Why are the converted clicks totals different between Locations and Keywords in Google Analytics?

Here is my case:   * Select a Campaign -> click Keywords -> the total converted clicks (search + display netowrk) equals 3.   * Click Settings -> click Locations -> the total converted clicks equals 2. Why are the two values different? Does Google Analytics sometimes fail to recognize countries?


Is my .htaccess rule creating an infinite loop?

Whenever I type a made up address that includes a directory index it removes it. The problem is when the the address includes a forbidden subdirectory. It reduces itself until it hits forbidden. How do I get it to redirect to the homepage instead of reducing itself?               Options -Indexes +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews     RewriteEngine on          DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php          # REDIRECT www to non-wwww     # Set Canonical URL     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]          # REMOVE Directory Index From URL     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/)?index\.(htm?|html?)$ /$1 [R=301,L]          # Custom Error Documents     ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404_notfound.htm


Subscription service or software to handle a Magazine's PDF

I'm looking for an installable or hosted software (service) to handle the process of public users subscribing to the Magazine and receiving the PDF automatically upon an admin upload the new one. The system will have to:   * handle the money part (PayPal&Co. are OK)   * let user buy old issues of the Magazine   * warn user on subscription expiring, etc. PDF stamping and WordPress integration (user credential sharing, page access of subriscrebed goods, etc) will be a big plus.


Permanent redirect to different domain followed by temporary redirect to folder

I have `old-domain.com` which I want to migrate to `new-domain.com`. However, the content on the old domain is, well, old. And I'm currently in the process of redesigning my whole site. My idea is to do a permanent (301) redirect from `old-domain.com` to `new- domain.com` so that search engines know about the new domain and forget about the old one. But since the content is old I was thinking to do a temporary (302) redirect from `new-domain.com` to `new-domain.com/old/` until the new content/site is ready to be published. Is this, for some reason, a bad idea? Or there's nothing wrong with it? One last thing... If I go with this, what should I do when the new content is ready? Should I just remove the 302 redirect and that's it, or should I do something else to notify search engines that the temporary redirect is over?


Wrong canonicalization by Google

I had 2 pages with mostly same text and the difference being in Flash and cities names. So, Google started to think that those were copies of the same page and to index only the most popular of them. So I changed texts. No result. I used this http://www.google.com/addurl/ and Google still crawled only the most popular page. What do I have to do to convince Google that those are different pages? So far only changing urls comes to my mind.


How can I obtain click data to sort a list of URLs?

If you had a list of URLs and you wanted to show which of them was more important than the others (by click-through), how would you gain the number of clicks for a given link so that you could sort them, possibly showing that some links are a thousand times more visited than the others? The output could be: > 1 : link1 : 10500 > > 2 : link2 : 9200 > > 3 : link3 : 8100 > > 4 : link4 : 7000 > > 5 : link5 : 250 > > 6 : link6 : 100 > > 7 : link7 : 20


Trouble setting up DNS for VPS

I had registered a domain at namecheap and forwarded the DNS to my host at `vps.net`. The strange thing is, when I did that the site was showing up. I even uploaded files and everything was displaying correctly on my new domain. Now, it is just the namecheap holding page again. I have no idea why this is happening as I haven't touched the configuration since it was working. Could anyone point me in the right direction? When I enter `http://example.com` it redirects to `http://www.example.com` and the namecheap holding page is shown. Prior to this `domain.com` was showing what the host was serving. I am completely lost and have no idea where to start so I'd appreciate any help I can get.


re-direct URL with google +

I have a WP plugin that is throwing up an error after I go to authorise my account to link up with the Client ID and Client Secret details set up in Google +.. This is the error Error:redirect_uri_mismatch The redirect URI in the request: http://nutribalance.net/wp- content/plugins/paged_social_lockdown/lib/google/plus/ did not match a registered redirect URI Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, David


Can I sell a php website on a condition that the code is not resold by the client?

What if I write my client a website using LAMP. Suppose that clients starts selling my code to other people, can I perhaps do something about it because I have already asked them not to sell it more than once. This is because I am giving them the space to sell their website. But I don't want my code to be sold to too many people. As a web developer, I usually use OOP really well and so when my clients want websites, I usually use what I have. But what worries me is that a customer can go and sell my code for a cheaper price which in turn could run me out of business. This is a little complicating because I did sell them the website. But on the other hand, I have a copy of windows but I may not resell it. The problem is that unlike windows, php isn't compiled and thus they could make changes and sell it. My question is, can I take them to court over it?


Changed url from non www to www...Google Indexing

I have recently changed (about 1 week ago) my url from non www version to www version. I told my hosting company to do this and they did it successfully all my urls are directed to www version. But google is indexing my non www version on the search results. I have updated new content on my website and google indexes that content with the changed url i.e with prefix www but the mainpage i.e the site name is still shown without www and its not updated. I have checked that my `www.sitename.com` is listed on google but not shown when I type `www.sitename.com`. So how much time does it take to remove the old urls from indexing and updating into new urls ??????


Direct link to cPanel File Manager

What is the direct link to the cPanel File Manager? The documentation says when inside cPanel, to access files, you have to click on the File Manager icon. I can log in to cPanel but the page does not seem to go to cPanel. I need to upload some files on the server but somehow I cannot. What I need is the link that gets you to the File Manager interface. For example: To go directly to phpMyAdmin, you can type something like: > example.com:XXXX/cpsess7168629484/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/index.php and this will send you directly to phpMyAdmin. What if you want to go directly to File Manager?


Verify / setup LAMP via SSH

I am a PHP coder and have next to none experience in system administration. One of my clients has obtained a VPS from HostGator. The logins I was sent, take me to Parallels Infrastructure Manager, where I presumably, can start and stop _containers_. I guess a container in this context is a virtual server. Anyway, I looked for and couldn't find a cPanel, Plesk or anything familiar. I contacted support and asked how could I get a LAMP envo working on this account. They said as the account is not Level 3, I need to do everything through SSH. I verified that Apache is running. But don't know where I should look for the document root. With that I would be able to check if I have PHP and MySQL running or not. If they're not, I don't know what should I do next. Your advice is appreciated. P.S. The OS is CentOS. **Update**   Ok, I found the document root which is `/var/www/html` as noted here. If you someone can provide guidance on how to setup PHP and MySQL via SSH, it would be great.


Shared SSL hosting receives all SSL requests but why is Google getting it wrong?

The website is hosted on a shared server that supports SSL. The web hosting provider secures our website using SSL:               https://domain.com instead of http://domain.com      Ever since then all the client HTTP requests sent to the server are redirected to my website. Leading `https://otherdomain.com` and I'm presented with a warning message. I now know its my fault and I should of known that most SSL certifications only support one IP address but... Google Search results for my website's target keywords is now displaying these websites above my own, even though they have nothing even remotely related to the target keywords! **Already Done** :   * provide canonical URL in the HTML page.   * told the problem to the server manager, who tells me it's normal but he'll look for a solution. This was one week ago, no answer since. I have no idea why Google is providing these HTTPS URLS: i thought someone would have to submit them, or have them inside an HTML page in order for Google to actually index dummy HTTPS domains, but i see no reason why someone would do that. Any suggestion on how to solve this situation? Go-live is in one week and SEO looks really bad because of that.


I'm having some trouble moving MX records to the registrars DNS

I run Google Apps email and have traditionally hosted my own DNS records through my Plesk setup. It has been recommended to us that we'd more reliably serve emails during downtime if we kept the MX and CNAME listings required by Google Apps hosted at Enom instead of handling it internally. I have essentially copied the settings from Plesk over to Enom. The domain itself forwards with no problem, but the MX records, while they seem to be input into Enom without error, never seem to reroute my mail. If I try to send to the email address I'm trying to route, I get the following error bounced back: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 553 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) (state 14). This sort of error gets referenced a lot with regard to propogation, but It's been two days and Enom updates everything else almost instantly. Ideas?


Search and Tags for robots.txt

After setting up a blog at blogspot.com I added the site to my webmasters tools of google. I noticed an error: "Restricted by robots.txt" and looked a little into the matter. I found in the robots.txt of blogspot that Google prevents the /search directory by default in order to avoid duplicate entries in their search engine. As tags can be found under /search/label/SOME_TAG, these are not indexed too. I run different sites, especially one is an important e-commerce site for me. For each product, we use tags. Each tags leads to a separate site like /tags/tag1/ and lists all products that are linked to this tag. And this leads me to my question: **Should I also block search and/or tag pages on my sites by using robots.txt?** I feel google might punish my pagerank/results for using this "low-quality" content. However I think they are quite useful. We provide a short description of each tag and how the listed products can be used for the problem the tag describes. Moreover users landing on tags-pages have very high bounce rates (>90%), which is far above the average bounce rate. So, what is the best practice?


Should I encourage clients to update content for SEO reasons?

