Google does not find/ignore alternate hreflang content

I have a problem with Google indexing our site in different languages using the alternate hreflang. It's a forum and every thread is translated in the background and based on the language, the user choose in his options, the original text is replaced by the one in the right language. So every User can write in his own language and the other users can still read it (somehow - I know it's not the best solution, but it was not my idea :D ) So - now we have the forum in many languages and of course we want the users form every language to find us via google. So i created some php-files, which get the right language by php and not by javascript. So the head in the original file looks like this:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=de"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=en"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=fr"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=es"/>      On this pages the language is shown in the right language based on the url not on the users choice so that google can index it. But you guess it - For some reason it does not work. Google only saves the content from the original file - not the alternate files for the different languages :( You have any idea?


use subdomain on different host

I want to accomplish something that I thought was simple. My wish is as follows: I have a domainname with hosting, a WordPress multisite (with subfolder setup) installed and running: gangleri.nl. I have another domain _at another host and without hosting_ : monas.nl I created a subdomain on gangleri.nl: monas.gangleri.nl and the domain redirects to that subdomain. Now what I want is to have monas.nl act like a website, not a website in a subdomain. I would like to have post urls as in monas.nl/posttitle. I first thought to do this with the DNS settings of Monas.nl. I now have an URL forward, CURL is not what I want and I did not manage to get A-records or CNAMEs to work. I tried using the htaccess file of the WP installation in monas.gangleri.nl. I tried 301, rewrite and whatnot, but also without success. Meanwhile, I have been reading so much that I no longer have a clue what to do. A-record doesn't sound probable, since I have no IP for the subdomain, so an A-record would point to gangleri.nl rather than using the subdomain. Also I have no idea if I should do something in the DNS settings of gangleri.nl or monas.nl, both, one of them and something somewhere else. I have the idea that I've tried everything, but the more I try and read about it, the less I can get my head around. People talking about A-records to subdomains while I can only use IPs, CNAME settings that my host doesn't support or something. Could somebody tell me if what I want is possible and if so, take me by the hand and guide me through it?


how long after a 301 redirect can i cancel my old site

I have .com website which I don't want to use anymore (for a variety of reasons). I want to redirect the entire site to a .net domain with a 301 redirect. After how long can I cancel my .com domain entirely? What will happen to the linkjuice added by 3rd party websites which point to the .com domain? Will this be transferred to the .net domain?


Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For?

In Today's market many shopping carts and ecommerce solutions are available on the web. What are the essential features someone looking to start an online store should look for before choosing software?


Small, fast shopping cart setup

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For? I'm looking for an open source shopping cart solution that's simple and easy to setup. The requirements are:   * Quick setup for someone familiar with *nix webservers.   * Checkout via PayPal (other payment methods not needed).   * Customers should not have to create an account to make a purchase.   * At least a minimal level of inventory control.   * Ability to print/export a list of orders in compact form. Any recommendations for something I should try? Ability to get it up and working quickly is really my priority right now; if it's not ideal, it can be replaced (or, as I'm looking for open source, I can adapt it to fit the requirements better) at a later time. **Edit:** Really what I'm looking for is simplicity. This will be for a small local business, and the orders will consist of 1-10 items that are being delivered by a driver who needs a simple list of what each customer received when making delivery. Looking like a giant online computer/electronics/etc. store is definitely not a desirable quality. The simpler the interface presented to customers (who are used to purchasing through dumb web forms and paying COD), the better.


Firefox doesn't render one character with imported font (Chrome does it well)

I've run into an issue with Firefox. Check out the example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/BuLhF. Basically, with the font _Poiret One_ , embedded with Google fonts, the letter `ō` doesn't render properly in Firefox but in Chrome it is ok. Edit: Screenshot: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B58rXlxeBUsIMXo1MnJrRFczbFk/edit?usp=sharing. Moreover, on Virtual Machine Ubuntu, Firefox is displaying it ok. The host Windows 7 has this problem.


Image appears differently in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome

![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/X72nb.png) This is a screenshot of the same image file on my website (viewing the image itself), in Firefox on the left, Safari in the middle and Chrome on the right. It appears as if Chrome has a more blue color in the image. Why is this?   * (Chrome Mac 28.0.1500.95)   * (Firefox 23.0 Mac)   * (Safari Version 5.1.10 (6534.59.10) Mac)


Is there a penalty in link building?

