Redirect/rewrite dynamic URL to sub-domain and create DNS for subdomain

I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain. Dynamic URL pattern:               http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?user_name=testuser      I wish to re-direct this to the corresponding sub domain:               http://testuser.mydomain.com/        1. How do I create a rewrite rule for this purpose?   2. How do I register DNS for sub-domain **without** using CPANEL? (I want to activate sub-domain when the user registers to the system.)


A page for each product variation or one page with multiple options?

The website that I work on sells a car related products. Many products will fit 20-100 cars. Currently each car is listed as a separate 'product'. This works very well on eBay, but I think the large number of similar pages is having a negative effect on the sites ranking. It seems to rank ok for very specific queries like 'BMW 5 series thule roof rack', but not well for 'Roof rack' - Which I guess makes sense. So a page for each car or a page for each real product?


550 “Overwrite permission denied” when editing a file via FTP

DreamHost recently moved my accounts to a new shared box, and now I can't edit files via UltraEdit's built in FTP client, which messes up my work flow! What did they do that this is not working now? It stopped working after they moved me. Here's the output from the FTP console in UltraEdit               10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 220 DreamHost FTP Server     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: USER nodebunny     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 331 Password required for ninjawww     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PASS xxxxxxxx     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 230 User nodebunny logged in     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: FEAT     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 211-Features:      LANG ja-JP.UTF-8;ja-JP;zh-TW;fr-FR;zh-CN;en-US*;bg-BG;ko-KR.UTF-8;ko-KR      MDTM      MFMT      TVFS      UTF8      MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;      MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*;      REST STREAM      SIZE     211 End     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: OPTS UTF8 ON     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 200 UTF8 set to on     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 "/" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 "/" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: CWD /dev/proj/nodebunny     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 250 CWD command successful     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 "/dev/proj/nodebunny/lib/Buffer" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 257 "/dev/proj/nodebunny/lib/Buffer" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: TYPE I     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 200 Type set to I     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: PORT 10,15,55,125,226,16     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 200 PORT command successful     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: STOR Buffer.pm     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 550 Buffer.pm: Overwrite permission denied


Wordpress - Too much information about SEO tags - archives - posts. Which is best?

**Point 1:** I have a front page which is dynamic because it gets all the latest posts that are rated. The question is: do I have to make these posts an `excerpt`, because that's better for SEO? **Point 2:** I have two pages where I have links on the left and right sides (widgets) that are pointing to posts. In the middle of the page, I have one post that has the content shown with his own comments and _tags_ beneath the post itself. The question: do I have to set a `nofollow` on these tags? And what about the links? If I click on a post link, it will bring me to a `single.php`, which has actually the same lay-out and elements as the pages I described at point 2. Will this be seen as duplicate content? **Point 3:** I have an alphabetic list of all my posts which are linking to the single page. Is this seen as duplicate content? Do I have to set a `nofollow` on the links? **Point 4:** I have author pages which have the last commented and posted posts and reactions of a person... Is this seen as duplicate content and do I have to add a `nofollow` link? There is so much information that I don't know which one is best or how to look at it. I would really appreciate it if someone can help me out with it. PS: if I generate a `XML Sitemap`, which of all has the highest `priority`?


How to separate data from subdomains in Google Analytics?

I want to split my data from different subdomains in Google Analytics. I know it's possible to do it using different profiles + filters, but when you have a ton of subdomains, it's almost impossible to maintain that setup. Is there another way? Currently I'm using this solution http://www.ericmobley.net/guide-to-tracking- multiple-subdomains-in-google-analytics/


utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range

I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc on that day. Ideally this information could be displayed in a visually unobtrusive manner at the bottom of the regular blog post. I can add this information through an rss reader display (e.g. I'm running a wordpress site, and can use embed-rss plugin to display the latest information from a twitter or github rss), but this does not let me limit the date range to activity from that day; instead always showing the latest activity. So, questions:   1. Is there a simple way to embed rss feed filtered to a certain date range on a post?    2. Does the RSS feed provide a stable list of all the history, or will I need to create static snapshots of this instead?   3. Can be done through the twitter and github APIs if not through a simple rss feed? Is there any app that already does this?   4. Other suggestions to approach this kind of thing? For instance, I can do something similar for my flickr activity using the flickr-gallery plugin's search feature, which gives me a scrollable set of thumbnails of photos matching certain search criteria in which I can set a date range to match that day.


Google webmaster tool is not updating my site related information

I am very thanks ful to google webbmaster since it suggested me many of the pages which were causing 404. But i am surprised why were this information still being shown even after one week of repairing the page links.


Creating a mobile website

I'm going to create a mobile version of a website. This is the first time I'll be creating a mobile specific website. What do I need to know? What do I need to be aware off? Good tips and resources requested! -- Sri


Optimizing with filtered results?

I'm finishing up development on a tourist information website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, among other things for an up-and-coming tourist area in Cambodia: http://www.gosihanoukville.com/dining/index.html Sections of the site that have listings are listed in a default order, and the visitor can choose to sort these listings on demand. There is also a section on the left of these pages that allow "filtering" of the results on the page. For a better example, on the restaurant page, there are filters for type of cuisine, location and budget. The cuisine filters at the top are the only ones that I want indexed - in case people search for "indian food in sihanoukville". The location and budget filters are just there for convenience, and could have been displayed with AJAX, but I wanted people to be able to bookmark them. What I've done is set the meta robots tags on the pages I don't want indexed as "noindex, follow", and "index, follow" on all other pages. I have, however seen people use rel="nofollow" in their anchor tags. Which is the better practice? Or is it better to have them indexed anyway despite having duplicate content? Thanks.


Backing up VPS and Database Servers for website

I currently have an "un-managed" (no help from hosting company) windows vps server. I am working on a good backup solution to return my site back online within a few hours. I am pretty comfortable backing up and restoring my database, however what is a good solution for backing up my VPS for easy recovery? Should I just use windows backup and create an image? I'm open to suggestions. Additionally, has anyone had to restore an entire VPS before? Is it reasonable to have it back up and running in a few hours?


Why does .htaccess not prevent a php script from accessing a file

I ran into the following issue: On a website I want to prevent "unauthorized" access to a set of .xml files - the user has to authenticate first. Now it would be possible for an authenticated user to type the URL of the file I don't want them to see. To prevent this, I created a simple php script that checks user authentication, then serves up the XML (with appropriate `Content-type` header). At the same time, I put the following in the `.htaccess` file in the directory with `.xml` (and other) files:               <Files ~ "(.xml)">     Order allow,deny     Deny from all     Allow from xx.yy.zz.tt (IP address of server)     </Files>      This did the trick - `.xml` files were not longer "directly accessible", even for an "authenticated" user. But here is the thing I don't understand: > If I leave out the `'Allow from'` line, the php script still manages to > access the `.xml` files. It seems that the `.htaccess` is completely ignored > when it comes to php. So my question is two fold:   1. Is this expected behavior?   2. If so, then what method would one use to prevent a php script from accessing a particular file (or group of files)? There is clearly a fundamental issue around `.htaccess` that I completely failed to grasp. Thanks for your insights.


What are the best practices for Nationalized SEO?

I am working on Internet marketing for one of the Website designing & development company in India which is located in Mumbai. So the website is performing quite well in local search places or up to state level in SERPs. But not with all major locations in my country, so my question is what are the best ways I have to stay on top of the SERPs.


Which service to choose when accepting online credit card payments on behalf of "partners"?

I am about to start a new business that will have the following structure: 1) I want to accept payments from my customers (let's call them partners) for services that I will provide to them; one of this service will be accepting payments by their customers on their behalf 2) Accepting payments on partner's behalf from their customers and sending this payment directly to the partner (after subtracting a small fee) Additionally, I want to have the option to send out email invoices as well as have a form on my website that collects credit card/billing data and sends it to a third party server for payment processing. I was wondering what type of service I should use for this type of business, as I couldn't find anything on this topic during my research. I saw services such as PayPal Website Payments Pro and Braintree Payment Solutions, but I am not sure if any of those would fit my needs. I certainly want to limit my exposure to chargebacks in cases where partner's customer will dispute the charges and at the same time, I want to be able to send partners their money promptly. Any help is greatly appreciated!


best practice for last-modified and created dates

I have a website with a handful (currently 3; I anticipate about a dozen when it's complete) of static html pages. I'd like to include "created" and "last- modified" dates in the pages for the benefit of visitors who arrive a week or a month or a few years from now. I expect anyone who cares to be viewing the source, so I could do:               <!-- created yyyy-mm-dd, last-modified yyyy-mm-dd -->      but I'd like to use something more standard (and elegant). I've found one reference to last modified (but only a mention in the text, not an actual code reference, so I'm not positive how to properly implement it) but not _created_. Is there a **proper** way to display both (or at least one) of these dates?


Google Goals process not working through similarly named pages

Well, I'm at a loss. I've ensured that my tracking script is in etc etc, and I've set up my goal and funnel path, but only the first step is ever being shown on the funnel. Goal URL: `/checkout/checkoutComplete/` Type: **Head Match** ... but should this be `/checkout/checkoutComplete/(.*)` and set to regex rather because there are parameters after the main part of the URL (I thought that's what head match was for) Step 1: `/checkout/` <-- required Step 2: `/checkout/confirm/` both the above are valid and correct URLs for my domain. But for some reason, the funnel visualization shows entries into the first step, then an exits count that matches the entry count, including `/checkout/confirm` - but it doesn't go on to the next step! Perhaps I'm doing something obviously wrong...but I can't quite see it? Also, semi-related questions. Making a change to the funnel, does it only affect new incoming data? And how often does it update? Thanks in advance for your help.