Assume a website has quality content, let's say it's about a topic that does not change: a company whose services and staff stay the same, and they have no news to speak of. The content is accurate, it's just static. Will this site _always_ lose in search engine results to the sites of similar companies with similar websites with, say, a simple piece of content (e.g.: home page with a "what we're up to lately" subsection) that changes monthly? `<ramble>`   I get frustrated with clients who are given tools to update their sites, but don't. My intuition is that by not adding "fresh" content to their site, even minimal content, they are hurting their search position in a way that's significant. Is that a valid intuition? Are there studies showing this is so or not so? I don't want to push clients to put more on the web if there's not going to be a return for that effort. I was considering building an automated tool to allow clients to set a weekly, monthly, etc reminder to add or update content. Any opinions on how much is enough for the SEO boost? Not every site needs a blog or has regular press releases.   `</ramble>`


Open source login solution

Authentication is such a general problem, which most websites have to implement. There are a few commercial solutions, but all lack sufficient functionality to customize the registration process. Therefore, I am looking for an open-source alternative. I am using PHP and with PostgreSQL as database, but as far as I understand one could utilize authentication solutions using other technologies and integrate them into our site in various ways. Therefore, I am looking for such solutions in any technology apart from those requiring Microsoft infrastructure... I would prefer Open Source solution, which have already implemented the following features:   * Has password recovery procedure   * Username is the email address of the user   * Has "Remember me" functionailty (meaning that the user is logged in automatically without seeing the login page)   * email address verification Google has gotten me nowhere on this and neither a search on this site...


Publishing series of photos on non-dynamic website

I have a series of photos I was asked to publish on a website. Website is on the free hosting (plain HTML and ftp access). Is there any way (javascript framework or anything) to quickly build a gallery, without creating pages manually for each photo category? Or, probably, an offline tool to generate html-structure for this.


SEO consequences from transfering tld's to sub domains

We have a client that has multiple top level domains for the products they offer. These products are different full fledged softwares. They also have a domain for their actual company that makes these products. We are consolidating their sites so that all of them can be managed by one backend. One of our developers suggested to consolidate even more by moving their product tld's into sub domains of the company site. So instead of this:   http://company.com   http://product1.com   http://product2.com   http://product3.com   http://product4.com   It would be this:   http://company.com   http://product1.company.com   http://product2.company.com   http://product3.company.com   http://product4.company.com   They like their current spots they have on search engines for each of these tlds. What consequences would happen they were to move them to sub domains. How (if any) can we prevent these consequences from happening? Or is it better to keep them separate tlds?


Same page template but ackground image doesn't show

I have installed new theme for Wolf CMS here. This is a demo of the template. Why does the content background image show on the demo but not on my site? The HTML and CSS is the same, and the image exists on my server. The background image _does_ show on my home page.


What is the difference between PageRank and Page Authority?

My question is what is the difference between PageRank and Page Authority? Can anybody define me please.


File access forbidden in htpasswd

I have been using the htpasswd generated in this question and it seemed to have been working well until recently. Since yesterday, I am not able to access the newest file created in the folder **`ChatLogs`** (named `10_07_2012.txt`). The server returns a **403 Forbidden** error saying: > ## Forbidden > >> You don't have permission to access /ChatLogs/2012/07/10_07_2012.txt on this server. I am still able to access older files(until `09 July, 2012`). At first I thought it might be because of file permissions, but they are the same as on other 9 files in the folder. What could be the problem? Please Help. ## EDIT As per w3d's suggestion, I completely removed my **htpasswd** and **htaccess** files. Restarted the apache2 server(using `service apache2 restart`) and I'm still getting the same **403 Forbidden** error for all chatlogs created after `2012-07-10 00:00:00`. The chatlog files are created/modified using **Lua** and **PtokaX**. The chatlogging script is similar to this one


How do keywords in Google Webmaster Tools affect search results?

I've checked the keywords list on the Google Webmaster Tools account for my website (which is a message board), and I noticed that the top keywords are things such as "topic" and "forum". I'm guessing that is because those are the words which appear the most within the homepage. The question is, will this impact search results? I'm guessing yes. If so, can this be solved, and how? I already searched on Google and on SEO forums without any luck. (When it comes to SEO, most info looks like bogus to me. I hope I'm wrong, but meanwhile I'll ask here since it seems a reliable place.)


pulp pedia article deletion

I hope this is the correct stackexchange subsite if not I apologise. I would like to delete an article from PULP PEDIA, a horrifically rude and not funny website to mimic original wikipedia posts and enhance them with curse words. Could somebody tell me how I can delete a PULP PEDIA entry without deleting the actual Wikipedia entry ? Thank you very much. All the best.


IE9 renders my web site as IE7. How to make it render as IE9?

IE9 renders my web site as IE7. How to make not to make assumptions?


Keyword ending ccTLD domain names and SEO

There is huge number of ccTLD top domain names that is available for registration. This is country specific domains could be used for `keyword ending domain`. e.g `assemb.ly`, `architectu.re`, `stud.io`.... etc I am just wondering how is SEO goes for that kind of domains? The reason I am asking because the `.com` and `.net` domain names I want to register are not available so that is why currently I am researching the option of `keyword ending domain` but not sure if it is a good idea to use such kind of domain for global not country specific website. **In my case I am looking to`.re` domain name.** Or it is better to come up with different `.com` or `.net` domain name that is available instead of using `keyword ending domain` in case when `.com` or `.net` are not available? What do you think? UPDATE: here is article I came across but cant see `.re` domain in the list... Would this Google Webmaster Tools trick really help to set ccTLD to target global: > Set a geographic target: > > On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want. Click the gear > icon , and then click Site Settings. In the Geographic target section, > select the option you want. ? UPDATE: Found a good discussion here on that topic and this article


Best way for beginner to learn JavaScript and PHP coding

I have a job interview coming up and in job description it states I need to be able to write JavaScript and PHP coding. Now its been a while since I did JavaScript and PHP coding. I am planning to use w3schools to be able to start of with the basics. But my question is what is the best way on learning these web programming languages? Is it through books or through the web? If anyone know any sites which gan be helpful to learn or to be able to take tutorials in then please can you give me some links to check out?


Can't get an image to scale to browser size!

If anyone has any insight on why this background image is not scaling properly on this page to browser size, that would be really helpful. I am stumped! I'm fairly new to CSS and HTML and could use some assistance. Whoever can help me figure this out, I'm willing to paypal a few bucks. If any more information is necessary please let me know! It's the image of the computer right below the nav bar. http://codesilver.us


Where can I find comscore rank?

Recently one ad network rejected my registration stating that my site doesn't match their minimum monthly impressions, even though the site serves thrice the required page views. When I contacted them for details, their representative hinted that they are using comscore data for screening submissions. Where can I view my site's comscore ranking and details? **Update** I was able to find the traffic by tagging my site with comScore Direct.


Do first impressions really count?

So, i am currently writing something up for a college class. Problem is everything is hypothetical. I need some proof. I believe a first impression on a website is imperative so that people actually use it and in my case, buy your product or services as well. Basically I'm wondering has there been any studies that shows how a better web design will increase revenue for any kind of services? I don't just mean selling products like a T-shirt, but labor services as well. If someone wanted their computer fixed and searched for companies that can do so, will a first impression on the website help them make their decision to use your company? Are there any studies like this? White papers maybe? Thanks!


Should I move to Linode?

I am looking for insight, because I have the tendency to run full throttle into things with (at times) too much confidence. To summarize my somewhat lengthy explanation below, I am looking to see if I can handle my own Linode LEMP stack without getting hacked. I am starting up a couple of websites for fun, and if all goes well make it a career. I would love to run a few niche sites of my own and then freelance web dev with web hosting as a package for customers. Currently I have a site on a Knownhost WHM VPS. However, I would prefer to work on the console as opposed to running WHM/cPanel. Also I do not really want my clients to have a cPanel, since I am targeting people who "just want it to work", there are plenty of good hosts with cPanel anyhow. Scaling is another issue, I am planning to have a somewhat busy site with 250k+ visits/mo., and I am afraid making the move later will be more painful. So I will admit, my linux bash skills are lacking, but are increasing every day. I am currently practicing/studying for the LPIC-1 exams. I have built LAMP and LEMP stacks on my basement server, and they work fine here. Another issue is the lack of documentation of WHM compared to apache, it seems it would be easier to learn apache/nginx. I am also planning on using www.vpsbible.com to help me secure the Linode and help me build a LEMP stack with PHP-FPM and X-Cache. Anyhow, with all this being said, would I be foolish to start up my own Linode?


Does updating site too frequently hurt SEO rankings?

I recently updated my site, like 3-4 times in 2 months. At first everything was good, (i.e., Google was updating my pages' SERP content in 2-3 days). But now I did kind of a major change, I switched to CodeIgniter. My URLs are nearly the same as before, but my page titles and meta descriptions changed in terms of order. They were starting with brand name, and now they are starting with keywords. Now for one week Google has not updated my site. Do you think my site is Sandboxed? Is it bad to update too frequently? Also, my site is hosted on a free host called 000Webhost, so it is sometimes down. Could that affect ranking very much? My site also has no backlinks whatsoever, so I don't think Google visits my site very often, and Google Webmaster Tools says so too.


DNS: Getting www.example.com set up

I set up a recent (Wordpress) project on Microsoft Azure with a domain from 123-reg. When I set up the DNS servers I am getting `example.com` is working to the site, but `www.example.com` isn't and is showing a `404` error. If possible I would love to set up the DNS to allow either `www.example.com` or `example.com` to work. Even better if both can work! I have worked with domains before mainly through cPanel which has great options that normally work for me, while doing it straight from the Domain service isn't showing any possible results.


Is it possible to have a link inside a textbox like Outlook (names of the recipients)

Would this work?               <input type="text" value="JROQ"></input>      How could I make it happen?


