores the correct functionality. How do I get this working with the plugin enabled?


How to tell Google to crawl distinct part of the webpage?

What approach should I take to make the website Google-friendly, http://anuary.com/. The problem is that when a specific content is being requested (eg. http://anuary.com/1/home/anuary) user is taken to the page using scrollbar, though the surrounding content is still being loaded. How to tell Google that for this URL http://anuary.com/36/portfolio/three-musketeers only the #36 entry should be crawled. Is there a tag or other way to select the surrounding content as irrelevant for the URL?


CSS not loading when site is viewed via Windows VPN

Internal site has recently been redesigned, but IE8 does not seem to be loading the new css rules only when viewed via VPN. I really have no clue what to look for. I can't reproduce the problem, but it's apparently affecting client for the last month. I've suggested:   * Reloading IE8   * Checking Internet   * Permissions   * Flushing the cache I'm not really certain what direction to search for the answer. Is it likely to be a server permissions issue? a VPN connection issue? a rare ie8 CSS bug?


authorize.net SIM PCI compliance

Does anyone know if authorize.net's SIM rids you of having to be PCI compliant? The payment form is hosted on authorize.net's site and they're processing the payment. I know you can do a relay response which basically puts some of the transaction details in a url that goes back to your website(to display a receipt). I'm not sure what all information gets put into the url though. I'm wondering if that makes you have to become PCI compliant?


Advice on planning domain names

I am planning to have my own website and would like to ask some questions regarding about the organization (I don't know if this is the right term for it) of domain names. Let me give an example: If I have a domain named “ **www.joe.com** ” but is planning to have different websites or categories for my varied interests but would still retain the “joe” name on my domain, would it be better to have a sub-domain instead? Is that it? Is this what would turn out: www.joe.com = my main site   bookworm.joe.com = a blog for my love of books   travel.joe.com = a blog for my travel experience   food.joe.com = a blog for my love of food and cuisine   I also notice that there are other websites that are like this: (this is just an example, but you get the idea) www.personname.com = main site   www.personname.com/blog = a blog for his site ( is this a subdomain now)   Everytime you go to the www.personname.com, you are then redirected to the www.personname.com/blog address. Is it safe to say that the blog address is a sub-domain and for blogging only and then the www.personname.com is the main site? What is the difference of this approach compared to the first example I've given above? Cheers!


How to embed an authorize.net payment gateway form into a single page website with one item for sale?

My website sells one item. I am currently using the simple checkout button embedded on the website. Rather than having the button I would like the order form to be on the single page with a field for quantity. At first I imagined that there would be a simple form that I could embed however it looks like that I need a full integration into my website through the Advanced Integration Method (AIM) which is much more complicated then I wanted. I don't want integration into my website, can I do it without, and if I have to what is the cleanest and simplest way to do it?


How to integrate authorize.net CIM and ARB

I have created some customer profile id's and customer payment profile id's. What i want is to use existing customer payment profile id for ARB so that users don't have to type their credit card details again and again.


How can Cloudlfare speed up PHP/MySQL?

My dreamhost plan offers me to use cloudflare CDN to speed up my pages. My page uses PHP/MySQL. I was wondering how this works, because everytime the page is loaded it must execute the PHP code and the MySQL query anyways on the dreamhost servers, so cloudlfare can't speed it up, right?


Why are subdomains important?

I am a noob and am just wondering.


What can I do to increase my site's conversion rate?

I have a UGC site where I get some people from search. Most of them just leave, but I want to learn what to do to increase their conversion into community members. Is there any free software available that helps with this? Also, what can I track in the user session that might be helpful to get an understanding for how to get poeple to stay on the site. Thanks! Here is an example of a page that people land on so its more clean what I am talking about: http://www.problemio.com/problems/problem.php?problem_id=161


Which is better for search engines, repeated phrases or different phrases with the same meaning?

When I'm designing an ads website I have two options:   1. Let the advertiser to choose from some predefined lists to create the new ad. For Example:              product list ( T-Shirt, Shorts, Suit, .....)     Color list   ( Black, Red, .....)        2. Let the advertiser to write his own descriptive content for the product. For Example:              "Amazing suit with a good price"      I like the first Scenario but which is better for search engine optimization [SEO], repeated phrases or different phrases with the same meaning? Note : assuming each page will contain one or more ads


Migrating website to subfolder in another domain

I've a old site : `site1.com` but I want to move it to a folder in another site: `site2.com`. So `site1.com/about.htm` content should be accessible as `site2.com/new/about.htm`. Beyond doing a 301/302 I think I'd need to add content of _robots.txt_ from `site1.com` into `site2.com`'s. Similarly `site1.com` sitemap URLs would need to be changed and should appear below `site2.com`'s. Is there a checklist for doing such migration?


How does one redirect from one wordpress page to another via htaccess?

I tried making the following change to my wordpress site to permanently redirect a common link to a new page. I could've -sworn- that this used to work. But it simply does not (at least in WP 3.9). I have had to resort to using a Redirect Plug-In. I'm wondering -why- it doesn't work and if there is a technique which -will- work. I'd prefer to continue to use .htaccess for simplicity. Below is the .htaccess file:                # MY CHANGES      Redirect 301 http://mysite.com/gigs  http://mysite.com/booking/           # BEGIN WordPress      <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>      RewriteEngine On      RewriteBase /      RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule . /index.php [L]      </IfModule>      Again, it works by using a redirect plug-in inside WP, but there must be a way to force the 'redirection' to occur -before- the URL is passed to the WP engine, right? How is the done?


In my IP query, the response is "SOA prisoner." What does this mean?

what does "SOA prisoner" mean in the results of my IP query? Prisoner to what ?


Is Google App Engine permitted for Commercial Use?

I don't see anything that says commercial applications are **not** allowed but I also don't see anything that says they **are** allowed. Can anyone find anything definitive?


My blogger site is disabled and marked as spam. How can I restore my blog?