Need a CSS framework that has variables and "mixins"

I was using Less CSS but it creates too much duplication. Each HTML page I have includes 3 different stylesheets; two are common to all the pages (IE- support and 960 grid system) and the third stylesheet is a custom one made for that page. With Less CSS it was duplicating all the CSS code from the 960 grid system into the third stylesheet. All I need are variables and functions/mixins/classes...basically a way to put duplicate CSS code in multiple spots.


Best practice for scroll-up web page

As was pointed out in a question asked earlier, Google will not recognize when the DOM is altered via JavaScript after initial page load to start at the bottom and scroll up rather than down. Parallax landing pages and the affect on SEO Is there an alternative better way that can be considered for achieving the same affect and maintaining the most optimized and correct search results and SEO score?


how to handle foreign content on a blog (double content)

I'm quitely new to SEO and I don't know how to handle foreign content on a blog.   I am writing content for two different blogs. The subjects of these blogs intersect partially, so there are sometimes situations in which I like to post exactly the same entry on both blogs. On the other hand I often see blogposts with a note like "this post was first published on www.xyz.com".      I thought to avoid the problem with double content I could use a canonical link in both cases. But all I read about using it cross-domain supposes to still have the same website.      So what is the best practice to handle this, by avoiding   1. that the original site doesn't benefit from being the first-posted and   2. that the second site has disadvantages because of containing double content   ? **edit:** I assume the fact that google tries to serve different contents for given keywords. Sites which doesn't seem to be the original one of multiple found content are ranked down, based on the presumption the content was stolen or something else (this correct?). How to prevent this behaviour if content is legally doubled? Would the canonical-link be the right way or isn't there any, bercause it'd be against googles aims?


How does Windows 8 appear on Google Analytics?

I'm trying to figure out how many Windows 8 users are using my website. On Google Analytics, I don't explicitly see the number 8 anywhere in the top 10 Windows operating system versions. I don't believe that Windows 8 percentage is so low that it doesn't even show up. It must be miscategorized under another name. Which one is it? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TZzzl.png)


Compared to Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 10, what can't IE9 do?

If a website works in Firefox 4 and in Google Chrome 10, what could potentially cause that website _not to work_ (broken layout or broken JavaScript) in IE9? What limitations and differences does IE9 have, aside from vendor-specific stylesheet rules? _Yes, that is a painfully vague question_ — that's because I am not asking this question from the perspective of someone with a specific problem! I'm asking this question from the perspective of someone with a working website who does not have access to IE9. **Edit** I `+1`ed everyone. Thanks for the great answers!


How can I easily create web 2.0 buttons?

Is there a website or software I can use to easily make web 2.0 buttons? I really like this: https://github.com/imathis/fancy-buttons, but it's only for Ruby. Every time I design a new website, I need to go into Fireworks and tediously create the buttons by hand. Surely someone out there must have come up with an easy way of making new web buttons.


Live Website Monitoring Tool

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Live view of online visitors What is a good tool to monitor a website's traffic live? Is there something that shows a feed of people who is currently on your website?


CMS for a review site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Best CMS for review-type sites Hi, what's the better CMS/theme for a review site? It will be a site about movie reviews from editors, and visitors should comment the review. I'm looking for something simple to implement.


Any good SEO tracking apps out there?

I was wondering if anyone knew of any noteworthy SEO tracking web apps (either free or paid). I.e. i want to be able to track page rankings, rankings against keywords, trends over time etc. I've seen a couple, but most seem pretty amateur. I was hoping that there might be a gem out there somewhere? PS. I am aware of the google tools (webmaster and analytics). What I am interested in, is a web solution that will help me pro-actively keep on top of my sites SEO strategy, as well as pro actively alert me to opportunities to increase / enhance exposure.


I've built a new website using html5, should I have built in flash instead?

I am web developer. For a new project of mine I decided to built a very complex website using html 5. Having now looked at the final product I am not sure, should I have just used plain old flash instead? If there are any flash experts here, I'd love to hear your opinion.


Help with 301 redirect from subdomain to root domain

I need to forward existing subdomain links to the root domain as the subdomain no longer exists. I have tried so many different lines of code in my .htaccess file and can not get the redirect to work. The links to the subdomain look like: `http://sub.mydomain.com/dir/y99bb4` Can anyone suggest any code for me?


Allow user to share on Facebook anonymously: options?

I want to allow users to share memes anonymously with their friends. I am trying to figure out how this can be done through Facebook: are there any Facebook APIs which will allow users to share through a different profile, or anonymously altogether? e.g. I create a 'anonymous' profile, the user simply inputs their meme and selects all the friends they want to share with, and all that the friends will see is that a message has been sent by 'anonymous'. Is this possible? Alternative solutions?


Any ideas why Google not caching my site?

The site is www.books-for-children.com, developed in Wordpress CMS. It was launched about two months ago and still has not been cached by Google, which seems highly unusual. Any ideas where I might look for answers?


Domain transfers - handling the downtime

This is something that has arisen several times and we don't quite know how to handle it, all suggestions are welcome! We have a few different domains with other companies that we want to transfer to us. The problem is that these domains have successful websites and email working with several employees, which in turn is used heavily. We want full control of the domains and everything with it, so there's no chance of pointing a/mx records. We want to cut any other companies out of the loop completely. How can we transfer the domains to our isp, keeping downtime to a minimum. Can someone walk me through the process please? What's the best practice?


Magento Default Sitemap.xml

Is the default magento sitemap.xml optimized as is for ecommerce products? I'm thinking about adding image links as well. Is it worth time investing in this for SEO gains?               <url>        <loc>           http://demo.com/product.html        </loc>            <lastmod>2011-08-03</lastmod>            <changefreq>always</changefreq>            <priority>1.0</priority>     </url>


Platform to allow users to suggest and vote for ideas

I head up a support team for a software product. I am in the process of setting up a blog (Wordpress.org), a forum (PHPBB or maybe Vanilla), a means to view bugs (probably expose Jira), but would also like to allow our customers to suggest enhancement requests. Currently we have this as a 'contact form' via the blog, which feeds into a dedicated inbox, which the product manager reviews and may include some of these ideas into the product. However, I would like to give the clients more power/visibility over this. Have a look at ideas.arcgis.com. There are plenty of other similar sites as well.   * Users can suggest new ideas   * Other users can vote these ideas up or down (similar to Stack Exchange sites)   * Ideas that are voted highly will be given a higher priority over lower ones.   * We can report back on the # of ideas we implement, and potentially reject ideas with reasoning. **Has anyone seen any platforms (ideally free) which would replicate something similar to this?** I was half thinking of embedding Vanilla within a wordpress page, but need to look into it more.


Is Google Page Speed Service a competitor for CDN services

I've been googling around for a cheap CDN service and came across: http://code.google.com/speed/pss/index.html This seems to be a competitor to other CDN services, is this the case? Thanks


html5 tags for SEO

I've a question for you. Are now the new HTML5 tags, like               <header>,<footer>,<hgroup>,<nav>,...      ... really usefoul for SEO? Is google and other search engines considering this tags in the SERP?


Mailing List software/app recommendation

I'm looking for a simple, preferably free app for managing mailing lists. I'd like to be able to create groups (Users, Employees specifically). It should be able to produce good looking HTML emails. I'm on an PHP/MySQL server, so anything that's online/easy to configure with that would be great. However, I'd be willing to consider an option which is hosted elsewhere if it was affordable. Please only answer if you've used the software before and can truly recommend it. The two I've been considering thus far are PHPList and Newsberry.


Getting access to website files without access to the hosting account

I have been asked if I can rectify a `403` error on `www.kirrawe.com.au`. The site was developed and hosted by another web developer who can no longer be contacted. I have been in contact with the hosting company (DreamHost), but due to security issues, they can only forward my requests to the account holder (the developer), but can't compel them to reply. In this situation, is there any way to get access to the website files or will my client need to have a new site built?


How do Github Pages fare for serving static files?

I have a site that is composed only of static files. I just discovered how easy it is to host websites directly off Github. Any idea how do they fare in terms of latency, reliability, capacity...? In general - for static content only at the moment - are they "production grade"? How do they compare to say Amazon S3 in terms of pure latency and uptime?


How to edit name servers

I purchased a domain name for my website but the files are hosted some other place. The domain registration website show four name servers addresses. What are these. Can I forward my domain to a specific url by modifying these name servers.


Expunge deleted version of uploaded file

I'm a bureaucrat on Wiki site. The site has a number of deleted files, and I'd like to expunge them. For example, there are 27 files in the history of one particular file: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BEulY.png) There's no need for the extensive history; there's no need for the additional storage overhead; and there's no need to allow someone to revert to an old version of the file. I think I found a wiki article covering the subject at Wikipedia:Files for deletion, but it sounds like (to me) that `{{ffd|log=2014 July 23}}` will delete the current file and past files. And its not clear to me if `ffd` expenges the old files. How does one expunge the deleted files while leaving the current file in tact?


Home Domain router question

I'm hosting my own website and email server at home on my own network. I have ports fowarded and working for the most part. I'm currently using namecheap.com dns servers and foward requests to my IP. I do have dynamic IP from ISP but it only updates when I switch mac addresses on my modem but I sill have IP updater just in case it changes. I'm running my own router - Sophos Home UTM. I conceptually a little confused on my situation. Should the router use the domain of my website and email for example its example.com. This gives every computer localhost.example.com. Or should I leave it with default or nothing? Is this important having my router host name include FQDN so router.example.com? I want to add more servers(vm servers for other things) and be able to use subdomains to call on them from outside of my network. For example I have ports 80,443,25, and 143 to one server. I want to add another server for other stuff. I want to redirect it by subdomin and not have to use NAT foward something weird like this, example.com:9999. Any suggestions? If this isn't a site for this questions let me know where to go thanks for any help.