How to redirect any URL to lowercase URL?

I have this .htaccess files:               ErrorDocument 404 /index.html     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php$     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^search=([A-Za-z0-9\+]+)$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mystring-%1.html? [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^myfolder-([^+]+)\+([^.]+)\.html$ /mp3-$1-$2.html [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^myfolder-(.*).html$ index.php?search=$1&a=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^myfolder-([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-([^-]*)\.htm$ /index.php?search=$1&page=$2 [L]     </IfModule>      **I want to redirect all of the Upercase and all case to lowercase URL like this:** `/myfolder-sample-URL.html` to `/myfolder-sample-url.html`


How long does it take for Google Webmaster Tools to notice links that have been removed?

In order to comply better with Google's guidelines, we've gone to a lot of effort to remove links to our website. However, sites that no longer link to us still show up in our Google Webmaster Tools. These links were removed over a month ago.


Licensing javascript code

I am developing a javascript library with various functions and am providing it in repositories, but I do not know how to provide the license. Should I just put the file `LICENSE` in the same folder as the javascript JS file and comment on the type of license used? **example** :               * lib.js     * license      **lib.js** :               / *     * License "license name used"     * /          code...


Disallow all user agents except one using .htaccess?

I've been struggling to get this .htaccess working. The aim is to disallow all user agents besides my app. The app sends a GET request with a user agent of lets say 'AcmeUpdater'. Whenever I try to navigate to any file in the folder, I get a 500 - Internal Server Error. Here are the rules I'm using:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^KMUpdaterClient*     RewriteRule .* - [F,L]     </IfModule>      I have updated the .htaccess file as suggested in the answer by Nick, and restarted Apache. After trying a couple of different things, it seems that just the presence of a .htaccess is causing the 500 error. I'm getting nothing in the error logs. The .htaccess file at the document root looks like the following:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options +FollowSymLinks     ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     </IfModule>      So I realised that the error logs were in chronological order rather than the reverse chronological I expected (Oops!). The error I'm getting is: `</IfModule> without matching <IfModule> section`. I removed the `</IfModule>` and still I get that error. Ideas?


design website using header and footer template approach

I am trying to re-do my portfolio website since its a pain to maintain it. Everytime I have to add a new item to it, it just takes forever and kills me. I'd like to redesign in a way that makes the workflow of adding new items smooth. I am not looking for fancy effects, just a simple website which makes it easy to people browse through my stuff. All of the pages are standalone html files. Each page has a common header and footer for navigation between pages. Right now, whenever I have to modify the content, I try to dig in which table row it is and then add content to it. (yes, I use notepad). Can someone please recommend me what would be the best way to go about it ? (PS: Please let me know if I missed out anything).


How to Merge Multiple Website Account - Google Analytics

When my clients adds me as an admin on there Google Analytics account for the website I am going to manage. Each time a separate Account shows up on my Google analytics with a single property in it (that is the clients site). Is it possible to merge all those accounts and keep them as properties under a Account I create, call it "Clients" I currently have 20+ clients accounts and its getting overwhelming. Its would be great if I can move them to a single account and add each site as property.


SEO - Index images (lazyload)

`Note:`My question is not about Javascript. I'm developing a plugin for `jQuery/Mootols/Prototype`, that work with DOM. This plugin will be to improve page performance (better user experience). The plugin will be distributed to other developers so that they can use in their projects. How does the `lazyload`: The images are only loaded when you scroll down the page (will look like this: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload/enabled_timeout.html LazyLoad). But he does not need `HTML5`, I refer to this attribute: `data- src="image.jpg"` Two good examples of website use LazyLoad are: youtube.com (suggested videos) and facebook.com (photo gallery). I believe that the best alternative would be to use:               Content for ALT=""      and convert using javascript, for this:                     Then you question me: Why do you want to do that anyway? I'll tell you: Because HTML5 is not supported by any browser (especially mobile) And the attribute `data-src="image.jpg"` not work at all Indexers. I need a piece of HTML code to be fully accessible to search engines. Otherwise the plugin will not be something good for other developers. I thought about doing so to help in indexing:                     But `noscript` has negative effect on the index (I refer to the contents of noscript) I want a plugin that will not obstruct the image indexing in search engines. This plugin will be used by other developers (and me too). `This is my question:` How to make a HTML images accessible to search engines, which can minimize the requests?


Digital Asset Management System

I am looking for an opensource web-based digital asset management system. My requirements are to create a web based system where users can upload and download .zip, .jpg, .png, .pdf, .doc, .xls etc. media files. Also user management should be there, so that we can create multiple users and accordingly give them permissions. I have found one http://www.resourcespace.org/ but it looks a bit big and complicated. It is fitting to my need but I am looking and researching a bit more to get some good and more easy to use system. If anyone knows such web based system or tool, please share.


How do I get Google to crawl my content when it's only displayed when you fill in a form?

I have a webpage. **It has a form and the "results" section is blank**. When **the user searches for items** , and a list that pops up, he/she chooses one option from list and then the **corresponding results are displayed in results section.** I once decided to log every ip,url of person with time that visits my page. One ip was 66.249.73.26, and on doing google search I came to know it is ip of google bot. link for whatmyipaddress google bot Now when I searched for the links that this ip visited, it was like this:               search?id=100     search?id=110     ...     search?id=200     ...      then afterwards it incremented in steps of 1, like 400,401.. But **people search for strings and not numbers**. And because googlebot searches for numbers like this, I think the corresponding content is never displayed and so **my page content is never indexed, even though it has rich content.** So I want to ask you is that **in order to show google bot all the content that the webpage has, should I list all the results in index page and ask users to enter string to filter results?**


Integrative Google Analytics for dynamic search

My website is advertised with TripAdvisor and in the following way the URL is called:               https://ther8.com/api/hotel/271203?start_date=2014-01-16&end_date=2014-01-18&num_adults=2&utm_source=AUB1&utm_medium=Meta_CheckRates_CPC&utm_campaign=TripAdvisor      In the above URL: **Search Parameters**               hotel_id = 271203     start_date = 2014-01-16     end_date = 2014-01-18     name_adults = 2      **Tracking Parameters**               utm_source=AUB1     utm_medium=Meta_CheckRates_CPC     utm_campaign=TripAdvisor      And the URL is called how can Google Analytics make a note of the search parameter that has these tracking parameters?


How to move a website and domain name without experiencing downtime for emails or site?

Okay, I have a pretty complex problem, so I'll get right to it. I'm a designer who built a new website for my client. Their old site is hosted at GoDaddy, as well as their email. Problem is, the guy who built the original site decided to put the original domain name and hosting under HIS personal GoDaddy account. Well, that turned out to be a bad move for several reasons. Here's how it's all tied together. The original domain name, www.domainoriginal.com, was actually purchased at Network Solutions. The original web designer pointed the nameservers from Network Solutions to his GoDaddy account, where the email and hosting is setup. The new domain name, www.domainnew.com, was purchased under a new and separate GoDaddy account belonging to the company, and the new website was built under a 3rd party platform (Big Commerce). So, the www.domainnew.com is already pointed to the new website using A records at new GoDaddy account. All is fine there. However, they still need www.domainoriginal.com to point to the NEW website as well. (The old one can simply be deleted, it is NOT important). AND, they want to keep their old email addresses intact and working as well, but under the NEW GoDaddy account. Obviously, I have no DNS control at Network Solutions, and I have no idea what kind of control I have at GoDaddy under the old account because the web designer will not let me see inside his account. But, he and GoDaddy both tell me nothing can be done other than to repoint the nameservers to Network Solutions, and then repoint the A record to my new website, www.domainnew.com, and point the MX Records to GoDaddy. I'm told the downtime would be 24-48 hours if I do this. Ideally, we'd like to do a domain name transfer and get www.domainoriginal.com in the new GoDaddy account created by the company. But, I'm told this could take up to 7 days. Does this mean the site and email will be down for 7 days? And any emails sent during this time, would they be lost forever? If I do this, how long could I expect the site and email to go down? And, will the emails be permanently lost? I've gotten different answers from everybody at GoDaddy so I kind of don't trust them anymore... Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Tyson


Add domain to VPS

I have a VPS server running _Ubuntu 11.04_ with webmin installed on it. How can I add my `example.com` domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?


Anyway to validate schema.org JSON before publishing?

I have a site with a lot of data, and I'm dynamically building JSON-LD data that I think is `schema.org` correct. I can't find a dead-on example on `schema.org`, and it will take forever if I have to publish the content live, then wait for Google to say there's a problem, then re-attempt it, then wait again, etc. This is an example of what I'd like to validate:               <script type="application/ld+json">     {         "@context": "http://schema.org",         "@type": "TravelAction",         "agent": {             "type": "Person",             "name": "John Schmuckatelly"         }         "fromLocation": {             "@type": "Country",             "name": Curacao",             "@type": "GeoCoordinates",             "latitude": 12.05",             "longitude": -68.81667"         }         "toLocation": {             "@type": "Country",             "name":Aruba         }     }     </script>


Is there a tool that converts css to less.css?

I have a pretty big CSS file, that I want to convert to less. When I wrote the CSS I did not know less.css, but now I still want to use my old CSS. Is there a tool that can help me to convert it automatically?