My blog url is `banners-bannerbuzz.blogspot.com` I have already "clicked to Restore", But no reply till now... When I clicked again this message was displayed: > Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has > characteristics of a spam blog. Since you are an actual person reading this, > your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is > inherently fuzzy and we sincerely apologise for this false positive. > > We received your unlock request on 15 March 2011. On behalf of the robots, > we apologise for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take > a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam. Can anyone suggest what can i do, i want my blog back, because it has a PageRank of 2, and gets 30,000 visits from it.


Any particular reason why FaceBook's Subscribe Button isn't showing?

I got this FaceBook profile for my upcoming website and I can't get the Subscribe button to show, NOT EVEN ON FaceBook's page! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003492130845 Now, if you go here on FaceBook's page where we build the Subscribe button: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/subscribe/ And add the above link, it will show nothing.


Best Domain Redirect Approach for Large Network

We are launching a new network and want to focus/funnel users to our top sites. We have hundreds of domains, but most of them don't really merit their own development (many were bought for brand protection), and would ideally redirect to one of the top sites, which there are only a handful of (20ish) For example, we have a food category. Our main site in this category is something like FoodSite.com. We have dozens of smaller subcategories that fit into the food category. Like BakingSite.com, PastrySite.com, SnackFoodSite.com and so forth. If we 301 redirect PastrySite.com, BakingSite.com, and dozens of other ones to the main portal, FoodSite.com, are we making a terrible SEO mistake? We know people who go to PastrySite.com will be interested in FoodSite.com (and have relevant, quality content there for them), but PastrySite.com does not merit its own page at this time. What would be the best approach to this in regards to SEO? Everything i'm reading tells me 301 redirect, but I've never seen the topic discussed at such a large scaled (hundreds of sub-categories pointing to 20ish strong umbrella sites with quality content). Any points would be greatly appreciated!


How do I run something from the command line on shared hosting?

I have shared hosting and they haven't given me command line (or ssh or shell) access. Is there a way that I can run something from the command line?


Site blocked in some networks or by some ISPs

I'm an not an expert webmaster. The thing is I setup my website (http://meemo.com.co) in a Virtual Private Server, in a CentOS installation. My website has been blocked by some company networks and some ISPs in the country, as I have been informed by some customers. My website doesn't even appear in Google results, even if it's been up for more than a year. What can be causing the blocking of my website? I've tried to look in black lists to no avail. thank you!!!


Ceiling for search with Google

I use Google Webmaster tools to follow my website and I'm confused about search stats. For several months, the curve about search requests reached the limit on 3000 search by day. The curve never goes over 3000 search by day. Does Google limits request per day for a small website? Can Webmaster Tools not show more than 3000 requests per day?


Is there any other CDN than Amazon which supports hadoop?

I need know about CDN which offers to store HDFS .   I know amazon offers such service but i am looking out if some others are giving some better service , additional features or cheaper service. Please suggest me some options .


Got PHP; Need Designer; How Good is this approach

So I was free for a couple of weeks and hence I wrote the php script for a website that I had in mind. To be honest; I am not the best; I am just an amateur; I have read a couple of books (o'reilly) and that is all i know about php. Now my website so far looks nothing but a few links and their working. I am thinking of giving it to someone who have some experience in designing and all. How good is this approach towards launching a website. I had this idea about the website, and wanted to do it on my own, but as already stated i am not the best at it. I dont have any long term plans for the website; I might go for an experienced programmer later; but at the moment; all i want is to have the feel of start-up if you'll call it the same. Am I going in the right direction; by doing the php coding on my own; and now looking for a designer? Any suggestions. P.S. Shall i post this question on `Onstartup`? Edits: The website will be like an online competition that will last for 8-10 months, it will not store any personal information of the people associated with it.


I am taking ownership of a website. Do I need to take ownership on the domain name first, and then transfer the website to the new host?

I am going to be rebuilding a new website for a new client. There current site is at a different host and registar. I want to transfer ownership. Which one do I do first? Domain name to new registar or website to new host?


Unable to add a domain (purchased from godaddy.com) to the dreamhost account

My client just purchased a domain from `godaddy.com` and I'm trying to add it as a new domain on their dreamhost account. But it is unable to be added. It simply doesn't work and doesn't even show any kind of error message. What may be the issue and how can I resolve this?


Apache HTTP redirect from a URL list

One of my web applications will be completely replaced by a new system. All URLs will change and thus external links would break. I want to setup Apache httpd to answer with proper 301-redirects to the new URLs. Now the catch: There is no formula/regex to derive the new URL from the old, so I need to maintain a mapping list. Ideally I'd like to have it in a location/position where an app I will write allows the content owners to add/edit the mappings themselves. How would I do that?


Google crawl errors "DNS issue- link unreachable and time out errors

Can any one tell me why Googlebot cant fetch my website and its links? I have a website and for past 30 days Google Webmasters can't fetch any links from my website. This caused the removal of my website from Google search. I also tried "fetch as Googlebot" option but it failed. The error it's showing is " **DNS issue** -Links **unreachable** and **Time out** error". I also have Google Analytics and Bing Webmasters Tools accounts which work fine (Bing crawls and fetches links from my website). I can access my website through browsers also. I have searched other forums and found out that it may be my hosting providers blocking Googlebot. When I wrote to them they told me that they have allowed Googlebot to my website. Now I have become a little frustrated about this problem. I really don't know why this error is occurring. I cant even add Google AdSense because of this problem. If anyone has or had this kind of error can they suggest what causing it?


If I change or remove the same URL from a site is it a bad impressions for Google or Google Webmaster

I am having an issue, before I make one page like this:               appna.php?ty=Skype Id is Coming Soon      But now I have to remove that page and link. In the Webmaster Tool it's still showing that page with an error. I'm confused on what I can I do? If I change the domain is it a good impressions for Google? And I'm changing web content like 2 or 3 times is it also good or bad impressions for Google?


Goals are not registering in Google Analytics

I've had a site online for a few weeks, and Google Analytics is working fine. Except Goals, which are not registering for some strange reason. To be clear: visits to the site are being registered, but no goals are being registered. This is not correct, as people are visiting the goal pages. I've set up two pages specifically to test this, Funnel Page and Goal Page. (You can visit these, but please do not visit any other pages on the site, as I am performing an experiment and SO referrals would taint results). Below is a screenshot of `Profiles > Goals` on Analytics. ![What I have set up](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nPRYA.png) Can you see any obvious mistakes I have made? I think I must have missed something really obvious, as this is my first time using Analytics, but I must get this fixed ASAP. It's driving me crazy.