Wampserver VS XAMPP?

I would like to hear your thoughts on which would be better for beginners and easier to use and maintain in the long run. I'm going to build a website in MODx but I haven't started so I thought I would ask about this first.


What are the differences between creating a remarketing list in Analytics versus a remarketing list in Adwords?

Both Google Analytics and Google Adwords seem to have the capability of creating remarketing lists. If you opt for the Analytics option, you can then share that list with (only) Adwords. So are there any significant differences in functionality between the two options?


Self hosting of recaptcha-like system to digitise my uploaded books

From wikipedia > reCAPTCHA is a system ... that uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of > books while protecting websites from bots I have a lot of scanned documents that I'd like to convert, and would like to introduce a captcha on my website, so why not kill two birds with one stone? The reCAPTCHA project has it's own agenda though focusing on archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books. Does a similar project exist that I could host and thereby dictate the books/docs that are digitised?


Email a very large list of WordPress subscribers = fail (every single time)

I have tried using a number of plugins to email my 40,000 registered users on my WordPress-powered site, to no avail. I have tried Subscribe2 (seems to send some, but I have no idea how many) as well as a few Newsletter plugins. I either run out of memory trying to add 40K entries to the mail queue, or I error out trying to add 40K emails in the BCC of the email being sent. Is there anyone out there with a large subscriber-base that has found a successful solution? If so, please share.


is a merchant account a requirment for a website to take payments

I have had a quick look but couldn't see anything related. Basically, if we were to accept payments for events on our website, via paypal (essentially a Buy it now! button), as a business, do we need a merchant's account, or will a regular bank account be acceptable? I may have some confusion in terms. My understanding is you need a merchant's account to accept credit card payments, but as we are using PayPal, is this necessary? Thank you for any clarification. disclaimer - I've read What are some options for taking payments on my website? but it doesn't explicitly say if we require a merchant account or not. Thank you.


Domain Forwarding for SEO

![Domain Forwarding](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CXnT3.png) For SEO, is the type of forwarding provided by domain registrars (like what I have pictured above) effective? Specifically, will old-domain.com rank better for the keyword "new" (or whatever happens to be in the forwarded domain name)? If this type of forwarding is NOT effective, is there another approach that is?


Why is Yahoo bot hitting a page when my robots.txt file is configured to disallow all bots?

My robots.txt:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      A page two directories below the root is being hit by a Yahoo bot and getting a 404:               HTTP_REFERER: [empty string]     HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp/3.0; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) NOT Firefox/3.5     QUERY_STRING: [empty string]     REMOTE_ADDR: 98.137.206.112     REMOTE_HOST: 98.137.206.112     REMOTE_USER: [empty string]     REQUEST_METHOD: GET      How is this possible and how can I prevent this? WHOIS for 98.137.206.112


How to properly remove URL's from Google's index?

On some of our sites, we now have several thousand pages that dilute our website's keyword density. The website is an MVC site with SEO routing. If I submit a new sitemap with say only the 2000 or so pages that we want indexed, even though navigating to the diluting pages still works, will Google re-index the site with only those 2000 pages, dropping the superfluous ones? For example, I want to keep roughly 2000 of the following:               www.mysite.com/some-search-term-1/some-good-keywords     www.mysite.com/some-search-term-2/some-more-good-keywords      And remove several thousand of the following that have already been indexed.               www.mysite.com/some-search-term-xx/some-poor-keywords     www.mysite.com/some-search-term-xx/some-poor-more-keywords      These pages are not actually "removed" as navigating to these URL's still renders a page. Even though there are potentially hundreds of thousands of pages, I only want say 2000 to be re-indexed and retained. The others removed (without having to do these manually). Thanks.


Track user traffic source and display a slightly customized page?

I was wondering if there's a possibility to track where a user comes from e.g. AdWords or Referal or Facebook etc and based on this information to show a different page? For example it would be very useful to be able to display a different contact phone or email address on your contact page to users coming from AdWords. How do you do this? Thanks in advance, Alex


Domain Expired issues

We are facing a problem regarding the renewal of a Google Apps domain. Our domain is `badrealam.com` and it expired on 2014-02-07 as we mistakenly did not renew it. Now we are trying to renew it but unfortunately it's not working, however it shows 30$ in my balance as they want 10$ to renew it. Someone told me that you have to renew your hosting also which is on GoDaddy.


.htaccess redirect of domain name alias to main domain but must show up as the alias domain

I have the following in a .htaccess file:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.aliasdomain\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^aliasdomain\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.maindomain.com/subdir1/subdir2/index.html [R]      In a browser I want `aliasdomain.com` to access the `index.html` file and show up as `aliasdomain.com`. However it shows up as the full URL as follows: `http://www.maindomain.com/subdir1/subdir2/index.html`


I am located in a 3rdWC, does it matter for venture capitalism (US)?

Can one who lives in a third world country (with a promising project) go for a venture capital round with the likes of Ycombinator etc?


Why is my site being penalized by Google?

Our web site traffic has been dropped 90% for second time within recent six months. The first time some of pages with address niazpardaz.com/search dropped, the second time same pages with address niazpardaz.com/sa dropped and the whole website get penalty and its rank has been dropped too much. Our site is cleaner than our competitors and we review and respect all rules mentioned in Google guidelines but we didn't find any reason for this penalty and so in the future we can not prevent its re-occurrence.


Challenging nameserver problem

I really appreciate you reading this. I have spent close to 6 months putting my soul into creating my first ruby on rails app, and now my site is all buggered up SEO-wise and I'm really bummed. I'm going to try to (simply) explain what happened and I really hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance!! All this is chronological. My website is http://pineapple.io I deployed my app on **apache** , using **phusion passenger**. I examined webmaster tools like a hawk during my launch, to make sure my sitemaps/SEO was all good, updating properly and so on. Everything is good for about a week. I then notice _(after refining my title tags)_ that they haven't changed for a solid week, despite Google seeing my new updated sitemap daily. Up until then Google had been updating the index with my changes after only 12 hours- 2 days so I thought this was kind of odd but I was like "meh, whatever. it will happen eventually" I then look in analytics and see I get a hit for a certain keyword. I Google the keyword myself and low and behold. I see it in the index, but its indexed as this: ns2.deluxetracking.com This is one of my nameservers. I'm like what!! I Googled site:ns2.deluxetracking.com and I see now that ALL my pages are indexed there, and they're ALL UPDATED with the right meta titles/descriptions that I was waiting to see changed! Google had been updating this information instead of my pineapple.io domain. I talk to my host, and they told me that because I set a new document root with apache, that cPanel doesn't like that and.. I dont know the details but basically ns2.deluxetracking.com was showing an exact duplicate of my site. I had them fix this issue, so that when you go to ns2.deluxetracking.com it would show the proper default page for a nameserver _(Cgi-sys default webpage)_. I then realized that all my pages in Google's index would be broken now, and I didn't want that as I wanted all that fresh meta information to transfer over. So underneath the virtual host fix that my host did, I added another section which redirects EVERYTHING from ns2.deluxetracking.com/whatever/page over to --> pineapple.io/whatever/page This is how it is now. I then went into webmaster tools with the intent to add ns2.deluxetracking.com, and fetch as Google but then resubmit to index _(so it would see all my 301s)_. In order to verify my account I had to temporarily **break** my site again and remove the 301. After I verified, I fetched as Google bot, submitted to index and quickly re-enabled the 301's I waited for about 2 days, and now when i do site:ns2.deluxetracking.com, it actually has MORE results than it did, even WITH the 301. It used to have about 900 and now it has 1300 after I did that What gives? How can I fix this? I have several specific concerns:   1. **Why** would Google index something that is a different domain? Under **normal** conditions, how does Google **work** with a nameserver? I thought the entire point of a nameserver is just to locate an IP of the host, and then get a domain name _(the proper one)_ , and Google just uses that nameserver to locate the real site. Why is it actually **accessing** get requests on port 80 for a real web request to my nameserver? Furthermore, Why would it ever index that? Traditionally I never _(obviously)_ needed to supply a 301 redirect on a nameserver to have it not be indexed on all my other sites. So what is different now? What I'm saying is, on any of my other websites, if you visit ns1.deluxetracking.com you get the 'cgi-sys default webpage'. Google **knows** not to index that page because its a nameserver. So why did it suddenly choose to index whats on my nameserver THIS time? EVEN though my entire website showed up on that nameserver _(my fault)_ , I still dont know why it would ever choose to index that.   2. How can I remove all the existing SEO results for ns2. Will Google just naturally over time see my 301's and remove the old site from the index? I can't really use `robots.txt` because ns2 is a subdomain thats in use already somewhere, not to mention thats kind of complicated iwth virtualhosts to try and hack it so I can upload a `robots.txt`.


SEO for ecommerce site with no product description and large inventory

We are building a ecommerce with a inventory of about 6000 products, the problem is most of the products have the same description so we decided to keep description as `noindex` and make it available to users to prevent the issue of duplicate content. I heard that it will be a big impact if there is no product description how to tackle this problem, is this true?


Can a company take my domain away from me?

I have a domain which coincidentally is the same name of a company. Is there any legal way in which this company can take my domain away from me?