Moving domain currently on Google Apps to my own machines

I own a domain which currently uses Google Apps (it was free back then). Due to recent events I have decided I want to move everything right where I can control the data, which basically means I have the idea of either using a dyndns solution and have at home my own mail server or, better, use an hosted machine to retrieve the mail and the move it via mua to a local machine. My problem is that I know basically next to nothing about DNS and stuff, while I have installed mail servers before. :) [I simply never had the need to work with DNS...] I'd really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction: what do I need to do to:   1. terminate the Google Apps management of the domain   2. setup dns entries to that mail goes to the new server instead of Google Apps Additionally:   1. if I decide to go the "hosted route" and I put up a machine via a supercheap hosting seller (say, the cheapest OVH one is a few euros a month), how can I tell the world that that machine is the mail server? Of course I would be wise to do a full backup of the mail on Google Apps, and that's easy enough to do by imap (right?).


Resolving a security issue with my private virtual server

When I search for "thelab athome-training" on Google, and click on a link that point to my site (thelab.athome-training.com), I am redirected to `http://grooogle.osa.pl` I googled and found that post: They said: > The site is doing a conditional redirect when the referrer is Google. So I check .htaccess and index.php, but can't found something. So I replace all the Drupal files with a fresh download, but no change. I also did:               dnstracer -v thelab.athome-training.com      But evrything looks fine... Many questions comes in my mind... How did they do that ? Why ? How to found the infected file ? How to prevent this from happening again? Edit Thank you SkeetOverFlow,               grep -r "eval(base64_decode" *      run from the root of my Drupal install, show my that files from the panel module are infected:               eval(base64_decode("ZXJyb3JfcmVwb3J0aW5nKDAp ...      In all the templates, many times in each file But the site you link, speak about an issue with php 5.2, and I run php 5.3... Is it possible that PHP 5.3 is also buggy?


Choosing the best URLs for a Picture Blog site on Wordpress

I would like to select the best SEO friendly URL format for my WordPress based picture site. But I am not sure about the impact of SEO in the following formats. In other words I want a better format to help me from duplicate URLs problem. `www.example.com/picture/title-{Unique_ID}` or `www.example.com/picture-{Unique_ID}/title` Or let WordPress add numbers on the end to avoid dupes e.g `www.example.com/picture/title-2` I am in the urge to put Unique ID or any number to prevent from the duplicate of URLs and not for any other feature as this site does with Unique ID. By the way do search engines consider `www.example.com/title-2` more weight compared to using just `www.example.com/title-2`?


Multilingual sites SEO and canonical

I'm in the process of improving the SEO in one of our client's multilingual sites. Currently the site passes a user the site in their preferred language by checking for a language cookie set by the system last time it was visited. If the cookie does not exist it looks for an "Accept-Language" header from the browser and checks for a language supported by the site. If that fails it defaults to a language based on some preset defaults for GEO-Location. Once we have a language determined the site will return the page in the language determined with no change to the URL and with all the proper meta tags for that language. So if a Spanish speaking user requests domain.com/venue/access/ then they we'll see Spanish while an English speaker would see English. Of course if the user clicks a language select link with a query string including lang=?? (?? would be es,en, ect.) their cookie will be changed to that language and they'll get that language from that point forward. The problem with this approach is, while usually great for a person, crawlers (currently) don't pass an "Accept-Language" header when they request a page. This means that a result shown for people using Google, Bing, ect. will usually be in the default language or sometimes a completely different language depending on the path the crawler has taken to a page and how it decided to index it. This is killing our SEO and click-though outside of the default language. We're working with two ideas for how we're going to change handling of user language. * * * **Version 1** - All languages have a sub-directory If a user hits a URL without a language directory we'll check for the users language by following the following steps in order until we get a match.   1. User has cookie for language preference.    2. Check the browser headers for a supported language   3. Fallback to a site default language based on GEO-Location. Once a language has been determined the system will set a cookie, do a 301 direct and add the language sub-directory to the URL which will be parsed by mod-rewrite and passed as a query string parameter. * * * **Version 2** - All NEW languages have a sub-directory The first time a user hits the site if they hit a URL without a language directory we'll check for the users language by following the following steps in order until we get a match.   1. User has cookie for language preference.    2. Check the browser headers for a supported language If a supported language has been detected the system will set a cookie. If the language is not the default language the system will do a 301 direct and add the language sub-directory to the URL if the language is not the default site language which will be parsed by mod-rewrite and passed as a query string parameter. * * * Any input on the better option? How should we deal with Canonical URL's depending on which option we choose, should canonical URL's point to the main URL without the language sub- directory or should they point to the version for the current language sub- directory? The client would like, if possible, to have counters for social networking reflect the totals for a page in all languages and we're assuming having separate sub-directories for language will prevent this, unless we use a canonical to a single URL which will probably screw up crawlers and negate the whole point of the language changes. Is there an ideal solution I might be missing?


Maximum number of sub-domains?

If I own a domain (www.mydomain.com), what are the theoretical and practical limits on the number of sub-domains I can create (eg meta.mydomain.com, beta.mydomain.com)?


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i'm new, and i'm sorry for my english. I try to explain: i've bought for my italian site a domain (for example): www.FOO.in . The extension .IN is (in theory) for Indian web site. I haven't bought .IT (italian web site) because it was already occupied. The same for other famous extension: .COM, .NET, .ORG etc. So i'm asking you: when i search for the word "FOO" in Google Italy will be there possibilities to appears on top (the first 10/20) pages ? For your experience how google threat "keyword" in domain name, but with foreign extension ? Thank you.


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So, I have a responsive design site. Studies say that for mobile devices we need to show a bit less content (graphics and such), and that we need to make sites load quicker for mobiles. If I set some page elements in css to display:none for mobile, it won't show these blocks, but it doesn't mean that content in these blocks won't be taking time to download. So we end up hiding but still serving. On a responsive site, how do I hide blocks of page elements and not serve their content to mobile users to speed page load time?


What would SEO and SEM initiatives be defined as?

I was asked to give examples of SEO or SEM initiatives, yet I really don't know what they mean by SEO or SEM initiatives. Is this a strategy or method? Sorry for sounding completely dumb.


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I have noticed that lots of new site use a gigantic footer with columns that represent their navigation? What is the philosophy behind them? Are they for SEO, semantic layout, or is that information just required but not important. Examples:   * http://www.mint.com/   * http://www.oregonlive.com/   * http://moms4mom.com/   * http://arstechnica.com/


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Our site is pretty old and the navigation is currently a large list of links on the left side of our page. (We use CSS similar to suckerfish to collapse it) Our site is mainly informational, with topics from news releases to science papers to social media links and multimedia. How to make effective top navigation? Use a classic top nav with contextual side navigation? How many menu items become too many? How much of the page should be dedicated to navigation? What sort of principles guide the decision as to where something goes in my menus? EDIT: This is a .gov site, therefore much of the content is esoteric and not for everybody. However if you need it, you really need it. And in our case, about 50% of our visitors are probably looking to argue with us (meaning they are on the hostile side to begin with)


SEO: Include category in URL to article/post?

Is it good for SEO to include the category in the URL? Like so:               \articles\ID\example_category\slug      Or does it not matter and only make the URL unnecessary long? **Note** ; the article is also available at `\articles\ID` which redirects to the URL above, so the user does not have to type out the long URL.


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I have a page for a doctor's practice. In the summary page for the practice there is a list of subsections such as Women's, Men's, Children, Sport, etc. Some of these sub sections are very large, others can be a paragraph or more with a short unordered list. In terms of content volume, the large subsections warrant their own separate page, the smaller one's not so much. I created a little plugin which enables me to use the list of subsections in 2 ways. When clicking on the title of a larger section, you'll be sent through to it's own page. For the smaller sections, a slide down box will open with the information. Is this a good way to handle my information architecture? Should I be giving the smaller sub sections their own page for SEO purposes?


If EC2 has a free tier why do I need to use a CC?

If I'm going to use the free tier, why do I need to enter my credit card information? How can I be sure I won't be charged for it while I'm using it?


Google is ignoring my robots.txt

Here is content of my robots.txt file:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /upload/     Disallow: /admin/      As you can see, I explicitly disallowed all robots to index the folders `images`, `upload` and `admin`. The problem is that one of my clients sent request for removing the content from the images folder because .pdf document from the `images` folder appeared in the google search results. Can anyone explain me what I'm doing wrong here, and why google indexed my folders? Thx!


Web gallery system

is there a gallery app or code that will show image that has been uploaded in an certain directory and it will be shown normally but when people download it , it will put a watermark in it Any advice is welcome


Will adding X-Robots-Tag:noindex remove an already indexed page from searchresults

I have a site that has already been indexed by google and shows in the search results. After it had already been indexed I added the X-Robots-Tag:noindex header to all responses. Is that enough for it to be removed from the search results the next time google tries to index it?


Profile website - main site appears in SERPs, but profiles do not

I run a site with user profiles and while the main site is ranking, none of the profiles are. I know that the profiles don't have any backlinks yet, but I've noticed that my profile on a competing site IS ranking, despite not having any backlinks. Are there any strategies for getting profiles on a site to appear in SERPs?