If I have a satellite site with content constantly renewed, and within each new content, there is a link to a target URL, for passing link juice. Will I get a penalty from Google for that?


No description for any page on the website is available in Google despite robots.txt allowing crawling

I seem to have the weirdest issue with Search Engine Optimization, and I asked the IT folks at my university, I asked people on Joomla forums and I am trying to sort this issue out using Google Webmaster Tools for more than 2 months to little avail. I want to know if I have some blatantly wrong configuration somewhere that is causing search engines to be unable to index this site. I noticed a similar issue with another website I searched for online (ECEGSA - The University of British Columbia at gsa.ece.ubc.ca), making me believe this might be a concern that people might be looking an answer for. Here are the details: The website in question is: http://gsa.ece.umd.edu/. It runs using Joomla 2.5.x (latest). The site was up since around mid December of 2013, and I noticed right from the get go that the site was not being indexed correctly on Google. Specifically I see the following message when I search for the website on Google:               A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.      The thing is in December till around March I used the default Joomla robots.txt file which is:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /cli/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/      Nothing there should stop Google from searching my website. And even more confusingly, when I go to Google Webmaster tools, under "Blocked URLs" tab, when I try many of the links on the site, they are all shown up as "Allowed". I then tried adding a sitemap, putting it in the robots.txt file. That did not help. Same exact search result, same behavior in the "Blocked URLs" tab on the webmaster tools. Now additionally, the "sitemaps" tab says for several links an error saying "URL is robotted out". I tried those exact links in the "Blocked URLs" and they are allowed! I then tried deleting the robots.txt file. No use. Same exact problem. Here is an example screenshot from Google's Webmaster Tools: ![Index Status for my website showing no crawl errors and no blocked URLs, in direct contradiction to what the sitemap tab says and what the search result says! FRUSTRATION!](http://i.stack.imgur.com/c9tn9.png) At this point I cannot give a rational explanation to why this is happening and neither can anyone in the IT department here. No one on Joomla forums can seem to understand what is going on. Based on what I explained, does it seem that I have somehow set a setting in the robots.txt or in .htaccess or somewhere else, incorrectly?


How to fix Google Apps for Business reverification failures?

We have one member of the company using Google Apps for Business so he can use the Google SMTP server with domain email. We verified him as an owner of the domain by uploading an HTML file to the root of the website. We clicked the provided link and were told that he was successfully verified. But now, on the verification page inside Webmaster tools. I see a long list of failed verification attempts. The method column says either "Google Analytics" or "Meta tag". When we log into Google Apps for Business, it says "Domain is verified. Mail set up is pending." We aren't going to set up the email because we aren't going to move all users to Google Apps. Is there somewhere in Google Apps to specify what verification method to use? Or is Google going to keep trying every single day to re-verify by the other methods?


Button to +1 both website and Google Plus page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage People can +1 both our website (ie. +1ing the URL of its home page) and our Google Plus business page. It would be desirable to link these +1s, so that +1ing our website added to the number of +1s for our Google Plus page, and vice versa. Is this possible? Is there any way to add a button to our website (possibly using some hand-written javascript) which +1s both? # Related questions A similar question's been asked at Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage and I see others - like Google Plus button versus page's pluses - are being closed as 'exact duplicates' of this. However please note that the accepted answer to the former question appears to be incorrect, as I point out in my comments on it. Hence why I'm creating this new question to give this issue a chance of achieving an appropriate answer.


Older post not indexed, new post indexed right away?

I have a post I created yesterday that was indexed rather quickly by Google. However, I have two other post that I created within the past 4 days that are not indexed and I cannot find a trace of them within the SERPs. Any idea what my cause this to happen?


mod_rewrite: rewriting http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING

I'm trying to make `http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/` transparently rewrite to `http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING`. The config below is giving me a 404 and I'm not sure why.               ServerName www.example.com     ServerAlias *.app.example.com          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*).app.example.com     RewriteRule ^/(.*) /app/%1/$1      I'm missing something obvious, what is it? Edit: let me make this a little clearer. If I browse to `http://www.example.com/app/abc`, I get a page. If I browse to `http://abc.app.example.com/` I expect to see the same page, but I'm getting a 404 instead. Edit2: The DNS record for `*.app.example.com` is already in place and I can see my request in the access log, with the 404 status. Edit3: After enabling the mod_rewrite log file, it appears that the post- rewrite path is "$DOCROOT/app/abc" which fails because it doesn't exist. This is a Python/WSGI application, I think that has something to do with my problem. For the moment it looks like we'll just use a regular redirect instead.