How to pre-load images used only on hover?

I have a link that starts with one background image and then changes on hover to another. Both background images are set in the CSS. My browsers (any of them) don't seem to load the hover image until you actually hover. But then you end up with a blank image for the several seconds (on my very slow connection) it takes to load the new one. Is there a way to encourage the browser to pre-load the hover image so that delay time doesn't occur on hover?


Why does Facebook provide fbadmins meta tag that results in an error in facebook debugger

I log in as my "page" and then go to https://www.facebook.com/insights/ I click "Insights for your website", and a dialog box pops up saying this: > Add a meta tag to your webpage Gain access to insights for your website by > adding an fb:admins or fb:app_id meta tag to your root webpage, linking it > to your personal account or an application. and it provides a meta tag in this format, with a 15-digit `content` attribute value:               <meta property="fb:admins" content="123456789012345" />      I copy and paste that inside my `<head></head>` tags, enter my web address into the dialog box I just described and submit it, and get this error: > Bad request No admin data found at root webpage http://example.com/. > Insights requires admin data at this root webpage for the specified URL > example.com (Of course, I used my real web address, not "example.com") I found facebook's site debugging tool here. And when I run my url through it, it gives me this error: > Errors that must be fixed Object Invalid Value Object at URL > 'http://example.com/' of type 'website' is invalid because the given value > '123456789012345' for property 'fb:admins' could not be parsed as type > 'fbid'. After that, I tried changing fb:admins to fb:app_id in the meta tag and that did not fix the problem either. So, why is facebook telling me to use that code if it's not the right code?


GA Source/Medium/Campaign for QR or typos

I'm doing an experiment for a realtor with a single property sites (e.g. 123address.com) and we want to track the various traffic sources but confused on the GA terminology   1. agentsite.com featured properties page    2. agentsite.com normal search results    3. syndicated MLS data, this could appear on any domain that shows the 'virtual tour url'    4. QR Code on the FOR SALE sign in yard    5. typo redirect (it's a funny street name so we got a typo domain 123addresss.com) I'm looking at this and wondering what I should enter https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en[1] I know the agentsite.com should look like:   1. Source: agentsite.com Medium: featured_properties    2. Source: agentsite.com Medium: search_results   3. Source: MLS Medium: virtual_tour   4. Source: qrcode Medium: ???   5. Source: 123addrez.com Medium: redirect? I'm struggling with QR Code and typo redirect..QR code for example, **I assume the Source would be "qrcode" but what would Medium be?** the same? Does it matter? Finally as I'm a total noob, **should "Campaign Name" be the same for all of the above?** "123 Address Sale"


Is social media engagement of a webmaster a good idea?

I have been participating in some political discussions on youtube and google plus and as much as I try to refrain from it, some of them turn into heated ones after a while. I maintain a lot of GWT accounts from this gmail email and I have often wondered if this engagement might affect any of my clients' (shared gwt access) or my own (owner) Search Engine rankings given the fact that Google has the capability of putting these two together.


List Posts and SEO

I was checking list posts on sites like freelance folder and found that they link to external and internal articles weekly. You can check freelanceswitch site for example of their weekly linkswitch post. So my point is -   * too many link posts have any bad impact on site ?    * How google or any other search engine measures the value of such posts?    * Also how value of link is passed ?    * or all values to links in the posts are passed equally ?


How to write content that uses keyword terms which are google stop words

The keywords for our site comprises of words which are google stop words namely:               thank you      Is it better to write this as:               thank-you      or               thankyou      or does it make any difference?


Can preventing directory listings in WordPress upload folders cause Google ranking drops when they cause 403 errors in Webmaster Tools?

I recently moved to a new host that blocks crawling to my uploads folders but (hopefully) allows the files in the folder to be crawled. I now show many 403 errors for each folder in the uploads folder in my Webmaster Tools. For example, http://www.rewardcharts4kids.com/wp- content/uploads/2013/07/ shows a 403 error. For example, I can access this file: http://www.rewardcharts4kids.com/wp- content/uploads/2013/07/lunch-box-notes.jpg but I cannot access the folder it is in. My rankings went down after I moved to this host and I am wondering if:   1. this could be the reason.    2. is this how files/folders are supposed to be set up?


Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends

If I compare three phrases in google trends :   * house    * sale house   * white house I get the following numbers:   * house -> 91   * sale house -> 3   * white house -> 2 The question is: Is "sale house" and "white house" already included in the number 91? It is an important question, because if it is true, than:   * house_except_sale_house + sale_house = 91   * sale_house = 3 Which means I have to compare 88 and 3, if I compare "house" and "sale house"


Form validation - security and input specification

So I'm working on a register form and I have four fields: name, username, email and password. I pick up the values of these fields in jQuery and depending on if all the fields are filled, I pass them onto a PHP script via ajax. Is that safe for form validations? I was worried about data getting manipulated by the user. Further on in the PHP script, I check if all the posted values have data in them, only then will I proceed onto doing some validations. The validations are the parts where I'm worried that it's not the best and there are many flaws with it.               $name = $_POST['name'];     $username = $_POST['username'];     $email = $_POST['email'];     $password = $_POST['password'];          if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z '-]+$/i", $name)) {         $errors = "Please enter a valid name.";     } else if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z]+\s[A-Za-z]+$/", $name)) {         $errors = "Please enter your first and last name.";     } else if (strlen($username) <= 3 || strlen($username) > 15) {         $errors = "Please pick a username between 4 - 15 characters. Be creative.";     } else if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{4,15}$/", $username)) {         $errors = "Please pick an alphanumeric username between 4 - 15 characters.";     } else if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === false) {         $errors = "Please enter a valid email.";     } else if (strlen($username )< 6 || strlen($username) > 32) {         $errors = "Your password must atleast be 6 characters.";     } else {         echo "valid";     }      Are these validation steps secure? Are there any loop holes that the user can manipulate the data? The requirements for the fields are as follows - which I'm not so sure I hit on the head with my code:   * The username should have alphanumeric characters with underscores (optional)   * the name should have BOTH the first name and the last name


How to make parameters look more attractive

I'm making a blog site and instead of the users blogs being called /blog?display= _username_ I would like it to just be a sub domain such as mysite.com/ _username_ How would I be able to make the first URL look like the second URL?