How can I transfer files from one server to another server using FTP

How can I transfer files from one server `http://abc.com` to another server `http://xyz.com` I do have the ftp passwords of `http://abc.com` [source server] and destination server. Which tool can be used? Edit: **Instead of downloading files from source server to computer and again uploading from computer to destination server isn't there any shortcut way?**


How does font-size work in CSS

Could you please explain me or send me a link where is explained how does CSS property font-size work?   When you're working with relatives sizes in %. It's the percent of what? What are best practices etc. thank you


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All was working fine but then suddenly **Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress** came when I try to my site. Hosting:Godaddy PHP version:5.4.26 MySQL version:5.5.36-cll-lve Pleaes help as my site is down for more than a day andI am suffering earning loss


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Our yellowpages website `lokaterr.com` was getting good traffic,but suddenly traffic got reduced to 90% since may 3rd. There are no warnings or errors in Google Webmaster tools. Please help me out how to understand this issue. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n06GH.png)


Is the correct way for adding the author's name on Facebook Sharing to use: meta name="author"

In some Facebook posts I see the author of the page, beyond the title and description. For example, in the image below is the string "Di Redazione": ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iY0QX.jpg) Looking at the source code of the page:               http://www.tuttonotizie.info/notizie1/ultime-notizie-di/politica/25340-borghi-ai-sindaci-protagonisti-nel-processo-di-nascita-delle-unioni.html      I have seen that the author it is written with the string:               <meta name="author" content="Redazione" />      Is this the correct way to do this, or is there some other way? Searching Google didn't provide a thorough enough answer.


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I just starting trying to learn CodeIgniter. From the user guide it suggests to move the application and system folder for security reasons. I now have this structure:               ./public/index.php     ./app/     ./sys/      i've edited the index.php, adjusting the `$system_folder` with my complete path ending without slash and `$application_folder` with the compleate path without the final slash. I' ve also edited the database.php file inside application/config/ to let it connect to the database. Those data are right. Now, when i try to access `/public/index.php` i get a blank page Thanks for help


Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO?

The title attribute is an HTML standard element available across most tags. e.g. > `<li><a title="Widgets listed by household function" href="/widgets/by- > function.html">by Function</a></li>` I've used this attribute on some sites for usability; many browsers pop up a "tooltip" over the link with the more detailed description of what is on the other side. I've been wondering if doing so is having a negative effect on my rankings (hidden text?) or if it has any effect at all on onsite or offsite keyword relevance calculations. Does anyone know of any research done on this?


SEO Is it Good or Bad to add Company Name to Title Attribute?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO? So while I'm filling out title / alt attributes I noticed I was just automatically adding my company name to almost every links title tag (ex. title="Company Name Video Services", etc.) but is this a good thing or bad thing? Will the repetition kill benefit of the keyword? Should I fill it with better keywords since my company name should theoretically be everywhere in the content anyway?


Webserver timing out

I was working with my website yesterday when I was at home using my web address. Yesterday I installed Wordpress and it seemed to work. When I got to work today, I tried opening my website, and now the connection times out. I can still access my Virtualmin interface, just not the actual website. What could cause this, as I had made no changes to Virtualmin since it was working yesterday. Note: I have also restarted my server to try and resolve the issue.               Site: www.weekshouse.com     Server: Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)     CMS: Wordpress


Google Webmaster Tools reporting 404s for pages that are not in the sitemap (but were there previously)

Google Webmaster Tools is reporting 404 errors on URLs that are not present in the submitted sitemap anymore. These URLs were present but since then I have resubmitted my sitemap and GWT shows that it was, indeed, crawled again after the change. Is there anything I can do to stop Google from indexing these URLs without manually excluding them? There are quite a lot of them so I would love to be able to avoid doing it.


How to tell robots that site is viewable on mobile phones?

Is there any markup or meta-tag which I can place in the pages of my website to tell crawlers which pages are either for web or for mobile?


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Through a course of mergers and acquisitions the particular group of companies who I work for have built up a vast array of websites running either Kentico (or ASP websites that _will_ be using Kentico) and Generically produced PHP websites. There is no DAM (Digital Asset Management) and our holding company wants to keep all the identities apart, so you can imagine the blood bath that ensues around marketing endeavours. **What Media Library solutions are there which will work on both the Kentico CMS and for Hand-written PHP?** We use approval/versioning and some sites will soon be large enough to need CDNs (so some form of link referencing is needed). There are three scenarios where other solutions have fallen down:   1. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated and page a/b instantly use the updated image z instead of going through the approval process.   2. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved and instantly page b has the updated image z instead of going through the approval process.   3. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved, page b's update is approved, suddenly we need to go back to the previous version of page a and the older version of image z is no longer there. The added pain is that we need a central image library to hold things like model sign offs and past marketing compaign usage to avoid clashes between the brands.


Which resolutions should I make a favicon in?

I understand that you can create a `favicon.ico` with multiple resolutions embedded. Which resolutions should your average website support? Why? Edit: Performance should be a consideration. I want to keep the favicon around 1K to stay inline with these recommendations: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html


In HTML5, different browsers support different formats of video

Does it mean that I need videos of multiple formats so that it can be played on different browsers by adding multiple sources to the tag?


internet explorer can't open vcard

On my company's website, we have various professionals listed with links to download their vcard. We want to include a link to the vcard in email signatures, however when clicking a link to a vcard contained in an email doesn't work in IE (IE displays a "cannot download" error). I've inspected the response from the webserver using Fiddler, and the vcard response is exactly the same when viewing the link on our website vs clicking the link in an email. Also confirmed that copy/pasting the link to a vcard into IE's address bar yields the same error as clicking the link in an email - IE won't open it. It almost seems as though IE can't open a vcard unless you click a link (on a website) to the vcard. Going directly to the vcard doesn't work. **EDIT:** We're seeing this issue with IE7 and IE8 only. Vcards open consistently with Firefox or Chrome. The server response is shown below (edited to remove personal identifying info). I ran a diff between successful and failed responses in Fiddler and the only difference was the timestamp in the Date and REV fields.               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store     Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:16:43 GMT     Pragma: no-cache     Content-Length: 495     Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8     Expires: -1     Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727     Set-Cookie: website#lang=en; path=/          BEGIN:VCARD     VERSION:2.1     N;LANGUAGE=en:LastName;FirstName;E.;;     FN:FirstName E. LastName     ORG:Company Name, LLP     TITLE:Attorney     TEL;PREF;WORK;VOICE:+1 999.999.9999     TEL;PREF;WORK;FAX:+1 999.999.9999     ADR;WORK;PREF:;;Suite 9999, 5555 Somewhere Street;Atlanta;GA;30309-4528;USA     URL;WORK:http://www.website.com     EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:PERSON@Website.com     NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Bar Admission(s) - Georgia (1900); Kentucky (1900)=0D=0A     REV:20101220T211643Z     END:VCARD


Looking for non-paid heat map tools for website analytics

I'm looking for a heat map solution to track my users' behavior on my website, preferably free of charge. I've already googled a little bit and here is what I found so far. Still I would like to ask for some first hand experience, that'll help me make a better pick. Thanks for your help.


What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 2

This is a follow up question on the following question What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs Both of the solutions mentioned there would require modification to the files where the css and js file URLs are mentioned. So in effect it would require a restart of the application server after making the changes. Is there a better way, where versioning of static files can be handled without having to restart the Application server ? the following is ruled out in the solution   * changing the css and js filenames   * passing a query paremeter in the url   * the solution also should not affect setting cache-control or expires. thanks


Which Adult Ads Service is best / highest paying

I have a sex education & sexual health website. As evident, I can not place Google Adsense and Adbrite advertisements as they disallow mature content and even remotely anything related to it. Now, I want to know what are the other options I have for showing up ads. **I do NOT want to place very obscene and nude ads.** But, I would like to have some kind of ads on website to make it sustainable. So, what options do I have ? Which adult advertisement publisher gives highest payouts ?


How do I set a price for advertising on my website?

I have a website that I would like to advertise directly to advertisers (without using adsense, doubleclick, etc..). How do I find out a ballpark figure of what I should ask for in terms of CPC or CPM? Are there any published reports or averages I can refer to? Any advice in setting/negotiating a starting point for price?


how can I find out which websites are linking to mine?

How can I have a RSS of new sites that link to mine? I would like to know which sites are linking to us. Is there any way to do that?


How can I allow robots access to my sitemap, but prevent casual users from accessing it?

I am storing my sitemaps in my web folder. I want web crawlers (Googlebot etc) to be able to access the file, but I don't necessarily want all and sundry to have access to it. For example, this site (superuser.com), has a site index - as specified by its _robots.txt_ file (http://superuser.com/robots.txt). However, when you type http://superuser.com/sitemap.xml, you are directed to a 404 page. How can I implement the same thing on my website? I am running a LAMP website, also I am using a sitemap index file (so I have multiple site maps for the site). I would like to use the same mechanism to make them unavailable via a browser, as described above.


How can I create my authorship markup on a page that I’m going to syndicate on other sites?