Canonical'd pages on subdomain showing up in Google search results

You might have heard that we launched Facebook Stack Overflow yesterday. As part of this, we modified our code to put `<meta rel="canonical" ...` tags on every question and user on the facebook.stackoverflow.com domain that points to "vanilla" Stack Overflow. For example: iAd error "Ad inventory unavailable" on facebook.stackoverflow.com   &   iAd error "Ad inventory unavailable" on stackoverflow.com On facebook.stackoverflow the html contains the meta tag               <link rel="canonical" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3720459/iad-error-ad-inventory-unavailable">      The intent there is to tell Google "these are exactly the same page, impart all page rank to Stack Overflow's copy and prefer it in search results". This seems like the point of rel="canonical". > A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly > similar content. > > It's common for a site to have several pages listing the same set of > products. For example, one page might display products sorted in > alphabetical order, while other pages display the same products listed by > price or by rating. For example: > > If Google knows that these pages have the same content, we may index only > one version for our search results. Our algorithms select the page we think > best answers the user's query. Now, however, users can specify a canonical > page to search engines by adding a element with the attribute > rel="canonical" to the section of the non-canonical version of the page. > Adding this link and attribute lets site owners identify sets of identical > content and suggest to Google: **"Of all these pages with identical content, > this page is the most useful. Please prioritize it in search results."** However, we're seeing Facebook Stack Overflow results and sometimes they even outrank vanilla Stack Overflow (an example). Maybe this is something to do with having an independent sitemap.xml for facebook.stackoverflow.com (sort of a shot in the dark)? ![example Google search result](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Alm3H.png) So, what are we doing wrong here? We're kind of hoping to keep searches of the form `site:facebook.stackoverflow.com` working, but giving those up is totally acceptable if a total `rel="noindex"` is required.


Google Webmaster Tools - crawl errors

I know that I can "clear" the crawl errors for Not Found pages, but I did completely remove the pages that I'm getting the errors for (no 301s, those pages do not exist anywhere anymore). Should I do anything about it, or will they be "fixed" automatically after some period of time?


SiteAdvisor advice?

At the time I submitted my site for testing with McAfee's Site Advisor as I noticed my site received a bad review as a spam/scam site. See here .   1. From a development perspective, how important are things like this? I know from a user perspective, I stay away from the sites that have a bad rap in Site Advisor.   2. The bad review was not even related to my site content, but was given due to my registrar(think it's Enom). Now I have to question if anyone knows if it's normal for sites to be rated according to the registrar and not content?   3. This question is not so important but it interests me that after a year, my reply to my review has been ignored. I have to ask if it's even worth worrying anymore about this?


SEO Question - allintitle with or without quotes

I'm trying to learn more about implementing basic SEO strategies and have been spending a lot of time refining my keywords using Google Analytics combined with manually checking them using Google's allintitle operator. However, I'm unclear on whether I should be using quotes with my allintitles. Example: allintitle: seo tips and tricks for beginners 191 results allintitle: "seo tips and tricks for beginners" 70 results My thought is that it would be more accurate to use it without quotes because that way you get a more well rounded idea of all those you are competing with. So, my question is does Google give more weight to exact matches in the title tag or does that not really matter? If someone searched for: seo tips and tricks for beginners, would they be more likely to see the ones that have that exact phrase in their title tag or does that not have any impact?


What are good options for hosting video that give you privacy and control (not youtube or vimeo)?

I have used http://www.longtailvideo.com/bits-on-the- run,http://www.influxis.com/, wistia for video hosting. Wistia didn't allow the finer control that we wanted to have. Influxis doesn't have the features that Bits on the Run has but platform usage for BOTR gets expensive. I was thinking of moving the videos to Amazon CDN. What are your thoughts and experiences with video hosting and are there any recommendations? Videos will be privately streamed to 100's of doctors offices.


is it true that CloudFlare really doesn't affect dynamic content?