Which URLs produce Google Adsense revenue?

Is there a menu in Google AdSense that can let me know which URLs on my website are generating the most revenue?


Is it possible to invalidate cache when the referrer adress is different?

Suppose I serve an image and if someone visits from a forum then I want it to download that image. If they visit again from the same forum then I want it to use cache, but if they visit from another forum and reference that same image I want it go ahead and re download that image. Is that possible?


"404. That’s an error." when viewing from Google cache

My site is getting _404. That’s an error._ message when I click on cached from Google search results. This is the error message from Google:               That’s an error.      The requested URL `/search?q=cache:8kxLAgFrhZQJ:www.mysite.com.....&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk` was not found on this server. That’s all we know. What I did before I was getting this error is that about 10 days ago, I moved my hosting from _Ixwebhosting_ to _Gearhost_ (cloud based). I also added 301 redirect from `non www` to `www`. I have no idea why I am getting this error. Please advise what might be the reason if there is a solution for it. All of my pages are indexed by Google though.


How does this particular daniweb page get 208 pageview although there was no search volume for this keywords- usage get method arrays? daniweb page : http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/java/threads/378417 Search volume is none for - usage get method arrays. When I search in google keyword tool.


Is xCommenter really good for SEO?

I have heard of xCommenter and wanted to know if its really good for improving the SEO?


Copy website content from WebsiteA.com/file.html to WebsiteB/file.com every time interval

I want to copy a website from `Website A` to `Website B` every 10 minutes. Then with purple-include I want to do a transclusion and display it on `mywebsite.com/page.html` So the task is download `websiteA.com/file` to `websiteB.com/file` I figured out the transclusion part but I do not know how to copy a webpage from A to B. Are there any script for this or how can I do this?


Problem with user generated content

In general, what do you think is better in regards to adding content to a site, to allow users to add content to the site and put a flag button to report it if it doesn't fit with the site, or should only I add the content and remove that option? It will be a small site but I don't know if I'll manage to scan the site constantly or deal with the flags and on the other hand I'm worried that the site wont move forward because there will be lot less content, thoughts?


When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active? I can see warnings for Deprecated version, but when do we expect the new version to come alive.


Why aren't monospace fonts almost never used for base font?

I haven't come across any website that use monospace fonts as the base font for their websites. Why is that? Does the website necessarily look bad when you use monospace?


Can a registrar outage affect my website?

If my registrar has an outage and their servers go down for a while, will that affect my website. I'm not using any of my registrar hosting packages or name servers, I simply have a few domain names registered with them that point to my actual hosting provider. Based on my current understanding on how these things work I believe that an outage at my registrar will not affect my websites at all, but I'd like to hear this from someone with more experience in this field.


How to include/install mod_proxy_http.c on JustHost

I'm using a service that requires a URL to be sent to their site so that it can return an HTML snapshot to Googles crawlers. In their .htaccess code it has the line               <IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>      and it doesnt make it past that statement (implying that I dont have that module installed/enabled?) But the service says that most servers should have that installed. I tried contacting JustHost but havent received a response yet so was hoping you could help. I dont know much about this stuff so I dont know where to begin but on JustHosts cPanel it doesnt seem to let me into their httpd.conf which is where most resources are saying to fix this. It does however let me add things to the "Apache Handler" but frankly I have no idea how.


Google Webmaster Tools is showing incorrect warnings - blocked by robots.txt

I'm getting a warning when submitting my sitemap to webmaster tools it saying that my pages are blocked by `robots.txt` when they are not. Has any one come across this or a way to resolve this before ? Here is the error message: ![webmaster error](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BFP97.png) Here is my `robots.txt` file:               User-agent: *     Disallow:     Sitemap: http://mydomain.co.uk/sitemap.xml


How should I create sitemap of a site which goes live with thousands of pages?

We are working on an education site and have custom website built on wordpress. One component of site is blog posts and pages, sitemap for which gets built by sitemap plugin every night. Another component is the college pages and we went live with this section 2 month back. To build the sitemap for these 8000+ pages , we wrote a program and created a sitemap lets say abc.xml. Then we submitted the sitemap to google. After 2 months, I can see that the google acknowledged the submission but never indexed these 8000+ pages. 561 indexed pages are from our blog post and pages. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rd4wt.jpg) I guess the mistakes we did was that we created the sitemap of 8000+ links and submitted when we should have done it in piecemeal basis. 2nd mistake I guess is that we do not update the abc.xml sitemap regularly which we thought of doing once all the pages were indexed. What is suggested a) to fix this problem b) and how to get the pages indexed ?


Does duplicate title tags with and without www hurt SEO?

For my website, I own `https://www.example.com` and `https://example.com`. (Currently, `http://example.com` redirects to `https://www.example.com`.) I recently had an audit of my website and it reported that `https://www.example.com` and `https://example.com` are duplicate title tags. **Of course they are** - because one redirects to the other! **Does this really hurt my SEO??**


PHP Include meta tags

A website I'm currently working on is http://www.troubi.com . Please don't care to look at the source code. If I validate the website through the w3cValidator a lot of errors occur all due to "invalid" meta tags. ( http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2etroubi%2ecom%2f ) If you look at the website's source you will see that everything in the meta region looks perfectly valid, and that's the curiousity. Now comes the point, in Firebug it just looks like if all the included meta tags were just moved to the `<body>`! A screenshot from Firebug: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lUZ5c.png) For reference, this is the meta file that gets included: http://www.troubi.com/feature/meta.php


Default DNS records with WHMCS + cPanel/WHM + NetEarthOne

I use the billing system WHMCS to automatically send invoices and use it's auto-setup functions. My control panel is cPanel/WHM. I use NetEarthOne to resell domains. cPanel/WHM and NetEarthOne are both fully compatible with WHMCS. I asked my host: > If a user buys a hosting package and a domain name, what are the standard > DNS records? Does the client have to set them up manually? They didn't understand that, so I asked: > If a user buys hosting package + domain name, do they have to setup the > domain name to point to the hosting package manually? They said: > If you use some billing system like WHMCS, the account for this order should > be created automatically as well as DNS zone for this domain. No need to > make any additional changes. I replied: > Interesting to know. Yes, I'm using WHMCS. I don't need to setup something > in LogicBoxes or something? (LogicBoxes is the control panel for NetEarthOne) They said: > No, you do not need to do this. Could someone please confirm this?


Tracking Traffic Through a Certain Page

I'm looking for some help with the Google Analytics Behavior Flow. I want to track all the traffic through a section of our site that ends up going to another particular section of my web site. Any advice on how to get this information.


How to download the audio from my own YouTube videos that are on YouTube?

I have some YouTube videos on YouTube. Is there a way to just get the audio from them? I am able to get the mp4 format video download. If I can't get the audio directly, how could I get the audio-only file from the mp4 file? Thank you!


Structured Data for dynamic pages and Webmaster Tools

I have a catalogue with more than 150000 (150k) unique single item pages, each with schema.org set up for titles, descriptions, images, prices etc. These pages are dynamically built through a unique ID in the URL. Unfortunately this includes out of stock items and "old" items where some or all content required for schema.org may be empty. This results in error flags raised in Google Webmaster Tools. What would be a better approach to tackle this catch-22?   1. Fake schema.org Data (i.e. Set price from NULL to "0.00"), which is NOT the correct price, suggesting the item is free of charge.   2. Flag the page as noindex (which may be index'ed one day and noindex the next to be index'ed a couple of days after again)   3. Set a 301 to another page.   4. Set a 302 to another page. As it stands now, I have approximately 18.000 pages indexed with schema.org according to Google Webmaster Tools. I have the feeling that the less errors I receive caused by missing schema.org for already indexed pages, the faster Google lists the outstanding ones. Any ideas on what the best practice would be for such a scenario?


Aligning images with text

I'm having trouble aligning an image with text. I want my image on the left, and the text inline on the right, centered vertically to the image.
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      Right now, the text hugs the top of the container. How can I center it vertically to the middle of the container?


Combine redirect to naked domain and point existing content to /blog

I think the .htaccess setup for this ought to be fairly straightforward, but I'm having a hard time with it for some reason. I've just completed the migration of a WordPress single site installation to a MultiSite setup, and everything went swimmingly. Now, though, I need to redirect all the original blog posts to `/blog/<post>` (because WordPress enforces that on MultiSite). I also recently migrated everything to the naked domain. This in and of itself wasn't a problem – until I added in the `/blog/` component. Here is what I have for the naked domain redirect (which, as noted, works fine):               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]      I've tried a number of things for the `/blog/` redirect, but it's continuing to throw me. It seems like it should be fairly easy with `RedirectMatch`:               RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*/?)$ http://<my-site>/blog/$1      The problem, of course, is that this expression then captures `/blog/` and promptly heads off to `/blog/blog/blog/...` I run into the same problem using another `RewriteCond`/`RewriteRule` pair, and when I tried to work around it like this:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:(www\.))?(.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(?<!(blog/))(.*)$ http://%1/blog/$1 [R=301,L]      The result was a redirect loop (I'm not seeing what's causing it, but my head is obviously not processing the regexes correctly this morning). It seems to me like `RedirectMatch` is the way to go anyway; I just need to make sure not to capture `/blog/` itself. **Edit:** I totally forgot about the `!` part of the rule; should I simply be starting that `RewriteMatch` with `!^blog`?