In an interview Google Web Spam Team Head Matt Cutts stated that **“Syndication can be a valid way to either increase your reputation or to drive traffic and potentially to get more links. The main caution that I would add is that there are some mechanical things that you should pay attention to and try to make sure that you get right.”** He also stated that **“Things like rel=canonical help. Embedding a link within the text of the article itself never hurts. Ideally, you’d want to insist on some sort of attribution on the syndicated page. You can use authorship markup. So if you are also publishing the article on your site, you want to try and do these mechanical things so you are still seen as the original author.”** I know how to use rel=canonical in a page and also to create an authorship markup for a website but I don’t know how to create authorship markup for a webpage that I want to syndicate to other sites? Does publishing content of our webpage into others sites by only indicating Authors name and website is enough for authorship markup? For more information related to that interview visit : http://www.stonetemple.com/link-building-is-not-illegal-or-bad/ See the below image ![Matt Cutts interview about Link Building](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hIJ48.png)


Google Analytics - campaign and transactions tracking

I am using Google Analytics to track visits and transactions for my website. If someone is clicking on my campaign and don't buy at the same time but will visit my website the next day and then buy - will that be linked to my campaign or not? So what is the booking window (in days) in Analytics for campaigns. I am using Google URL builder to track campaigns I am running.


Track actions of paying customers

I'm looking for software that can analyze my Apache log files (or some other source) and tell me, from the visitors that actually bought something from my site, some profiling information; like time of their first visit, how long they spend on my website, what the original referral was, etc? In principle a tool like Awstats provides a lot of information, but I'd like to have it filtered to individuals. Edit: Instead of Apache log files / using IP addresses, I'm also happy to add something like php code to my site to identify returning visitors.


Basic semantic rules of CSS (and HTML), right or wrong?

Here is the summary I've recently learnt from discussions on this site (and similar) of 4 basic rules, so please correct me if I'm wrong or misunderstood something: **a)** Don't use IDs in CSS (or use it as few as possible) **b)** Use as many descriptive elements as possible such as `article`, `section` … instead of `div` **c)** Name classes according to the content, not appearance **d)** Don't use too many classes: "Don't give elements a class just because you can. It adds noise." (I don't know how to achieve this one though, because almost every element needs a class. If it's a section, there is another `section` elsewhere with different looks. Same goes for the `article`, etc.) This is kind of "philosophical" question, but the goal is to set some things straight for all readers to benefit; having constantly in mind the **rule of separation of content and presentation.**


How to delete Analytics property from list in Webmaster Tools?

When I look at the _Google Analytics Property_ page in Webmaster Tools (where you associate a Google Analytics web property with a Webmaster Tools site), I see a list of a bunch of properties with weird names. They are test properties from when we were trying things out years ago. I can't view them or change their name in Analytics because they don't exist there. All their profiles were deleted years ago. Is there a way to remove these from the list in Webmaster Tools? Or, alternatively, a way to view them again in Analytics so I can give them a better name, at least. I know this doesn't matter in the big scheme of things, but I hate clutter.


Multiple IP addresses for one SSL certificate

Is it possible to register an SSL Certificate for Multiple IP addresses? This is needed for one of my sites; which runs on two different servers with different IP addresses. One server is live; while other stands backup server. If live server goes down; we go live with backup server temporarily. Is it possible to buy one SSL with multiple IPs? or in worst-case; is it possible to have separate SSLs for both IPs but single domain name?


Why alexa doesn't crawl my site?

I was waiting for already 1 week and alexa still not recognize my site. I already put a robot.txt in my site. Locating in www.mydomain.com/robots.txt               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Please suggest why this happening, Thanks.


WCAG Questions about a web page issuing erorrs if cookies are disabled

I have a question regarding the web content accessibility guidelines. I have been asked to review whether a web application respects the WCAG 2.0 AA web standard. I have to indicate the criteria that are in error, with suggestions on how to correct them. In the application, there is a page that requires cookies to work properly. If the user has disabled cookies, there is a generic error message that appears. > # Error occurred > > Internal error occurred while processing your request. > > Please try again later. In my opinion, this would fail on the criterion 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions > The intent of this Success Criterion is to help users avoid making mistakes > when their input is required. To help avoid mistakes it is good user > interface design to provide **simple instructions and cues** for entering > information. Some users with disabilities may be more likely to make > mistakes than users without disabilities or recovery from mistakes may be > more difficult, making mistake avoidance an important strategy for users > with disabilities. **People with disabilities rely on well documented forms > and procedures to interact with a page**. Blind users need to know exactly > what information should be entered into form fields and what the available > choices are. Simple instructions visually connected to form controls can > assist users with cognitive disabilities or those accessing a page using a > screen magnifier. > > The intent of this Success Criterion is not to clutter the page with > unnecessary information but to provide important cues and instructions that > will benefit people with disabilities. Too much information or instruction > can be just as much of a hindrance as too little. The goal is to make > certain that enough information is provided for the user to accomplish the > task **without undue confusion or navigation**. However, some elements of the criterion seem to be focusing on user input. I think this would also fail the 3.3.3 Error Suggestion criterion since there is an error and possible solutions are known. However, 3.3.3 also seems to be focusing on user input. This could also be a user experience issue that falls beyond the scope of what I was asked, but should I mark those criteria as failed ?


Google Webmaster Tools Data Highlighter says "Failed to load data, please try again later"

I seem to be unable to access the data highlighter in Google Webmaster Tools since I attempted to start a new highlight on a page. Clicking the red Start Highlighting button to open the tagger did nothing, so I refreshed. Now, the page loads without the middle content section, then a few seconds later shows the following error: > ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vN40y.png) Failed to load data, please try > again later. I can't get any of the middle section to load, even the list of current pages/page sets that have been highlighted—this error shows. I thought it may be a Google service outage, but other sites' data highlighters work fine. It also seems coincidental that it stopped working after I attempted to start highlighting—I was able to list the existing pages and page sets fine before that, and still am able to access the service on other sites. I've tried clearing browser data and have tried Google Chrome as well—same problem. What's happened? ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zYk2b.png)


How much to charge for Wordpress installation?

I know this isn't properly a technical question but I hope this is ok here. The question is simple: **how much should I charge a customer for a Wordpress installation & configuration?** Configuration simply means I have to install him a theme (which is not provided by me), various plugins and maybe edit some lines of code here and there to make the whole thing work fine. **MORE INFO** I don't do this for a living, I'm just doing this for this single customer. He told me he wants to customize some features of the blog which I think will require a bit of code editing, but these will be small modifications, because I already told him that more substantial modifications will be billed separately. I don't know exactly how long will this take, but probably just 1 day for the setup and some more days to adapt the blog to the customer requests which will eventually come up later


Email provider - suggestions needed

We are looking for a good way to have email support. In theory, we need to allow end-users to send emails directly to support and careers. i.e. support@domain_name_here.com and careers@domain_name_here.com. Second, we need to provide emails to our staff. So each staff member has their own email address. i.e. joe@domain_name_here.com, meghan@domain_name_here.com, etc. Google Apps is one that we are considering. However, they are charging $50 per user, per year. Not so bad, considering the quality and the features they offer. However, there are also cheaper alternatives. i.e. my domain registrar offers an email plan for $20 / year / 10 emails. Go Daddy has a number of plans and still a lot more affordable than Google Apps. So far Namecheap and Go Daddy are the only ones I have looked at for email plans. Is it worth signing up with Google Apps? Or are there better alternatives? Your thoughts?


Google follows disabled options on "get" forms

I have the following `get` form on my website for language switching.               <form method="get" action="?">         <label for="language">Language: </label>         <select id="language" name="lang">             <option disabled="disabled" value="es">Espanol</option>             <option disabled="disabled" value="da">Dansk</option>             <option value="de">Deutsch</option>             <option value="en">English</option>             <option disabled="disabled" value="fr">Francais</option>             <option disabled="disabled" value="it">Italiano</option>         </select>         <input type="submit" value="GO">     </form>      This constructs URLs of the form `/?lang=en` and note that currently my site only has the following URLs available:   * `/?lang=en`   * `/?lang=de` Visiting anything else (e.g. `/?lang=fr`) returns a `404` so Google does not index them. What is a problem though is that the Google Webmaster Tools shows all disabled languages as broken links even though I've marked them with `disabled="disabled"`. I want to stop Google from trying to visit those links but I cannot use `rel="nofollow"` on those disabled options because I don't think that `rel` is a valid attribute of `<option />`. What should I do? Note that I don't want to remove the disabled options from the form.


Is it possible to know impressions of other websites?

Google Webmasters's Dashboard gives you a big number which is called **impressions** , and that I've seen in Google Analytics. By definition, it means the total number of times your site has been become eligible for SERPs. I just don't have an idea how to interpret this number, and how much its increase or decrease mean to me, because I can't compare it with other websites. I mean, if the impressions of say site `a.com` are 150,000, and the impressions of my site are 50,000, then maybe it implies that I need to triple my efforts to reach the impression rate of `a.com`. Yet, by seeing 50,000 impressions alone, I have no clue at all of how to interpret it. Is there any service or other way to know about the impressions Google gives to other sites?


SEO Meta Tags: Is it better to have empty meta content or no tag at all?

Basically, for pages that may not have a description or tags set, is it better to have               <meta name="description" content="" />     <meta name="keywords" content="" />      or just skip the tags altogether for those pages that don't have the information set?


Lots of repeated code in website?

I'm a playing around with website building by following the tutorials of user "createthenet", a.k.a. Timothy, on YouTube. The steps to follow are simple enough, but I notice that what he often does is begin with a template, then build pages off of that template. Not to advertise on his behalf, but I'll use his site as an example. When I click on "Welcome", "About", "Tutorials", etc., most of the site, such as the header area, remains the same. This saves work when building the site, but suppose I had 50 pages all with the same header area. Then if I decide to change the header area. I'd have to modify 50 files. Is there a better way of achieving this so that I can modify the header in one file, and it'll be reflected in the other 49?