I've been reading the CloudFlare FAQ, I understand that is acts as a reverse proxy and **all** requests to your domain will go through CloudFlare. They say in the FAQ that it won't slow down dynamic content, is this even possible?   because all dynamic content requested will be requested from their server, than their server needs to request it from your server and than send it to the client.   That's at least they I understand it. It seems to me like this would slow down dynamic content. So is it true? CloudFlare doesn't affect dynamic content?


Implications of SEO for single page websites

I built a server application that handles bot requests for my website, which was built using AngularJS. It works great, but I'm not entirely sure if it's valid in terms of Google's policy for SEO. In short, the server hits the API that powers the site and generates a static html, which it then serves to any bots that access the site. The static html file or 'snapshot' displays the same information as it's sibling page which is rendered on the browser, but I'd like to just display a slightly modified version for the bots to read. Is this considered a violation of Google's SEO policy? EDIT: I've already seen this : "Single-page" JS websites and SEO but the top answerer indicates that he is not sure of the implications that may occur if you adopt this model.


Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO?

I thought frame and iframe are something bad for SEO. Today I was doing some search and **searching for "numismatica" in Google.it** and the 3rd site is **www.lemonete.com** (ranks high also in Google.com). **It's all made with frames.** A competitor site (www.nummus.com) that is all done with no frames ranks much lower when searching for the same word: "numismatica" So can we use frame, don't they hit SEO ranking anymore? Any explanation (possibly simple) would be appreciated also about the fact the 2nd site ranks much lower. :) * * * UPDATE: thanks for all the replies , I noticed now I wrote down the wrong url, it was not lemonete.it (which is just a spam site) but lemonete.com.


SEO for Backlinks Using JavaScript on a Third-Party site

We are currently implementing a widget that companies can put on their website. We give the publisher a script tag with the source pointing to a javascript file hosted on a CDN with the code they need to load our widget. However, we are not currently getting any backlinks from websites that have our widget on it. We understand that Google is having a hard time indexing the links because it is injected on the client side with JavaScript. We're looking for SEO friendly ways to get credit for our backlinks without injecting them server side. We've come across a few options, but there is little information on a clear answer:   * Including an html anchor link in the snippet of code we ask publishers to put on their website. However, we wouldn't want the link to be visible to the users, so we'd need to hide it in a SEO friendly way.   * Using a no script tag that includes identical information as the script tag (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en) will not work because the information inside the script tag is just pulling a file. Can we use a no script tag with different information (e.g. a link back to our site)? Are there any other possibilities? Will either of these options work?


What's the best way to create a widget for blogs?

I'd like to let bloggers to embed my widget, but there is a problem: If I create a JS widget, or an iframe, I will not get any benefits from SEO. So, there is a smart way to let easly embed a widget and leverage SEO? My widget should just retrieve my RSS FEED and shows thumbnail, title, and link to my website


I have many backlink from other sites too one page of my site with hidden iframe. Has a positive or negative impact?

am sorry for my bad english. i have a site for download free website templates. i create a simple html file in my site and put my histats & google analitic code on that. then put a hidden iframe to this page in the free templates like this :(To increase the number of visitors to my site)               <IFRAME style="display:none;" SRC="http://www.domain.com/df/sdff.html" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>      now after two years i have about 60000 daily visitors just to this one page from many of sites who using my free templates. please answer me step by step 1- is this backling The negative or positive effect for my site ranking & seo ? 2- who to i can delet this page from my site No further negative impact to my site ? 3- who to i can reject this backlink from my server ? because if this page will be delet all of the back link redirect to 404 page & this page in my site is large & The server puts a lot of pressure. please help me. thanks


Do iFrames hurt SEO - looking for clarification...

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO? I know this question if floating around the internet all over the place, and generally the answer is "yes" - but most of these posts are so outdated, and it is hard to get a realistic answer. So here's my question: It is generally considered that you should not use iFrames because google cannot read the content in the frame. But by the very nature of an iFrame you must link to the content being displayed, so wouldn't google just simply follow this link in your code to that page? Also if you are using navigation to change the page in an iframe, these nav buttons link to that page, why can't google follow that? And on top of that including a Sitemap, and footer links, should also provide adequate links to follow. I understand that using php includes is considered a better way to go, but I am not sure you could limit a large page to a small area (on a parent page) with a scroll bar like you can using a frame. Am I right? wrong? totally crazy? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.