Using .htaccess to set a cookie and 301 redirect

I currently have in my _.htaccess_ :               RewriteRule ^$ http://chfmaine.com/ [CO=moved:yes:chfmaine.com:1/,R=301,NE,NC,L]      I was basing this off of this post. That's a lot more than I need but the setting of the cookie should be the same. Maybe I am misunderstanding the domain part of the cookie. If I set it to `CHFmaine.com` shouldn’t that be where it works? I tried adding the cookie after the 301. Ether way the 301 works but no cookie is passed. This is redirecting from `maine-horse-trails.com` to `chfmaine.com`. I have 23 of these for all the different pages that were on the old site. Anything landing at this `.htaccess` will be redirected and the cookie should be set. So if there is a way to first pass the cookie to anyone then proceed onto the matching rewrite that would be helpful. But if I can get this way to work I dont mind using copy and paste to get it on all the possibilities. and I do not want to pass any queries in the URL. My question is, what am I doing wrong here? Why can I not find this cookie after a successful redirect? And is there a better option?


Configuring Apache 2.2 for Python web app in subdirectory

I have been assigned a web server to administer, and I have to deploy a web application I wrote on it. This application is mostly a single page in JS + HTML, but it has a little form to accept submissions from users, and there is some simple server side code to handle them, written with Python and the Flask web framework. The web server is Linux Ubuntu 12, I am using Apache 2.2, and Python, Flask and mod_wsgi are already installed. Let's imagine that the web server's URL is www.company.com; my web application should be served at www.company.com/webapplication. The URL my web page uses to post user submissions to the server should be www.company.com/webapplication/submit. The web application is in /home/someuser/web/webapplication. Here's the directory structure:               +-/       +-home/         +-someuser/           +-web/                -> All web apps on this server go here             +-webapplication/    -> Location for www.company.com/webapplication               +-html/            -> HTML and JS files               +-app/             -> Python code                +-logs/            -> Well, logs, obviously               +-wsgi/            -> The WSGI file for this web application      Complication: there will be other, different web applications I'll have to write and deploy later on on that same server, at other subdirectories, for example www.company.com/webapp2, www.company.com/anotherwebapp and so on, that will use different frameworks, such as Django or Tornado. I left the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf untouched and put this file in /etc/apache2/sites-available, starting from some examples I found online. Here it is, changing bits here and there for security:               <VirtualHost *:80>         # Configure virtualhost defaults         ServerName www.company.com         ServerAdmin me@company.com         DocumentRoot /home/someuser/web/webapplication/html         <Directory /webapplication>             Options FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride None         </Directory>              <Directory /home/someuser/web/webapplication/html/>             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews             AllowOverride None             Order allow,deny             allow from all         </Directory>              # Configure WSGI Listener         WSGIDaemonProcess webapplication user=someuser group=users threads=5         WSGIScriptAlias /webapplication /home/someuser/web/webapplication/wsgi/webapplication.wsgi         WSGIScriptReloading On              <Directory /home/someuser/web/webapplication/app>             WSGIProcessGroup webapplication             WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}             Order deny,allow             Allow from all         </Directory>              # Configure Logging         ErrorLog /home/someuser/web/webapplication/logs/error.log         LogLevel warn         CustomLog /home/someuser/web/webapplication/logs/access.log combined          </VirtualHost>      And this is my WSGI file:               import sys     sys.path.insert(0, '/home/someuser/web/webapplication/app')     from DataSubmissionServer import app as application      where DataSubmissionServer is a Python file in /home/someuser/web/webapplication/app. What happens with this configuration is this: my web page is displayed at www.company.com, taking over the home page on this server. Using the form to submit data gives me a 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR. How can I fix this configuration?


How to earn high quality DoFollow backlinks?

I have a personal blog regarding How to Blogging. I would like no the ideas that how do i get dofollow backlinks to my blog? Is there any fast ways to get backlinks? Some webmaster says that edu., org, gov. Backliks are high quality. Is is true? I hope for your right information.


Facebook like button for a Facebook feed item

Here is what I do: When the admin of a website i'm creating adds a new 'news' item to his website, it directly posts the same item on the Facebook 'fanpage' of the website. This is done by an Facebook app with the permissions to post an item on the Facebook fanpage. So far so good. I'm getting the new post id from the facebook graph. Here is what I want to achieve: I'm adding a 'like' button on the original website, but when this is clicked it should be referenced to the same post item on the facebook page. So if someone likes the news post on the website he should also like the referencing facebook feed post. Which is exactly the same. Can this be done? I've been playing around with the href etc of the like button, without any success. When I hit the like button it likes the url given, but is doesn't recognizes that this is a feed post. Any idea? Thx in advance.


Advertisement system with allowed click encouragement

Is there any advertisement system (like AdSense) that would allow me to encourage the visitors on my page to click the ad? The pay doesn't need to be as high as in AdSense, it's only important that I'm not braking the rules by doing so.


How do I see total "Sessions" for certain pages on Google Analytics?

On Google Analytics, I can use the Behavior tab to see the details of my pages and how many Page Views and Unique Page Views they generated. I want to know if there is a way to select a number of pages and see how many unique Sessions those pages had. For example, if I myself visited a few pages from my site, this is how Analytics currently shows it:               Page            Page Views    Unique Page Views     -----------------------------------------------     /index.html     5             1     /about.html     2             1     /contact.html   1             1     -----------------------------------------------                     8             3       There's no way to know all of this was generated by 1 session. How can I possibly do this?


html/css vs CMS

I am currently a CS student and an aspiring programmer/web developer. I am wondering whether it is worth taking the time to master html and css to make websites when these CMS services/wysiwyg editors (wordpress, squarespace) seem to be becoming more and more functional. Does anyone think these publishing services might eventually make the need to design websites from raw code unnecessary? If not, please explain why. If designing a website eventually becomes as simple as using Photoshop I would much rather invest my time in programming languages.


Having a domain with the name Google in it

I have a domain name "GooglePlayStall.com". I want to know, will Google penalize me for using their name in domain? I want to make this site as a "Fan version" of "GooglePlay". I will pick popular apps of "Google Play" and will describe the application (its uses etc) in the post and at the end of each post there will be link to the app at Google Play. Is this safe? Should I go for it?


What are Mozilla compatible Agents in Google Analytics?

When I create a pivot table showing the number of visits for each type of browsers and regions, here is what I obtain: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8mEeu.png) As you can see, regions such as `Northen America` the number of visits corresponding to `Mozilla Compatible Agent` represents a significant percentage (18% in that case). While doing some research on the net, I came across this article on `SEOmoz` which talks about a bug related to `Mozilla Compatible Agent`. Can someone with experience in GA tell me: **Q1: Can I trust figures under the`5\. Mozilla Compatible Agent` column?** **Q2: How can I break down those figures to have more specific information on the type of browsers?** **Breakdown for`Mozilla Compatible Agent`** Here are the totals per agent: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ctVIH.png) And here are the totals per device: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CzS6k.png) As you can see nothing obvious there as with some OS (e.g. Android) you can actually use different browsers. I just find it annoying that we can't get the exact breakdown per user agent string when clicking on `Mozilla Compatible Agent` (all you get is a line showing `5.0`). I guess I can at least conclude `Mozilla Compatible Agents` are mobile devices.


Does Google award less importance to each keyword on a domain if there are more keywords?

If there are several pages on a domain, and they are optimized for different keywords, will google award less importance to each of them than if there was only one prevailing keyword on the whole domain?


Photoshop, slice, Dreamweaver, web?

So I am playing around with Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I have created a site layout, and have used the slice function on it. Next, I saved as html & images. In Dreamweaver, I open such html file and I fill the page with content, links, etc. I have a website and everything, and I would like to use my newly created html page on it. But, obviously, if I copy & paste the html to my website it won't work because it will lack the images. But two things: I can't find the images, and apparently they are a lot. I am sure I am doing a great mistake regarding the images. Can someone help me?


Problem with getting footer down

I used the method described in this article to get my footer down. Worked beautifully, except it floats ~3 pixels above the bottom of the page: http://nclabs.org/screenshots/1295742373.png How can I fix that? Full HTML: http://nclabs.org/index.php   Full CSS: http://nclabs.org/includes/layout-global.css   IE-only CS: http://nclabs.org/includes/ie.css


Can we use genesis framework for free?

First of all, I know that Genesis framework is paid framework. But many bloggers are using it for free because paypal is not supported in their country. Genesis framework is under GPL (General public licence) which means that anyone can redistribute it for free. I found many bloggers giving it for free but is it safe to use it for free?


What do I do if a user uploads child pornography?

If my website allows uploading images (which are not moderated), what action do I take if a user uploads child pornography? I already make it easy to report images, and have never had this problem before, but am wondering what the appropriate response is. My initial thought is to:   * Immediately delete (not just make inaccessible) the image   * File a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children with all information I have on the user (IP, URL, user-agent, etc.), identifying myself as the website operator and providing contact information   * Check any other images uploaded by that IP user and prevent them from uploading in the future (this is impossible, but I can at least block their account). This seems like a good way to be responsible in reporting, but does this satisfy all of my legal and moral responsibilities? Would it be better _not_ to delete the image and to just make it inaccessible, so that it can be sent to the National Center for Missing & Exploted Children, the police, FBI, etc?


Is there a way to mark content as random?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there any way to have search engines not index a certain section of a > page? **Is there a way to mark a section of a webpage (div) so that it is not considered for ranking?** What I am seeing is that sometimes a page ranks for a keyword which is not permanently on that page but only there randomly or semi-randomly. For example, a div may show a random image, or the most popular item or article for that day, or simply a random quote. It gives something interesting for recurring visitors but when the enclosing page ranks for keywords which appeared in those sections (and may no longer appear) is feels less than ideal.