Google Analytics: Can I target utm_term in an Advanced Segment?

I want to track clickthroughs from emails using tracking URLs (eg crafted at URL builder). I'm planning out the various terms to ensure that I have max flexibility in future, and can accommodate, and track different versions of the email (some crude AB testing). I have found that in the advanced segments panel:   * Campaign maps to utm_campaign,    * Source maps to utm_source,    * Ad Content maps to utm_content, and    * Medium maps to utm_medium **Can I target utm_term?** Is this likely to be useful, or am I overthinking this :) Tx for your consideration ![looking for the utm_term](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rT3Rq.png)


Remove query string from 301 redirect URL

I'm having some trouble with redirects and I haven't been able to get this to work. I want to make `http://www.mysite.com/seasonal/christmas?p=15` redirect to `http://www.mysite.com/holiday-decor/christmas.html`. I was wondering if someone could help me with the rewrite rule so the query string doesn't appear in the redirected URL. I'm using _.htaccess_ with a Magento platform site.


Handling Pagination on WordPress?

Few days ago Google came up with a post on URLs with parameters. The post can be found here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/improved- handling-of-urls-with.html Now, my website uses WordPress blogging platform, and the blog post from Google is inclined towards the e-commerce sites. However, I was wondering if I should follow the pagination rule for my site to make sure duplicate content isn't picked up by the Google bots. My site has URLs for pages are like this: http://blogote.com/page/3/ Should I be worried? Should I leave it as it is?


when will google revert back page rank after i cleared network unrechable error

1. For the past one month i was getting network unreachable error.   2. I contacted my web hosting and they said that google bots were blocked if it were causing more traffic.    3. And then they witelisted google bots.   4. Now the errors did not appear but my ranking and search results went down to more than 6 pages or they did not appear at all.   5. Now google is able to read my robots and sitemap. Just yesterday.  when will search results and page rank gets to its previous positions? like it were before a month? Most links did not appear in google search result.


free lightweight mobile webmail

I'm looking for a free lightweight mobile webmail. Something like squirrelmail but for mobile phones. roberto


SEO impact of server errors

Our website is up and running fine but a WordPress plugin is broken (we can't fix it very quickly) so a few hundred pages show server errors. The pages would load header and page of the page body but stop halfway and does not load sidebar/ footer at all. These pages are not 404. My question is how big the impact of these servers errors are in terms on SEO and traffic.   There are 500+ pages with server errors according to Google Webmaster while we have 14,860 index pages.


Can I have users share images from my site on Instagram?

Is there a way for me to suggest that my users share the images from my website on Instagram? I've found share buttons for other sites like Facebook and Pinterest. I ask because a user was uploading screenshots from the website to Instagram and getting a fair amount of interest in it. I would like to make that process easier for users.


Why is ww35 used in some URLs?

A question asked on my website here http://www.wrangle.in/topic/av5b5ymlhoyc/what-is-the-difference-between-www- or-ww I want to give them answer but I didn't find anywhere on google. So I thought better asking it here.


Hacking resources

I'm currently developing a web application which has a lot of javascript working behind it. Before I deploy it (which will take a couple of months), I want to make sure that it is atleast a bit secure in terms of attacks. I saw this link already but it doesn't have any resources that I could use to learn the 'art' of hacking. I don't want to exploit other sites, I just want to learn it to make my site safe.


configuring loadbalacing with nigix

Hey guys i am trying to loadbalace my website with ngix..I have seen many tutorial and i have found one..According to tutorial i have seen that i need to add               upstream myCloud{          server s1.domain.com;;       server 10.0.1.2;       server 10.0.1.3;     }      those lines to my configuration file ..so my question is that can i add a subdomain like something.domain.com to the server place ..Hope you guys can help me out


How does the customer edit there own website once I have created it for them?

I am relatively new to HTML and CSS programming, but in the future I'm Hoping to create websites for clients. How does the customer (who I suspect has no knowledge of HTML or CSS) edit there own website once I have created it for them? Will they have to rely on me to constantly update there website for them? or is there a program which the HTML and CSS code can be entered into which makes future editing possible without having to manually alter the code?


Anyone know a way to find out the number of Twitter followers for a particular account on any given date?

I manage two corporate Twitter accounts and two personal Twitter accounts, and it would be really useful to know how many followers each account has at the end of each week. I'm using TweetStats.com to gather statistics at the moment, but the follower stats functionality isn't granular enough to determine the precise number of followers. Does anyone know of any useful and free tools that can provide the exact number of followers for a specific Twitter account on any given date?


I want to add adsense for my blog

I made a blog few months back,I wanted to add adsense for it but yesterday I found out that the e-mail address I use is blacklisted by google adsense,I have applied for google adsense some years back but they replied back that the site did not had much content.Why would they blacklist my email address?Can I have a new adsense account?


AdBlock users statistics

**Are there statistics of internet users that use AdBlock or other ad blocking plug-ins?** Are there some statistical breakdown, for example, per country (I assume it must vary a lot)? I was unable to google the information I am looking for. The reason I am asking is because I have just signed up for the "Amazon Partners" program and see that this affiliate program is listed on the AdBlock blacklist.


What are some good feeds/blogs/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development?

Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood/@codinghorror, of course) that I should be following as a resource if I want to stay on top of what's new as well commentary on what exists? _**Please consider simply editing this question, rather than posting another answer if you have something to add that is not listed here. Additionally, feel free to add descriptions to items already listed._** Twitter accounts:   * @codinghorror   * @smashingmag   * @shanselman   * @scottgu   * @haacked   * @jquery   * @jeresig   * @slicknet   * @paul_irish   * @trentwalton   * @sarajchipps Blogs:   * Coding Horror   * A List Apart   * Fabulous Adventures in Coding   * StackOverflow Blog   * FriendlyBit   * Fiftyfoureleven   * Paul Irish Feeds:   * Reddit Programming Feed   * Y Combinator


Good SEO information (NO MARKETING)

Where can I find information on SEO without all the marketing crap? Googling always results in "learn SEO fast!" or "buy our SEO training program" I can never find something that is "free". I know much already but because I see no "organization" in SEO I cannot verify if what I know is everything (in IT that is almost never the case but you can get close); so is there at least a good book for SEO or something rather than marketers opinions? I'd like official information from Google, Yahoo/Bing or a reputable book. But no website that is trying to sell me something (unless it's reputable for having information that I do _not_ have to buy). _SEO is not a trade secret is what I am trying to say..._


Can a site recover by itself after dropping google page rank for 404 errors?

Recently redid a website and changed the directory / URL structure. I did some .htaccess redirects for the main landing pages - however when reviewing web master tools received 404 errors for the rest of the changed URLs and noticed that Google dropped my site from the #1 position to around the 5th page. I corrected all the 404s by providing redirects in the .htaccess, resubmitted the site map and tested the google crawl bot. Will my page regain its rank by itself - or am I going to have to put some time into like I originally did?


Should home page be just domain name or can it be in a folder?

I am working on a website project and the client has requested (for reasons of hosting convenience) that the new website be located in a specific folder. This means that all pages will be in www.domain.com/folder instead of just www.domain.com, and they will have a meta instant redirect on the default page for www.domain.com which will redirect to www.domain.com/folder. I am wondering from a SEO perspective if this is a good idea? I believe that the meta instant refresh will be treated as a 301 (permanent) redirect by the important search engines so I presume that www.domain.com and www.domain.com/folder will be treated as the same page, and also be considered the same page for link popularity too. Is this correct? Is there any arguments (preferably with some sort of proof I can give them) that I can use to argue against them doing this?


CSS reduction for faster loading / less bandwidth

Is compacting CSS / Removing unused rules for a specific page worthwhile in terms of bandwidth or can we rely on caching (headers/last-modified) to remove this overhead in the wild? Cheers Also, good luck with the beta everyone!


Google penalty recovery

I have a site, which is a spiritual site and has nothing to do with commercial or business thing. It was in the first page with the keyword `RADHANATH SWAMI`. Then suddenly, in sep'13, the site went out from google search. When I checked my WebmasterTools, I saw that there were 40,000 backlinks from a site named http://freeguestbooks.net.   But manual action section in WebmasterToolssaid "No Manual webspam actions found" and till date, it shows the same. Then I contacted the webmaster of freeguestbooks.net and requested him to remove the 40K odd backlinks and he very kindly removed it. The WebmasterTools now shows 21,777 backlinks from this site. But since 2 months, the decrease rate of these backlinks is very slow, almost zero. Again, I had contacted the webmaster of freeguestbooks.net and he confirmed that there are no backlinks pointing to his site. I am also told that my anchor text is over-optimised... Total backlinks to my site as per WebmasterTools is only 24,937 out of which 21,777 are the links from freeguestbooks.net as shown in WebmasterTools. Can you suggest a way out to get back into google?


Allowing Google to index auto generated sub domains

I have a web application where each new customer using the application has their own unique subdomain. This allows them to link to the products they create on our site. If my website is `www.example.com` then my customers get the domain `customer.example.com`. These subdomains are auto generated when the customer sets up their account. What can I do so that Google will index these subdomains?


WordPress login broken when using WooCommerce and Theme My Login

I am running WordPress with WooCommerce and Theme My Login plugins. When a user registers on my site it sends them a confirmation email and then they can click to activate account. Problem is when the user goes to login they get an error of incorrect password. If the user uses the forgot password link and resets the password then they can login without any errors. What might cause this problem? Is the password being encrypted with the wrong method? I went through the registration process and checked the string in the php users table. Password in php table after registration:               $P$BF/gIt6dFfBBuNx6rP41Qv3i71TUie1      Password in php table after change password to same password:               $P$BxpByDbNU3vr3sytTOcbzttp1tOodH1      Do Theme My Login and either WooCommerce or WordPress use different encryption methods?


Does internal link in-page placement (up-down) effect crawl likeness?

I'm trying to encourage Google to crawl more of a specific dynamic section in my site which he's 'neglecting'. I have internal links from my more popular section to this section, but those are at the end of the page. Does the placement location (up-down) of such inner links make a difference when Google tries to focus his crawlers on the more important content?


Lost permission for anyone to access my websites

Yesterday I mysteriously lost the permission to remote desktop to my Windows 2008 server as Administrator. At the same time when trying to access my website I got a window up prompting me for a user name and password to view the website. Anyway, my hosting provider believe I've been hacked. Ok now, I have remote access, but what setting must I change in IIS to allow anyone to view the websites hosted on the server.


Facebook connect And Yahoo.. How and what exactly happened? Is there way to import facebook friend's email id?

I have seen that yahoo now enables their users to import facebook friend's email addresses into their yahoo addressbook. As far as i know, facebook doesn't allow any API to fetch email addresses of any user on external websites. I have also seen that Yahoo imports email addresses only when the friend's have chosen not to display their contact email to themselves only. Many people in the world trying to implement applications using facebook's API to import email addresses of friend's (Only those email addresses which are visible on user's facebook profile) but API calls always return NULL to their requests. So i would like to know what exactly happened between facebook and yahoo? Does facebook have provided any concessions to Yahoo's addressbook importer application to import facebook user's email addresses? Is there any working API/method/way available to fetch email addresses of facebook friends who have chosen to display their contact email ids on their profile with 1: only visible to friends, 2: visible to everyone privacy settings? I have also seen that, facebook API page clearly listen that email/contact_email field's can be fetched using FQL. Nevertheless there is no official explanation on this issue of returning NULL when email/contact_email is requested from any API call. Regards


Put files outside of directory, so none can access it (Apache, PHP, MySQL)

I have a file structure like this:               public/admin     public/some folder     includes/        I set up a sub-domain `page.mysite.com` and I pointed the directory to be `mysite.com/page/public/admin`. I thought that it would work ok, but it seems that it's not loading contents that are outside of admin (in this case target folder), so it can't see any files outsite admin. What could the problem be? P.S. I have a shared hosting, so I can access only Cpanel and FTP (just in case you know).


Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking

I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. Viewing my html page source doesn't show it because the number is printed with javascript. Do I need to make any other step or is enough to just put like button?


SEO sitemap submission

I always assumed SEO was simply a buzzword that meant "using content that makes sense". Obviously it gets a little bit more complicated than that, using realistic search terms in header tags and things, but that was a far as it got. I was speaking to someone today about this, and they said how there's a second aspect to web design. Submitting sitemaps to Google. A weekly sitemap submission to Google was a way to seriously boost rankings. Is this true, and how can this process be automated?


Email sent via Google via relayhost being marked as spam

Company email hosted by Google Apps. Company PBX in-house is Elastix. All voicemails received on the extensions of Elastix are supposed to be emailed by the CentOS server (Postfix) to the email address of the employee. Using relayhost on postfix, I am sending those emails through Google Apps (smtp.gmail.com), but some of these voicemail emails end up in the spam. Sending it through Google, and sending it to an email hosted by Google - yet there's spam. Email sent from the Google Apps interface - no complaints of it going to spam - just from the Elastix server. I've just asked our DNS domain guys to add spf records, but is that all that's needed? Some help please!


301 redirect from "/index.html" to root if index.html not exist

Can I create 301 redirect from "index.html" to root directory if file "index.html" not exist? For example: link "`http://example.com/index.html`" show "404 Error" page. I need 301 redirect to root directory: "`http://example.com/`" in .htaccess I add rule:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html      RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      but it doesn't work. Can you help me solve this problem?


nofollow links on jQuery interaction

Is it important to use `rel="nofollow"` on jQuery interaction links? `<a href="#" rel="nofollow">jQuery interaction link</a>`


Revamped Joomla site to Google search engine

I am about to upload a revamped site of Joomla (update from 1.5 to 2.5 + changes). I currently have a test bed subdomain that I am currently working on. In few days I am about to do the swap and replace the old site with the new one. I am worrying about Search Engines and specifically Google. The site currently has a very good rank (appears 2nd in the search), what actions do I have to take in order to be updated and preserve the rank? (except submitting the new sitemap I guess). It's not a difficult task but because I don't have the option to be wrong or mistakes to be done I an asking for a more "expert" advice.


Can a website require search engine robots to support cookies?

Sometimes I pretend to be a search engine robot to get access to "subscriber only" web pages, or just to get a plain and simple view of a page that isn't cluttered with moving animations and other irrelevant crap. Lately I have noticed that some web sites require cookies to be turned on, even if you are a bot. What is the purpose of this? Why would a search engine robot need to accept cookies? Or is this just because the guy who designed the web site screwed up?


Using Pragma header on HTTP 1.1

would like know your opinion about using Pragma header when script is called in HTTP version 1.1 I don't know is good to return both Pragma and Cache-Control or rather return only Cache-Control and at HTTP 1.0 return only Pragma ???


How to edit the pages on your domain on Godaddy?

I bought a domain from godaddy.com and I was wondering how to I edit the information on the webpage? Like html FTP and such. And sorry if this isn't on the correct stack website, but this seems like it would be the best to post this question on.


Why are we being twitter spammed?

This is a search relating to us: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/scirra We're getting a of of new accounts tweeting: `The Layers Bar - Scirra.com` Firstly this is not us doing it as we're quite proud of doing everything completely whitehat. Also this tweet doesn't make any sense, "The Layers Bar" seems to be referring to a manual entry of ours. They all seem to be new accounts with no followers and no prior tweets coming in like clockwork every hour.   * Does anyone know why this could be happening?   * Could this harm us?   * It it possible to find out the source of this? I should mention I'm hesitant to report them all as spam because it could look like we are the culprits.


What payment gateways fit my website?

I am building an image hosting website and users will pay for extra storage, this means that for example: each 1GB over the first 3GB, I will charge the user for some money per GB. I want to integrate in my website a payment way so that I can let the users pay through and also let me to collect these money later either getting them through ATM or to get it in my bank account. I can't user paypal because it is not working in my country Egypt. Can you advice me with a service and some tips about how users will pay and how I will get the money from.


Are there any online tools that can help me find problems with my website?

I can run lots of performance tools on my server, but what is with problems that are only visible from the outside? Are there any tools that can help me with this?


Handing back-link SEO value to another site

The company I work for hosts several websites - one of these is a UK brand that's been around for years, another of them is a bit newer and is basically a white-label/affiliate site that re-skins itself - the idea being that we can go to company A or company B and say "Hey, would you like to sell our products? Here's a free micro-site, just link to it from yours..." Some of the people who have taken us up on this are quite large firms and and as a result this affiliate site is now out-ranking our main UK consumer brand (we think due to the high quality back links). Our top brass aren't really happy about this and are asking if there's any way we can take the value of those back links and transfer them to our main consumer brand. Now, I personally don't agree with this ethically, but I have been asked the question and I honestly don't know the answer. If it helps, the affiliate site and the main consumer brand share a CMS, so the copy is the same. Is there any way of (as my managers have started describing it) me "juicing" one site from the backlinks of another using meta/canonical tags?


301 or 302 redirect for mobile/non-mobile pages

I'm setting up redirection for mobile/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the `?mobile=1` or `?mobile=0` flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is used, I always do a 301 redirect because the `?mobile=` links should not be indexed, just their targets. Is this a correct assumption? Additionally, there is the case of redirection by trying to visit the mobile link `/m` with a non-mobile user agent and vice versa. In this case I want to do a 301 redirect as well (mostly because it makes the code simpler), but I think it also makes sense to me semantically; the target URL for your user agent is the correct one. A coworker is insisting that `/m` visits by a non-mobile user agent should do a 302 redirect because the `/m` link is valid. However, the only way to make it valid is to either visit `?mobile=1` at the same time (which would already do a 301 redirect to `/m`) or to have something else on our website that sets the session to mobile, which is something we either rarely or never do. Google's documentation seems to indicate that it actually doesn't matter if you use 302 or 301 for mobile/non-mobile redirection (at least if you have the `Vary: User-Agent` header and/or `rel="alternate"` link specification; we currently have neither, though). My arguments for the 301 are:   * Simplifies the code a bit   * Non-mobile spiders will not index the `/m` link, so theoretically it should not show up for search results which spares non-mobile users an additional redirect when they visit the link (similar situation for mobile spiders/users) However, he does have a point about both of the URLs being valid. Which status code would be better to use in this case?