Why is BingBot causing so many 404 errors by removing letters from url's?

Since the ForceRecrawl problem went away Bing has come back with some new trends. I'm seeing many URLs missing the last letter, or missing a few letters, and some other wired guess URLs. It also looks like I'm not the only one. I'm not getting these URLs from any other bot, and I regularly run a link checker over my site to check for dead links, so they're not coming from my pages. I wish Bing (and maybe all bots) would at least include one referrer in the request header to let us know where they got the link from (I know they might have more than one reference, but having one is a nice start). I'm also having trouble understanding Bing's indexing strategy, they index about 25% the number of pages that Google indexes, then they suddenly throw half of them out and start building up again slowly. Is Bing is trying to alter the URL's and see if it can navigate to pages by "guessing" URL's instead of harvesting them from the normal navigation mechanism? Maybe they cannot master parsing Javascript menu's? I don't know, but they are doing something crazy! Slightly off topic, but a nice conspiracy theory: There's another bot called "Ezooms/1.0" that's doing something similar: it adds spaces behind dashes it finds in URLs. (I think it's always after the first dash in the URL). By comparing the patterns, I'd almost think these two bots have been written by the same developer (though the mysterious Ezooms has a gmail address added in the user agent string).


Best way to handle ignored Rel=Canonical?

My Google Analytics is reporting organic traffic for URL's with a QueryString attached, even though there's a Canonical tag that points to the preferred (non-QueryStringed) version. Would the best way to handle this be the GWT URL Parameters Tool? I'm fairly unfamiliar with the tool, but after some research, it looks like this might be the best way to go. Does anyone have any good/bad advice for using the tool? Thanks!


How do you test non-live sites before switching DNS?

I have a few websites that I need to move to a new server - how would I test that they work before switching DNS? What URL would I navigate to?


I set up a website, and below is my main page. As you see I have added the tracking code, but when I login to google analytics, I see Google Analytics Status: Tracking Not installed. If you think there are no mistakes in below codes, how can I debug to find the problem ?                <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">                           <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />             <title>                 mysite is coming soon        </title>                                                                  http://www.mysite.com
                              is coming soon


Are there any advantages from an SEO perspective to remove the "/category/" base from the permalink?

On an WordPress site, there are ways to remove the `/category/` base from permalinks. Is there an advantage or a disadvantage for SEO to doing this?


Can the blog subdomain take precedence over my own domain in search engines?

Suppose I create a blog with SomeName in blogger.com or tumblr.com. So the address is SomeName.blogger.com or SomeName.tumblr.com. I need some clarification as to the situation when I want to use MyOwnDomain.com for the blog:   1. If I simply go to the control panel of my domain registrar and setup MyOwnDomain.com to redirect to SomeName.blogger.com, then I shall expect that the blog will show up in search results as "SomeName.blogger.com"?   2. If I add MyOwnDomain.com in blogger control panel and edit the A and CNAME records of MyOwnDomain.com with the information provided in blogger, then the blog will show up in search results as MyOwnDomain.com? Is this guaranteed? Are there any other SEO dangers to using Blogger or Tumblr when you want to promote your own domain?


Google Optimizer code, validation and cdata

I ran my site through the W3C validator, and a bunch of errors were caused by the Google Website Optimizer javascript. It seems weird that would happen. If I put CDATA around it, the error go away. I _assume_ that the code will still work? So, I'm wondering if there's ever a time it's bad to put CDATA around javascript? and Why would Google's javascript snippets not validate in the first place?


Did Google Delete my index?

I have a website that I haven't had much time to take care of. I updated it 4 times since last October, the contents are all original and informative. I can see those cache from Way back Machine and the site was indexed in Yahoo, but not in google. Did I get my index on Google deleted because I did not update it often? Normally Google crawl often and index fast, I just got really worried if I did something wrong. Is it possible that I set something wrong in the hosting or something?


Why deny access to website for msnbot/bingbot?

I've seen quite a lot of tutorials that recommend you to ban user agents containing the strings libwww-perl and msnbot. I understand why one would ban libwww-perl, it's mainly if not only used for hacking and spamming. But why are there so many sites recommending to ban msnbot/bingbot?   Since it's a search engine, even if only with a marginal market share, I would except one would want this bot to crawl one's sites. What is it that msnbot does that makes people ban it?


SEO: make the home page location specific or add a new page for location?

My homepage is coming up on the first page in Google search, main keyword is "balloon decorations". We provide local service in several cities, but homepage does not mention the location, visitor has to go to "contact us" page to see the list of cities we service. I was given an advice by SEO company to optimizing the homepage to (Boston balloon) and (Boston balloon decorations) to make it location specific to get listed in the searches with keyword (balloons) originated from Boston. Then make landing pages for the other cities, and put link from home page to them. There are a few things I need help with:   1. If I do that, will I sill keep the place on the first page in search for "balloon decorations"? Should I leave (balloon decorations) in meta tags?   2. What are my chances to get on the first page of search with new keyword phrase?   3. Is it better to leave the home page as is and add one more landing page for Boston? I was told, that it would not be very effective and will take a long time for the landing page to come up on first page of search.


General website publishing questions involving domain forwarding issue

Even though I have been having a certain level of knowledge and experience about web development I have never interested in obtaining a domain and publishing a website from my own server. Since today I have been struggling with getting my own domain and configuring it utilizing web sources. I started with learning the outline of web publishing process including web server installation, deploying a website for testing purpose,router port forwarding, getting a domain and forwarding domain to my router which will also forward http requests to my web server I am confused about some parts and so far could not get the web site accessed from outside of the network. All I try to do is just for learning purpose so I do not pay much attention to security issues for now. I have Server 2008 and IIS 7.5 installed. I use a laptop and have access to the modem over wireless and my modem is Zoom x6 5590. Well I will continue explaining what I have done so far and what I think will be after each action I did, I have successfully had access to my website on any local computer entering the internal ip address and port pair of the host machine in a browser. Next, I forwarded port 80 of my host machine creating a virtual server like 10.0.0.x(internal ip(static) of the host) - TCP - start port : 80 - end port : 80 in router options. Now I suppose every request that will come to the public IP on port 80 will be forwarded to my host machine(10.0.0.x) over port 80. So If everything went as desired, the website listening on port 80 will accept the request and process the issue and finally respond bla bla bla... I suppose to access my website from outside of the network by entering `http://MyPublicIp:80` in a browser but I couldn't accomplish this task by now despite using Godaddy's domain forwarding tool,I see a small view of my website when I click the "preview" button that checks whether the address(`http://publicip/Index.aspx`) I entered where my domain will be forwarded is available or not. I am sure that configuring domain does not play a role in solving such a problem since using public ip and port matching does not help. So here is the first question, What is the fact that I face this problem? After that, I have couple of question regarding domain forwarding using Godaddy tool. Can I forward my domain to a any port for example port 8080 other than default HTTP port 80? Additionally, can I use a sub-domain to forward to a different port of the host? What I want to design is if the client enters `www.mydomain.com`, website1 will respond over a specified port and after when a client enters `info.mydomain.com`, another website which listens on different port will respond. I tried to add a sub- domain and forward it to a address like `http://www.mydomain.com:8080/Index.aspx` with no success. Can I really do that? Finally, what if I have a ftp site listening on the default port 21 and I create a domain like `ftp.mydomain.com` that will forward to that ftp site address. Is it possible to use sub-domains for ftp site access? I know I am more than confused but no matter whatever and however you reply to me, you will help me have a more clear view on this subject. Thank you very much from now. * * * To be more clear, I have already had an application that is actively listening on port 8080 and furthermore I have configured my router to forward any incoming request on port 8080 to my server ip and port point. Unfortunately unlike doing the same for port 80, I resulted in no action. Perhaps you know when you forward your domain name to your host ip - port - uri location using Godaddy tool, you have the chance to see what page actually a domain will forward. So no preview was shown as a result. Again, a program listening on port 80 and incoming request for port 80 is being forwarded on router successfully and when I configure my domain to forward that location I see the small preview which will prove that it works. But applying same thing for port 8080 shows no preview which I think something causes fail for it to work. Questions 1 - When I want to forward domain to specific location, I get only HTTP/HTTPS protocols available. Does that mean that I cannot forward any sub-domain to a ftp application? If not so how? 2 - There are actually two things that confuse me. A - Even though I have configured everything as far as I know to access a web page,   still no access from outside of the network.I have neither virus program installed nor windows firewall open for testing purpose. The steps I have taken;   * On IIS 7.5, created a website listening on port 80 and a web page called Index.aspx located at the root of the web site.   * Router is configured to forward any incoming request through port 80 to my local computer(has static Ip) where the web server is running.   * have register a domain and forwarded that domain to `http://mypublicIp:80/Index.aspx`.   * The result is when I click the preview button on Godaddy tool for forwarding the domain, I truly see the page where the domain points in a small preview screen but when I try to access it from a computer on the internet, nothing happens. B - When I publish the same web site on port 8080 and have the other configurations done, on Godaddy tool, I write `http://mypublicIp:8080/Index.aspx`, I get no preview of the web page. I did actually the same but no luck.


Easy user management on html site?