Adding RSS/ATOM feed for a completely static web site

I am helping a friend to bring a very large, completely static web site out of the stone age. One thing I'd like to add immediately is a RSS/ATOM feed. He does not like working with any kind of CMS. He makes his pages using a Dream Weaver template, then uploads it and manually updates some pages to link to the new content. His site does very, very well in search engines, but he's not quite engaging new visitors who would probably put him in their reader. Is there something I can install that allows him to easily / manually add new items to a feed? Perhaps something that if given a link could fetch a content excerpt? Searching around yielded hundreds of things that might work, but many from 2000 or prior that have not been updated since. Language is not critical, but PHP/Python would be ideal. I really need something self hosted. **Edit** The flow of this should be, webmaster makes a new static page, uploads it, links to it .. now some mention of that page should exist in the RSS feed. Ideally, the webmaster could just provide the link to the new page, and the title with a short excerpt would appear in the feed. **Edit** Perhaps even something that just scraped title / excerpt from comment tags, i.e. :                     I don't need a full blown parser, just something that makes it easy for someone with minimal skills to maintain a feed on a completely static site.


What do you think is a possessional looking font for a web application

I am creating a website / web application where companies can do there accounting. It is sort of a alternative to the regular desktop accounting program. I want the application to have a look and feel of a normal desktop application, and not of a traditional websites. What kind of font and font-size do you think comes close to the traditional desktop application. I am styling in CSS.


Content Optimization only?

There are tons of discussions around tips&tricks to improve Search Engines "ranking" and SEOs. If I concentrate only on the content* of the website will there be consequences on the pages' rank by letting down search engine optimizations... Or third party SEOs are a " _must have_ " required by search-engines in order to be competitive regarding the other websites in the same category? (*) The Focus is 100% set on the quality of the content with precise keywords in meta tags, clean design, regular articles updates, clean URLs and highly filtered external links leading to pages on websites dealing on the same,or related subjects.


How could a web developer go about offering free hosting to clients that buy a website?

Lots of web design companies offer a year free hosting service when purchasing a website. How do they offer this service? Do these companies use their own server to host sites or do they buy a years hosting from somewhere and use that? I understand that not all companies would use the same method, but in general, how would it be done? Thanks for any answers :)


Calculating payment: what kind of rounding should be used?

There are several different methods of rounding. When developing a website that requires calculating a payment, between promotional codes, sales tax, credit card processing fees, it's possible end up with a total that results in a fraction of a penny. What kind of rounding should be used when converting the total to two decimal places?


Where to store project resource files?

You are working on a website for a client. He (the client) sends you a bunch of MS Word documents with text that you have to use in the website. Where do you store them? My approach would be to store them on my local server along with the source files for the website - in a folder named "res" (for "resources").


Backlink anchor text and Local SEO

If I have a business in, say Tampa Florida, and we offer irrigation services, and I want to create some backlinks for a SEO campaign, should I use "Tampa Florida Irrigation Services" as my anchor text? Or should I just use "Irrigation Services" and let Google figure out our location by our Google local directory listing (that I hope would associate with the web site)?. "Irrigation Services" here is just a sample keyword. It could be any other one, but in general, would you use the location as part of the anchor text? I really hope not, cause there are just too many ways to express the same location.


Google Webmaster Tools average position?

I see that my site's average position is 7.0 for a certain search query. However, it is kind of impossible for now. And when I search that query, I cannot find my site even in the first 10 pages. So is there something I misunderstood about the average position?


Town Of Pixels - Getting Traffic

I need some inputs and feedback on one of my application which i released a week back. Its name is Town of Pixels (http://www.townofpixels.com). Its majorly for designers, photographers and artists who want to showcase their work in a personalized way. Now i have a concern. I have done nothing to get much traffic. So my google anaytics shows poor results. How can i improve this. I have taken care of SEO upto my knowledge. Please help me with some tips of how to move forward and also some feedback about the application. Thanks, Abhishek


My site does not get aproved by Adsense. Issues: Unacceptable site content

I've submited my website to adsense and after 5 days i got this email: > Hello, > > As mentioned in our welcome email, we continue to review your AdSense > application once AdSense code is placed on your sites. As a result of this > review, we have disapproved your account for the following violation(s). > > Issues: > >   * Unacceptable site content > > > * * * > > Further detail: > > Unacceptable site content: Your website contains content that we do not > allow at this time. Please review our policies > (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies) for a complete list of site > content not allowed on webpages. > > * * * > > To update and resubmit your application, please visit > http://www.google.com/adsense and sign in using the email address and > password you submitted with your application. Our specialists will review > your account for compliance with our program policies, so please make sure > to resolve all of the issues listed above before resubmitting. > > For more information, visit our Help Center: > http://www.google.com/adsense/support/as or search the AdSense Help Forum, > where a community of publishers shares AdSense best practices: > http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense. Representatives of Google > AdSense also participate in discussions. > > Regards, > > The Google AdSense Team Unacceptable site content, what? My blog is hosted on blogspot: ... and i don't really understand why it is not approved. Can somebody help me? Thanks in advance...


Favicon will not show up... Searched other questions, no answers

My favicon will not show up. I have searched the site for similar questions and I do not see where I am going wrong. Here is my tag:               <head>     <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"  />      Do you see anything wrong here? I have my favicon.ico in the correct directory. I am testing this locally in incognito via google chrome.


Where does the Google `site:` operator for site-specific searches get its information?

I have read in many places that one should use Google Webmaster preferably to the `site:` search operator. However, I would like to know where the `site:` operator gets its information from? Here is my situation. I have imported a new blog on Blogger and tried to have the pages added to the index. The problem is that Google Webmaster's index status is updated once per week --too slow for me. Right now, it says no pages have been added to the index yet. But, when I search `site:trovare-parole.blogspot.com`, it returns plenty of links. So does it mean Google has indexed some of my pages yet (and the index status is late) or not? How should I interpret the result of a site search?


Configuring http://mail.example.com

Can I redirect the URL `http://mail.example.com` into webmail similar to `http://webmail.example.com`?


What Software Does Wikibooks Use?

I know they use MediaWiki but do they use any specific extensions that allow them to have hierarchies of pages/etc?


getting the user back where they came from with mod_form_auth

Using the mod_form_auth module in Apache HTTPD 2.4.3, I am looking for a way to have the user redirected to their original desired target after completing a login. That is, if I have a               <Location /protected>        ... form auth config here     </Location>      the user might browse to /protected/a, or to protected/b. In either case, they will be presented with the login form. However, as far as I can see, I must specific a single 'success' URL. I'm wondering if I'm missing some Apache feature that would allow me to, for example, cause the redirect to the login form go to something like:               https://login.html?origTarget=/protected/a      via some syntax on the `AuthForLoginRequiredLocation` statement?


Compare 3 or more date ranges in Google Analytics

Is it possible to compare 3 or more date ranges in Google Analytics? It's obvious how to compare 2 ranges. It would be great to see additional ranges - seeing the data of 6 months overlaid - seeing 3 years compared on the same chart etc.


Choosing a subject to create a site for

For 6 years I'm working as web developer and I would like to finally create my own site. I thought I have everything needed: programming and administration skills, found a good designer, own servers and understanding how to operate site. But I've missed very important (or the most important) point: how do I find a subject for my site? My hobby and my work are the same: IT, but I don't want to create just another tech blog or news aggregator, I want something different. First I thought things like Google Trends or Google top 1000 could help, but I've got lost in thousands of options I can't see them all (I actually can, but it'll take at least a couple of month). So my question is: how did you start? Where did you get the idea?


Is Google App Engine secure enough for financial applications?

I am wondering whether Google App Engine is secure enough for financial applications? This would involve storing sensitive information, access to users' funds, etc. Are there any applications like that already running on App Engine?


How do I get Google to index two URLs that differ only in the value of a URL parameter?

I have a site which has variable ID's which bring up different content For example:   * `http://example.com/university.php?id=3`   * `http://example.com/university.php?id=4` Technically these are two different pages which ideally I would like google to index separately (and rank for terms according to the University) What is the best way to go about doing this?


Port numbers appended to anchor tags

I've built a static site. Locally, when I serve the content with `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` everything behaves normally, but when I copy the HTML onto the server and browse the site at the server's URL, some links will have a port number appended to the domain. For example: `url.com:84/path` where the correct path is `url.com/path`. The port number is usually different, always between 81-85. It is an Apache server. I'm not experienced with web server configuration, and I'm not the admin of the server. Let me know if there is more information that can help solve my problem.               ~> cat /etc/*release*     SuSE SLES-8 (i386)     VERSION = 8.1     UnitedLinux 1.0 (i586)     VERSION = 1.0     LSB_VERSION="1.2"     DISTRIB_ID="UnitedLinux"     DISTRIB_RELEASE="1.0"     DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="UnitedLinux 1.0 (i586)"


Apache HTTPS ProxyPass certificate location

I'm trying to set up an Apache server that uses ProxyPass to pass HTTPS requests on to another server. Let's call the proxy server ALPHA and the target server BETA. ALPHA does not run HTTPS, but BETA does. I first tried using this virtual host specification on ALPHA:               <VirtualHost *:443>       ServerName mysite.com       ProxyPass / https://192.168.1.105/   # BETA's IP address       ProxyPassReverse / https://192.168.1.105/  # BETA's IP address       ProxyPreserveHost On       ProxyTimeout 600            SSLProxyEngine On       RequestHeader set Front-End-Https "On"       CacheDisable *     </VirtualHost>      But when I tried this, Apache complained saying, "[error] Server should be SSL-aware but has no certificate configured [Hint: SSLCertificateFile]". I had to copy the SSL certificate from BETA to ALPHA and add these lines to the virtual host specification on ALPHA:                 SSLEngine on       SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/ssl/private/BETA_private.key       SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/crt/BETA_public.crt       SSLCertificateChainFile /usr/local/ssl/crt/BETA_intermediate.crt      Now the system works. But I have a feeling that I have done something wrong or unnecessary. I have the web site's private key and certificate lying on both ALPHA and BETA. Is that necessary? Should I have done it differently?


unexpected url parameters added by 3rd party browsers

I have a static html website. And I am receiving many incoming visitor, which are adding parameters to url               "?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0"     "?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0"      is it wechat or another website that automatically add these ? Or is this a bug ?