POST data to another form with php

I want to create a form on my page to get information this is easily done and the problem. I want to 'POST' information to my own php-page, creating a new id and saving the information to my database. And then this page should redirect to the external page via 'POST' with id, price and so on. The external page is a page to pay, so the customer should get this external site and should be able to use it like a normal page(maybe target="_blank"). **In Short** :   1. Customer provides information such as item to buy, purchase amount, shipping address etc.   2. Information will be saved into the database and will need to generate a new customer id.   3. Page redirects to external payment page, sending id, price, payment information via 'POST'. My problem is, how to redirect to the external page but sending custom information via 'POST'.


301 or 302 for url that changed but new page might exist in old url

I have pages for usernames. e.g. `http://mydomain.com/user/<username>` I'm trying to handle the case a user changes his username. What kind of redirect from old username url to new username url should I do? I would want a 301 to keep link juice but am concerned about what will happen when another user uses the same old username making the url live again.


Using Schema logo markup with SVG images

I've made a logo which is awesome and I've saved it in AI and SVG format. I wish to use the SVG file on the a site as the logo will appear many times all over the site and would be better than saving the logo in PNG format and having unnecessary server-side requests. Now, this works great using:               <svg id="my-logo" height="60" width="60"           xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" >       <g transform="scale(0.1)">         <image x="0" y="0" height="600" width="600" xlink:href="my-logo.svg" />       </g>     </svg>      Now the problem arises when using Schema logo markup. Using:               <svg itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" id="my-logo" height="60" width="60"           xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" >       <g transform="scale(0.1)">         <image itemprop="logo" x="0" y="0" height="600" width="600" xlink:href="my-logo.svg" />       </g>     </svg>      As I expected it fails w3c validation and I am greeted with the following error messages:   * Attribute itemscope not allowed on element svg at this point.   * Attribute itemtype not allowed on element svg at this point.   * Attribute itemprop not allowed on element image at this point. Now I know that W3C validation isn't an essential thing but I'd prefer to have a solution which does satisfy both Google and W3C. I'm sure that some W3C guru will be able to point me in the right direction, I'd perfer not to use DATA URI if possible as I know that could be one solution but correct me if I'm wrong or not DATA URI's are not-cachable.


Will Google AdSense punish me for having 100% width banner ads?

I'm using Google AdSense and I've read that they don't like people changing their Ad code. I'm using this code:                if ( adWidth <= 625 )      google_ad_size = ["100", "50"];  /* Banner (468 x 60) */      else if ( adWidth >= 626 )      google_ad_size = ["100", "90"];           document.write (      '<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;margin-top:45px;width:'        + google_ad_size[0] + '%;height:'        + google_ad_size[1] + 'px" data-ad-client="'        + google_ad_client + '" data-ad-slot="'        + google_ad_slot + '"></ins>'     );      I've added a margin-top and a width of 100%, now will Google punish me for doing that? I don't want to end up a few weeks after launch with Google banning my account.


Fake links cause crawl error in Google Webmaster Tools

Google reported Crawl Errors last week on my largest site though Webmaster Tools. Here is the message: > Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that return a > 404 (Page Not Found) error. Investigating these errors and fixing them where > appropriate ensures that Google can successfully crawl your site's pages. The Crawl Errors list is now full of hundreds of fake links like these causing 16,519 errors so far: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Gqs80.png) Note that my site does not even have a `search.html` and is not related to any of the terms shown in the above image. Inspecting sources for one of those links, I can see this is not simply an isolated source but a concerted effort: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8i9lP.png) Each of the links has a few to a dozen sources all from different, seemingly unrelated sites. It is completely baffling as to why would someone to spending effort doing this. What are they hoping to achieve? Is this an attack? Most importantly: **Does this have a negative effect on my side?** Could it negatively impact my ranking? **If so, what to do about it?** The few linking pages I looked at are full of thousands of links to tons of sites and have no contact information and do not seem like the kind of people who would simply stop if asked nicely! According to Google Webmaster Tools, these errors have appeared in a span of 11 days. No crawl errors were being reported previously.


Domain, Hosting and DNS management on 3 seperate providers - is this possible?

_**I wanted to know if its possible to do the following:_**   1. Buy Domain from GoDaddy.   2. Buy Hosting from HostGator.   3. Buy DNS Management from DNS Made Easy.


Running a Python CGI Web App off of a DVD

I have run into a rather unique situation. I need to deploy a web application that uses Python CGI on a DVD. No software can be downloaded onto the computer of the user. Does anyone have any ideas for how this can be accomplished?


I am 16 and want to learn how to develop websites (complex sites with video and members).. what language do you suggest I learn?

I am trying to get into programming for web development and PHP seems like a good language to use for that. I want to make complex sites with videos and member logins like a YouTube. I didn't know whether I should learn another language before I learn PHP or if I should just start with PHP. I have been trying to learn PHP from this book and have been having a difficult time starting. I just don't know what to do with the info in the book.


Remembering CSS left, top, right, bottom

When using CSS what little tricks have you done to remember (perhaps a saying?) the order of left, top, right, bottom when defining combined CSS attributes such as border, margin and padding. I'm forever forgetting and Google seems populated with crap like W3Schools.


Apache/ISS equivalent

I've always used Apache for all my web development work and I'm struggling to get my head around IIS. I've got an API that re-routes all requests to one particular file: 'api.php', how would I do the following in IIS:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^/.* /api.php      My server only allows web.config files to achieve this so I have no access to IIS manager, or anything of that nature. I'm using IIS 7.5.