I hope I'm not asking a question for which the answer is obvious...If I am, apologies. Within my html site (i.e. not Wordpress, Joomla, etc.) I want to be able to have a level of user management. That means that some pages I want to be only accessible to certain people with the correct username and password. What's the best way to do this? Are there any available scripts out there? I guess I'm looking for a free/open source version of something like this: http://www.webassist.com/php-scripts- and-solutions/user-registration/


should you let search result page to be indexed

I have a pages of a catalogs, which contains a list of keywords of all products inside that catalogs, and I want to create a link from those keywords to a search page. For example, if the page contains a keyword of `television 24", electronic, sound system`, if user click on each of the keyword, it will open a page `/search/television 24"` for example. Should I let those pages indexed or should I block it with `robots.txt`?


Do search engines remove pages from the index for any 400 range status code return? We are using 400 range HTTP codes to differentiate messaging for different categories of pages when a particular type of content is not found. There are some concerns that this content will not be removed from the search engine indexes as they would be if a proper 404 response is returned. Has anyone used this method before to return customized error messages that can validate that these other codes are indeed removed from search engine indexes?


How to customize icons used by Facebook wall?

When you share a link from The Globe and Mail to your Facebook wall, you get a little custom icon (maple leaf) next to the "Like" button, instead of the usual general page icon. Looking at the Facebook page source, you can see that the icon is stored here. However, going back to the Globe and Mail page and looking at its page source, it's not clear where this icon is actually coming from. At first I thought Facebook was grabbing the site's favicon.ico or iPhone icon. But if you compare the icons, they are clearly different both in color and in shape, not to mention size. ![Icon from Facebook Wall](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Z2FPb.gif) ![Favicon of Globe and Mail website](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XENlP.jpg) ![iPhone icon of Globe and Mail website](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bGXaJ.png) Is this something Facebook has done on its own end? Or is this something any webmaster can control for his own website? ![Screenshot from Facebook wall](http://i.stack.imgur.com/g0vdI.png)


What would be a good web based open source or low cost learing collaboration tool for high school students?

Have about 60 kids that are working on a science projects in two groups. Each group would like a web portal where they can discuss topics relating to what they are building, post questions, pictures, videos, and keep their project going while not always in the same class room. Also, I would like to host it personally and not have it accessible to the entire web. What would you suggest for such a requirement?


Email hosting for managing emails across many domains

I wanted to get peoples thoughts on integrated email hosting solutions. As a webmaster/web developer, I own many domains and would ideally like to incorporate all those emails into 1 interface, like I can with Outlook on my desktop. However, because I have a day job, I do not want to load all my email accounts into my work Outlook, yet want to check it periodically. I am also tired of having all these emails forwarded to my personal email, since my responses are then going to be from the personal email. This pushes me in the direction of Outlook's web access feature. Outlook is just fine for me, as I can create sub-folders within folders for my emails, and archive mail I dont readily need. However, when reviewing prices online, it looks like to have this ability, I'd have to pay $5/$10 per email account per month. If I want to make 15 accounts, that's $150/mo just to use the web access feature. I may as well buy my own email server for that much. Are there low-cost alternatives to what I'm looking for? Perhaps there is a company that does it for much less than those I've found so far? What do you guys do to effectively manage multiple-domain email accounts as a webmaster? Thanks!


How to SEO a search only website?

I am in the progress of building a website for a client of mine and something worries me. Basicly, the client wants a google like site ( search - display results ) just for companies ( like a phonebook directory of companies ). I have built the website with only one page ( front page ) which also provides the search results. What worries me is how can that site rank on search engines? Would the content on the front page should be suffice for ranking? Can you think of any other problems I might have from using this type of system?


Is there evidence that linking to quality, reputable and popular website helps with ranking?

Is there any evidence that linking to external quality, reputable and popular websites helps with ranking (directly or indirectly)? Is there an established correlation? Some posts on the web do claim it, but without providing any evidence. It is known that if your website links to bad neighborhood, this will harm your reputation and authority, but does the reverse actually help? And, does it matter if the website is young or old in this case? **Update** I have found this Moz video revealing there is a 0.04 correlation with ranking.


Can too many shortened URLs trigger a ranking penalty?

There are many URL shortening services available on the net, any of which could shorten the URLs. Can too many shortened URL trigger a penalty? Has anyone observed this? P.S. I am analyzing a backlink profile for a website.


Which of this is search-engine friendly - google?

Which of this is search-engine friendly - Google?   1. www.example.com/keyword    2. www.keyword.example.com    3. www.example.com/keyword1-keyword2 Please explain the logic behind while answering and rate them. Give me some more tips about subdomain SEO, like www.keyword.example.com


Home pc as server

My dns A-record point to my home PC IP that most of the time is down. Does this fact can cause any troubles with my registrar or there is nothing to be worried?


Will Duplicate Websites Hurt Local SEO?

So, lets say I do marketing for Unicorn Vendors. There are unicorn vendors in every city in the US. I'm tasked with creating websites for my clients. Will it hurt my local SEO rankings if I make a generic website that applies to all unicorn vendors, but use different domains/logos/header and title text for each client?


Is AdWords ad blocked from top spots of SERPs until it is reviewed?

I have an AdWords ad and a keyword with a Quality Score of 10. Inferring from CPC from actual clicks, max CPC is set way beyond that of the third advertiser from the SERP for this keyword (there are three ads in the top). Still the ad is shown on the 4th spot which located either on the right or at the bottom of the SERP. The only catch is that the ad's status is "under review". Is it the reason why it's blocked from the top spots?


Is making AJAX site crawlable AND degrading gracefully with JS turned off possible?

According to this spec, making AJAX site crawlable by Googlebot means that you have to use hashbang (#!) links in it which means it won't degrade gracefully when JS is turned off. This might mean that crawlability and graceful degradation are mutually exclusive. Is it in fact so? Is there something that can be done about that?


Recent statistics on HTML usage in the wild?

I have seen some fascinating statistics about what HTML markup is actually in use on the web. There is Web Authoring Statistics from Google in 2005, and MAMA from Opera in 2008. Have there been any similar studies more recently than this?


Prevent Googlebot from following JavaScript redirect

I run a website called isitsnowingoutside.com as kind of an experimental project. As I am still learning- it is far from perfect. The basic premise is the site uses your location to determine if it is snowing. Currently I have it setup to use the new javascript geolocation. If the user denies access to that or it simply doesn't work there is javascript redirect that will forward the user to a page where I attempt to find their location by IP address. Currently I have the javascript redirect wait 10 seconds. Unfortunately, when google indexes my site it follows that redirect and the search results display the url for Mountain View- not my homepage. I tried adding no-index to the subpages in my site but now it just doesn't show up in the results at all. Any ideas?


Someone registered a domain through google, how can I redirect that url to another site?

I need to be able to automatically redirect a URL that was registered with Google to another URL. No access to server or anything like that. Is there a way to do this with just messing with the DNS?


SQL Server and hosting

I'm looking for an ASP.net webhost, to run my site with an SQL Server database. I've found a good host, but like all of them, adding on SQL Server costs a fortune for some reason, or I can just use SQL Server 2008 R2 Express for free on them.   * Is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express good enough for a medium size website?   * What are the limitations with SQL Server 2008 R2 Express?


Google Sites: code block - how to disable wrapping

I'm using Google Sites to host the wiki-like website. I noticed that code blocks have text wrapped in them. Instead, I would like to have the code non-wrapped and with horizontal scrollbar when needed. Has anyone accomplished this? I would like to do this without Html-markup editing of each post that contains a code block.


cost for hosting a largish online radio station

How much does a connection for an internet radio station that feeds maybe a 100K users cost to the company that provides it? Do you have to be in a special location to get such an upload capability or do you send it to broadcasting company, and if so how much would that cost?


Is there a third party JavaScript that adds Facebook Chat style messaging to a site?

I'm looking for a service (happy to pay) that will provide Facebook style chat to users of my website. I'd expect it to work somewhat like Disqus but probably require a bit more work to implement user account integration.


PHP framework for this specific use case

I have to develop a site like `http://www.monster.com` with these standard set of features:   * Users should be able to register, login, create their profile, upload their resume and photo.   * Site Admin(s) should be able to post jobs. All the users whose profile matches the posted jobs should be notified of the new job. I have one year experience in PHP, but haven't used any frameworks (CMS) up till now. I looked at WordPress, Laravel, CakePHP, Drupal, Joomla, etc. but couldn't decide which one to choose.


Who is Automattic and why are they visiting my non-Wordpress site so often?

Of the various people and organizations that have engaged in scraping activity, Automattic is one of the strangest. They have numerous independent IP ranges, as if they know they will be blocked so they want to make it hard. But who are they? Why are they scraping my site? **Update** By scraping I mean excessive unwarranted visits to my non-WordPress site. Like visiting the same page 10 times in under a minute. Or visiting every day. I've had to ban their many IP ranges, which are ranges located in many geographical regions.


Doing affiliate program with shops who don't have a program already set up

I am developing an online shop which has managed to agree with other shops to a comission per sale. Now, the problem, is these other shops don't have any kind of affiliate system. So my question is, is there any way we could arrange an easy way for this? They don't plan to develop anything as they are small shops, so... my only guess right now is to control on my site how many times the links to them have been clicked to have an estimate of potential clients, but don't know how they can know that user came through my site and purchased something. Thank you very much for your help!