Cookie security risk between primary domain and a CMS on a subdomain

Without making the question too general, I am looking to discover the specific risks associated with cookies between my primary domain hosting HTML content only, to a subdomain that is hosting Hubspot, a Web-based CMS. Consider I have the following sites:               //Main site - uses HTML only, no server side languages for security     example.com          //Uses Hubspot and has Hubspot associated cookies, PHP etc.      downloads.example.com          //Our central order processing and management system (the key asset) - uses various server-side technologies e.g. Java     internal.example.com      What I'm looking to discover is if we need to host the Hubspot site elsewhere, or if it safe to host it at downloads.example.com, without creating security implications for internal.example.com. Specifically, the kind of risks I have been looking at are:   * XSS attack on downloads.example.com could create a malicious cookie, shared with internal.example.com   * Download files on downloads.example.com could be altered by a hacker to contain damaging viruses and programs. So the question is, does the Hubspot site at downloads.example.com, create vulnerabilities for the other sites (even all servers are hosted separately)?


Friendly URL change and Google Webmaster Tools warnings

I just migrated (with `mod rewrite`) from non-friendly URLs to a bit-more- friendly URLs: from `site.com/post.php?id=5` to `site.com/post/the-title-of- the-post/5`. This is my PHP redirect from old to new URL:               if(empty($_GET['friendly']) && empty($_POST)){             include('includes/basedatos.php');             include('includes/funciones.php');             $id = (int) mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']);             $post = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT id, titulo FROM post WHERE id = $id"));             $titulo = $post['titulo'];             if($titulo == ''){                 header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');             }             $ruta = '/post/'.urls_amigables(trim($titulo)).'/'.$id;             header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); /* please not this */             header("Location: $ruta");             exit();         }      The problem here is that even I set the headers to 301 Google is warning me of duplicated titles (and descriptions) and shows me both (old and new) URLs. Question: is this a temporary stage? or I am not moving properly the my post URLs?


SSL on site which asks API via HTTPS

For example I have a site `site.com`. It has its own http json api: `api.site.com`. API has authorisation and it runs under `https`. Now, I need to make visualization of some functionality of json api - so I need to make a profile section on `site.com`: Authorisation form, and user profile section with actions. All actions will be done via cURL requests to `https://api.site.com`. Have I use SSL on `site.com` too?


G+ author image for blog posts not showing in search results, but does in rich snippet tool

I have registered my Google authorship e-mail, and my blog posts are on the same domain. Why is my G+ profile image not appearing in SERPs? I have e-mail registered and verified for Google authorship. All my posts have the same problem, and no profile image of mine appears. Though, when testing it in the rich snippet tool, the profile image DOES appear:Why could this be?


Apache Server-Side Includes Refuse to Work (Tried everything in the docs but still no joy)

Trying to get apache server-side includes to work. Really simple - just want to include a footer on each page. Apache 2.2:               # ./httpd -v     Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)     Server built:   Dec  4 2011 18:24:53     Cpanel::Easy::Apache v3.7.2 rev9999      mod_include is compiled in:               # /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l | grep mod_include       mod_include.c      And it's in httpd.conf:               # grep shtml httpd.conf     AddType text/html .shtml     DirectoryIndex index.html.var index.htm index.html index.shtml index.xhtml index.wml index.perl index.pl index.plx index.ppl index.cgi index.jsp index.js index.jp index.php4 index.php3 index.php index.phtml default.htm default.html home.htm index.php5 Default.html Default.htm home.html     AddHandler server-parsed .shtml     AddType text/html .shtml      In the web directory I created a .htaccess with               Options +Includes      And then in the document, I have:
next should be the include

include done
      And I see nothing in between those headers. Tried file=, also with/without absolute path. Is there something else I'm missing? I see the same thing on another unrelated server (more or less stock CentOS 6), so I suspect the problem is between keyboard and chair...


How do I create (or remove) another FTP account for a client in Plesk?

I've currently got a reseller account with my hosting provider that I use for my clients (for their websites). And I need to add/remove a FTP user, but for the life of me I can't work out how! Am sure I've looked under every possible option, TWICE! Based on the help document it appears to be v10.4 of Plesk if that helps.


subdomain to subdomain forward with masking

I want to forward with mask from one server to another server. In Server One: www.abc.com test.abc.com live.abc.com In Server Two:               http://ipaddress.com/folder1      http://ipaddress.com/folder2          test.abc.com --> http://ipaddress.com/folder1      live.abc.com --> http://ipaddress.com/folder2      In both servers what i have to do the accomplish this task.


drupal site speed increase

I'm using a drupal site with a theme from rockettheme. The users are member users. The problem is for unknown reason the site is very slow. Takes around 20 seconds to open the page. I have tried switching the VPS, but no performance gain. I'm not using many modules, that would bog down the site. What possible solutions should I look at to increase the site's speed to bring it to open in normal time. > Executed 120 queries in 113.52 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms > and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time > was 2534.15 ms. > > Executed 87 queries in 24.6 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms > and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time > was 2609.59 ms. > > Executed 123 queries in 41.05 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms > and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time > was 1282.27 ms. I don't guess these are normal.


How do I block site to specific users or IP?

I have been running a website with WordPress blog since few time. I have been receiving email reporting that few specific address has been posting un-related comments in my website. I am receiving like one email per minute from same IP address. So since the IP address is posting un-related comments I would like to block it. But don't know how? Its something like: `178.238.232.234`, `234.232.238.178.static.giga-dns.com`


Google Analytics cookie across SagePay checkout

We use SagePay's Server integration for our online payments. We use Google Analytics to track activity on our website and Google Ecommerce tracking to log transactions. In Google Analytics, under the Ecommerce view, it shows direct/none for source/medium, as the 1st party cookie is lost when visiting the external SagePay checkout pages before the customer is redirected to my confirmation page which tracks the transaction. In all the answers I have viewed when searching for a solution, the suggestion is to alter the tracking code to read ` _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);   _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); ` but this needs to be implemented on all pages, including 3rd party domains (SagePay). As SagePay don't allow javascript in their template customisation, what can I do? Is there another way? Edit: I just found this code: ` var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker('UA-XXXXX-X'); pageTracker._setCampNameKey('ga_campaign'); // name pageTracker._setCampMediumKey('ga_medium'); // medium pageTracker._setCampSourceKey('ga_source'); // source pageTracker._setCampNOKey('ga_nooverride'); // don't override pageTracker._trackPageview(); ` Could I store pre-checkout values for source/campaign/medium to a cookie and the retrieve it post-checkout into the code above, or would this start a new tracking session?


What framework for text rating site?

I want to start a "rate my"-style site. The rated objects are mostly texts. I want it to be rather simple. Features I need:   * object rating (thumb up, thumb down)   * object comments   * object tags   * related object presentation based on tags   * user authentication and management   * private message system   * sanity checks for text inputs (i.e. prevention of code injections)   * cache   * open source   * runs on GNU/Linux I would gladly take something that is tailored for my scenario but a generic framework would be fine too. I simply don't want to write stuff like user authentication that is been written a million times and risking security flaws. Programming language is irrelevant but python/php preferred. EDIT: I chose Django.


What is a good default font family for any IE8/9, Chrome & Firefox?

I have users complaining that fonts are not clear on some browseres (especially displaying data in grids...I'm using Trebuchet MS per default of asp.netmvc3 css site styles) Q: What is a good overall default font family size that displays with good resolution (easy on the eyes, easy to read, etc,)? Any recommendations?


Problem getting rewrite from subdomain to directory to work

I want to redirect `demo.example.com` to `example.com/my-demo`. This is my rewrite rule, but I'm not getting it to work on my production server:                 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^demo\.example\.com       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my-demo/$1 [R=301,L]


is it possible to get browser marketshare by OS?

For development purposes, I'd like to get a rough estimate of the distribution of browser usage share, but everything I've been able to find just states overall market share. Is it possible to get browser share by OS?


How to keep track of how many hits on a redirect page with Google Analytics

I've written a simple redirect script in PHP that takes a resource ID and then redirects the user to the appropriate page. The main motivation was if all of my links were to break because the service provider decided to disable them for whatever reason, I can update all links easily since they're in a single location. Now that I actually have a redirect page up, I'm interested in knowing which resources are most popular. I have looked at Google Analytics and it seems promising, but I am not sure how to set it up to capture what I want. My redirect page takes a set of parameters as such               http://mySite.com/redirect.php?type=RESOURCE_TYPE&id=RES_ID      I would like to keep track of each parameter (`type`, `id`) and the values. How can I accomplish this? Will there be a problem if the page does not load up completely before my redirect script kicks in and sends them off?


Redirect everything from old domain to new domain

I need to (permanent) redirect all of the following:   1. `www.domain.com`   2. `www.domain.com/folder`   3. `sub.domain.com`   4. `sub.domain.com/folder` Basically all URLS that are reachable without being intended to: `www.newdomain.com`, I want to do this within Apache and using the mod_rewrite module via the htaccess file.