301 redirected an entire website 4.5 months ago; still showing up in Google search results?

Consolidated two websites on December 9, 2013; a site wide page-to-page 301 redirect was implemented which redirects site A to site B Website A (the one being redirected) is:   * Still showing up in Google search results (the link properly 301 redirects to the new site)   * Still showing up in our site B Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) site links report as a top source of inbound links I don't know how to "jog" Google into recognizing that this site is gone; we do still have site B Thoughts:   * Site A still has a GWT entry, deleting this might help   * We could turn off the redirects... Any other suggestions/answers? **Updates:** I disabled the redirects, used the Change of Address tool and then reactivated the 301s The index for the nonexistent site is continuing to drop at a pretty steady pace (no indication that the Change of Address tool helped or hindered) Now if only I could get them to remove mention of the "links" from the nonexistent site to the main site in the main site's "Links to your site" report Considering disabling the redirects and allowing the old site to be truly "gone"


Can't Make Changes via FTP on my Ubuntu Server

I'm very new to server management, I literally just set this up for the first time a couple weeks ago, no idea what I'm doing. In order to allow WordPress to run updates, apparently everything needs to be owned by `www-data`, but if everything is owned by www-data, I can't FTP with the user `revxx14`. When I try, I can't make any changes (deletions, additions, updating files, nothing. I get permission denied errors across the board). Is there a way to give my user the same permissions as www-data, so that I'll be able to keep www-data the owner, but still be able to make changes via FTP? Thanks.


Moving blog posts from one Wordpress site to another - will Feedburner resend out old posts?

I'm moving Wordpress blog posts from one domain to another and I wanted to know if Feedburner will resend the old blog posts out to my subscribers when the transfer is made. If so, how to I stop Feedburner from sending out the old blog posts while ensuring that Feedburner still sends out only new posts?


How to show content for logged-in vs logged-out users?

We have a set of pages with the following urls:               www.mysite.com/info/page1.html     www.mysite.com/info/page2.html     www.mysite.com/info/page3.html      Each has a structure as follows:               ----------------------     |          A         |     |--------------------|     |  |                 |     |B |        C        |     |  |                 |     ----------------------     |          D         |     |--------------------|          A: is the "header" area     B: is a list of menu items which show a bunch of menus, sub-menus and the         currently selected sub-menu     C: is the content, shown depending on what is selected on B     D: is a common footer to all       Our current solution is to manage everything not as html files, but as entries in a database table and to generate the html page depending on the url sought... For example a mod_rewrite rule sends:               www.mysite/info/page1.html      to               showpages.php?url=page1      and that fetches the html for C from the DB table and shows the page properly. I want to break away from this model because it is VERY slow on fetching large pages ("C"). My problems are two-fold:   1. The above pages need to be shown to a "logged-in" user, in which case the header ("A") is dynamically created.   2. With a view on maintainability, I DON'T want several copies of the same code (whether html or php to float around). If I simply use pure html / js along with iframes I shouldnt have a problem displaying pages 1 to 4. However, I dont know how to manage the scenario when the user is logged in. * * * > Can you provide more info to help us understanding the problem? Are you > using a Content Management System? no its a custom php website > Are you using frames? actually we're not using iframes in our present setup, but am not averse to doing so if its makes sense in the ideal solution > How do you do the login now? we have the login form on the "header section" (A) and when the user is logged in, it customizes the header. > Why is it that your current method is slower than other methods, if the > content is the same? Our current system picks up the content "C" from a table. Since the content is rather large, it slows the page load. I'm trying to move the html content from the db to an actual file on disk. If i just had to deal with logged-out / anonymous users, i would have used iframes to display (A), (B), (C) and (D). And with javascript, navigated to a different page and change contents of (C). One more perteninet fact - I currently have a php script userheader.php which generates the html for both logged-in and logged-out users (ie "A").


Domain mapping / aliassing to subdomain

We have a VPS (cpanel/whm) for hosting several website, each site is created in subdomain   * one.domain.com, two.domain.com, three.domain.com, etc. now we want to have unique domain for every subdomain   * www.web-one.com -> one.domain.com, www.web-two.com -> two.domain.com, etc how to configure the domain masking/mapping/aliasing so when customer visit the url bar shows:   * www.web-one.com/folder/one.html instead of one.domain.com/folder/one.html


SEO: h1 with text vs. h1 with bg image and hidden text

Having an h1 with "real" text in it is just as good for SEO as having that h1 with an image background and the same text, but set to be indented to -9999px and ltr?


For good SEO does my company's name need to be in text on each page or can a logo suffice?

If I have a website that is for example MyTerrificBrand.com, then for good SEO do I need to have the words MyTerrificBrand (the name of the company) in the header as searchable text (on the top left, styled to be large and to stand out, of course) alongside the logo, or can I have purely an image containing MyTerrificBrand plus the logo? The reason for my question is that our graphic designer styled the "MyTerrificBrand" in a unique way that we can't approximate through the stylesheet, so we'd prefer to use an image for MyTerrificBrand plus the logo. But SEO is more important to us than a perfectly drawn company name. Amazon.com and eBay for instance use an image on the top-left containing their names, not styled text. Is that okay for SEO?


Same sitemap submitted for .com and .co.uk domain

Not to sure why I did this. But I submitted the same sitemap for our `.co.uk` and `.com` domain. Looking to put the `.com` domain on different hosting and create a new site for international customers using `.com` domain. Should I remove all URLs in Google Webmaster Tools for the `.com` domain, guessing this won't have a negative effect on `.co.uk` stuff and add _robot.txt_ to make sure the `.com` domain is not crawled?


What causes a website's alexa page-rank and traffic data to display highly regular sine wave patterns over a period of 30 days?

At first I wondered if it was due to the traffic difference between day and night, but that turned out not to be the case, since the period of rise and drop in traffic was about a week, not overnight. The website I'm looking at is this one (it's not mine). Looks weird, right?


Is website visited by search engines?

How can I find out that my website which is actually uploaded on webhosting for about two months is visited by search engines like google, yahoo and others? Which ranking sites should I regularly check to see how my web is in according to other websites?