Redirecting subdirectories to new domain

I have a WordPress blog under, let's say, `example.com`. It has pages under the following structure:   * `example.com/2013/some-article`   * `example.com/2014/some-other-article` Soon this domain will expire and I want to get rid of it and redirect traffic to `blog.example2.com`. I tried to do it in Apache by using `Redirect 301 / http://blog.example2.com` in `.htaccess` and later by changing DNS records to redirect to new domain. When I enter my old website directly, by web browser at `example.com/2013/some-article` I am redirected to `blog.example2.com/2013/some-article`. When I access website by Google, which should point to `example.com/2013/some- article` I am redirected to `blog.example2.com2013/some-article` (one slash is missing). **Questions** :   1. How can I redirect whole traffic to old domain, including traffic to sub-directories to root domain at `blog.example2.com`   2. How can I force Google to create proper URLs so traffic can be redirected to root domain at `blog.example2.com`   3. Is there any way to make Google display root domain of new website in search results in place of every result from old website?


Filtering out the bounce rate to a specific domain?

I have a site that's spread across two domains. Let's say the two sites are `example.com` and `exampledatabase.com`. Right now, when someone leaves `example.com` to go to `exampledatabase.com`, it's counted as a bounce. Is the correct way to remedy this to create a filter and `exclude`->`traffic to hostname`->`exampledatabase.com`? I don't want this solution to cause unanticipated manipulation of the data within the view.


Changing the content of a website completely, and SEO

I have a blog running since like 10 months, which have 300 organic unique visitors daily, and now I will establish an eCommerce website on that domain. That means, I will delete all the content related to the blog. And publish new pages related to eCommerce using a different script. Content of the blog and the topic of eCommerce are also quite different. How should i do this change in terms of SEO? What should I expect in terms of Search Rankings, organic hit?


Is permanent redirect of subdomain a bad idea for SEO?

I have a client that wants different subdomains as 'marketing URLs' that point (301 redirect) at directories, so:               shop.mysite.com -> mysite.com/shop     artist1.mysite.com -> mysite.com/artist1     artist2.mysite.com -> mysite.com/artist2      They feel that subdomain-type URLs are more prestigious and give an impression of a bigger organisation. I'd like some opinion on pros/cons for doing this from an SEO point of view.


Can I charge customers at random through my online credit card processor?

I'm developing a site and have never used CC processing before. On my site customers are submitting products to companies for review. I charge them different amounts depending on how many products they submit per month. Can I set it up where I charge them at the end of the month manually depending on how many products they submit? There is no way for me to know when they submit the first product how many more they will submit or how much to charge them so I need to wait until the month is over and then at that point it is impossible to get them sign off on the chage, so my question is can I do it manually and they just get a reciept? Or how would you handle this scenario? Thanks.


What is the easiest and fastest way to get statistics of a webservice response time?

I implemented a webservice with node.js and want to test its response time. I don't just want to do the test with one connection attempt, but I want statistics about multiple attempts, telling me the average response time and maybe even things like standard deviation and min/max. What is a good tool or webservice to do this?


I want to host the same website content on different domains

I need to find out how I can host different domains which will have the same content. I want users to be able to choose their country and based on that decide which domain to load. How do I do this without having to duplicate content? thanks


Is this safe? <a href=http://javascript:...>

I wonder if `href` and `src` attributes on `<a>` and `<img>` tags are always safe w.r.t. XSS attacks, if they start with `http://` or `https://`. For example, is it possible to append `javascript: ...` to the `href` and `src` attribute in some manner, to execute code? **Disregarding** whether or not the destination page is e.g. a pishing site, or the `<img src=...>` triggers a terribly troublesome HTTP GET request. Background: I'm processing text with markdown, and then I sanitize the resulting HTML (using Google Caja's JsHtmlSanitizer). Some sample code in Google Caja assumes all `href`s and `src`s that start with `http://` or `https://` are safe -- I wonder if it's safe to use that sample code. Kind regards,   Kaj-Magnus


Would using the same name, logo, date, and menu on each page be considered duplicate content?

Suppose there is a website for my company named "Seven Season" which manufactures T-Shirts. In the website for this company, I have the following pages:               Home     About us     Our Products     Disclaimer     Contact Us      All pages have unique content. But following content is the same in each link:   1. Logo and name of the company (i.e., "Seven Season")   2. Today's date    3. Front image slide show   4. Scrolled company slogan   5. Navigation menu having links of: Home, About us, Our Products, Disclaimer, Contact Us I want to confirm that:   1. Because of above 5 content items which are the same on each page, would I be penalized for duplicate content?   2. Are all these repeated items treated as duplicate content by search engines?   3. If these are considered to be duplicate content, then if I mention the company name as "Seven Season" in my "Home" page, then "Six Season" in my "About Us" page, and then "Five Season" in my "Product" page...is this alternative wise according to SEO?   4. To provide unique content, should I add different menu options in different pages?   5. Should I mention different dates as Today's date in each page?


Can Shopp or WP ecommerce create something as extensive as these sites? Other recommended solutions?

The project that I'm working on will require a catalog as extensive as these sites:   * http://www.ems.com   * http://www.patagonia.com/us/home but with odd size/shaped equipment such as:   * http://www.spikevolleyball.com/ So basically I need an ecommerce package to handle these number of products and variations and also odd issues such as shipping of non-standard sized equipment. Can an ecommerce package for Wordpress handle this or I need to go to a purely ecommerce package? One of the requirements for the client is to make the online store not just about the products but about the history and development of the sport. That's one of the reason why I'm still trying to find a Wordpress solution right now, because Wordpress allows other type of content besides just purely products. I've cross posted at the Wordpress stackexchange.


Google Analytics Filters not removing traffic from other domain

We have a frustrating problem where someone copied our site code including our `Google Analytics` code. So we are getting stats logged from their site which is very frustrating. I have setup 4 Filters, each trying to disallow any traffic from this other website, but still their traffic is being shown, including on the Real Time section. Do Filters even work to exclude traffic? Here is how I have it setup: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/H2H6U.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ELBQM.png) Neither of these seem to help at all.


What is this technique called and why it is done? I typed to search for "cheap 2b memory card" in google with quotes. I find an alibaba link matching to my title, I opened it and saw the same title on their search bar. http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/cheapest-2gb-memory-card.html


Google alerts - can't tell where my site is mentioned

I recently signed up for google alerts. I get emails whenever my site is mentioned anywhere on the web. The problem is that I can't figure out where my site is mentioned from the emails they send me. Here is how their emails look like:               Web 1 new result for comehike.com          Hiking Sticks and Poles - Come Hike     Hiking sticks and poles help you prevent injury to your joints and take the stress of the joints while hiking. They can also help you prop yourself and protect you ...     hiking.comehike.com/outdoors/hiking_sticks.php      But how do I tell who mentioned it? Thanks!


300, 302, 303 or 307 redirect for international site?

A company website offers the same products and pages (more or less) across different countries. It's a mess; they use a **mix of subdirectories, subdomains and ccTLDs** for international sites:   * `us.example.com/product.html`   * `example.com/uk-EN/product.html`   * `example.com/de-DE/product.html`   * `example.com/nl-EN/product.html`   * `example.ca/product.html` They have decided to use IP-sniffing to redirect users to the right site. Which 3XX redirect protocol is the most appropriate? >   * 300 multiple choices (e.g. offer different languages) >   * 302 found (originally temporary redirect, but now commonly used to > specify redirection for unspecified reason) >   * 303 see other (e.g. for results of cgi-scripts) >   * 307 temporary redirect > I am leaning towards 300 since it makes sense, but Googlebot is in the US, so it will be redirected away from this international content in favor of the US domain? Also, implementing `hreflang` is an obvious addition to any of this, but without it, which would be most suited?


Website forwarding - actions do not seem to work

I have the following website up and running: www.posti.sh The website is actually on www.myskoob.com/postish/, but I use domain forwarding so that when the user types in www.posti.sh it stays that way and does not change to www.myskoob.com/postish/. You can try out the website. It is generally about posting something and uses jQuery ajax to let the user perform posting. Here's the problem: While visiting www.myskoob.com/postish/, that works fine - all ajax calls seem to work. However, when I go to www.posti.sh, it does not work - I cannot understand why. There are two ways of forwarding - one is frame forwarding (which then works) and the other is URL-hiding, which is a much cleaner way because that way the URL actually changes with different pages that are opened. Anybody knows a reason why URL-hiding does not work? Thank you! Dennis


Company blog, host internally or not?

If I have a website for a company selling product(s). Is there any difference in terms of rewards/penalties from having a company blog hosted interally (for example `mycompany.com/blog`) or going externally to Blogpost, WordPress, etc. (`mycompany.blogspot.com` for example).


RSS in a Wordpress

is there any way to show an image for RSS feess in my wordpress page... it os because currently defaul wordpress RSS feeds will only show a text of other feeds from other site..how can i make my site show a thumb image of rss feeds of th other sites..below are example of the rss feeds on my site. plizzz help me.i really needs a help from all of u guys.... ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fbONi.jpg)


google page scan and backlinks

As i seen using google webmaster tools, google was cahing near about all links present on a webpage of my site. I just want to be ensure, if there is an external link present on my webpage outside the main contents (like sidebar, comments, post footer) then would it be counted as backlink to that side. For example, if i let a plugin to display "credit to" or "powered by" etc link then would it be counted as backlink?