web widget and SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites? I'm designing a voting widget that other people can put on their websites, and the widget will have links to my site (partly for functionality and partly for SEO). I'd like to design the widget such that my main website, gets the SEO benefits, and I'm not sure which techniques for designing a widget would accomplish that. Here is what I am thinking:   * Creating a widget defined by `<div>` tags that people would embed in their web page -- This seems certain to give my site the SEO benefits, but it seems like it might be more work for the person using the widget to get it to work right and look nice.   * Using an iframe -- I think that the iframe link would get the SEO benefit and not my website, which would be linked to from the contents of the iframe.   * Google Gadget -- I don't know how this works yet. What would be the best way to design a web widget to maximize the SEO benefits for my website?


How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites?

I made a widget that would ideally live on other sites. Here is an example: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 I guess since the widget would link back to me, it would be an SEO boost for my site. Is that correct? Or would it be just an SEO boost for that particular URL? If it is just an SEO boost for the particular URL, it does me little good since that page does not link to any of my other pages. Am I thinking about this correctly? How are these things typically handled so that there is a benefit to my site's SEO?


SEO guidelines to allow users to embed the page in their websites like youtube..etc

In my web app, I want to allow user to embed the content in their websites (as in youtube, twitter, facebook...etc). I see two approaches for generating code:   1. using IFrame   2. load the content into a using jquery or other JavaScript  But both are not SEO friendly. Is there any guidelines/resources which should be followed for good SEO and performance in this case?


Can your embeded code on other sites increase seo rank?

I'm working on a video hosting website and I'm wondering how my embeded code would affect my seo rank youtube and almost all, major video hosting websites are useing iframe as their embedded code, some of them are using "player" sub domain so, I thought it will be a good practice using player subdomain as things may change in the future.               <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//player.mywebsite.com/embed/Bp222aodrVg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>      In my case player.mywebsite.com is actually an CNAME(alias) for mywebsite.com. will player.mywebsite.com effect the rank of mywebsite.com?


SEO linkbacks from iframe widget

We're building a story player for kids. Here a user can embed any of our stories in his website/ blog using our embeded widget tool. Essentially this is just an iframe that can be embedded anywhere. Now, some of our friends have posted about his and included this story in their blogs, bur I don't see any linkbacks. Does google crawl content inside iframes? Does the parent page get any SEO value from these widgets? I'm totally new to SEO. Can someone please help me with this?


backlinks from hidden iframe to one page of my site.Has a positive or negative effect on my site seo?

i have more than 60000 backlink too one page of my site because i put a hidden iframe in my free products. like this:               <IFRAME style="display:none;" SRC="http://www.domain.com/df/sdff.html" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>      this backlinks Has positive or negative impact on my site ranking & seo ?


Wamp local host defaults to IIS 7

I have disabled IIS7 in my machine. installed WAMP server. Stopped skype, antivirus which used port 80. When i ran Wamp server, phpmyadmin is working great and when i click on localhost it is showing Default IIS7 page. Can anyone please help me out , how can i avoid this and get wamp localhost.


Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down?

Are there any services that will monitor a web site and report if it goes down, or experiences unreasonable response time? Which are reputable and recommended? How does the service notify you when your site is having problems?


Desktop Software to monitor online status of web site and web-based application

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down? I'm basically looking for a desktop-based software which can monitor my company's website and the web application's online availability. I know there are few online applications like Uptime Robot which does the same work but I have been asked to find a desktop based software which can monitor running in system tray and notify any down-time. A free software would be great. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


Does Google Microdata have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in Google search results?

Does Google Microdata for rich snippets have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in search results? I want to add the rich snippet to my page, but I don't want it in the format that is required. So I thought I could add it as a hidden div, but I'm not sure if that will work.

<asp:Literal ID="ltTitle" runat="server" />

<asp:Literal ID="ltMetadescription" runat="server" />

         <asp:Literal ID="ltAddress" runat="server" />         <asp:Literal ID="ltZipcode" runat="server" />          <asp:Literal ID="ltCity" runat="server" />         <asp:Literal ID="ltProvince" runat="server" />          <asp:Literal ID="ltCountry" runat="server" />

      Thanks!


Ajax mixed with Server Side results for SEO purposes

Here is the issue. We are using a third party service to index our products and return results based on query parameters that we pass to the third party services server. I'm using Magento's framework. Here is how it works: I place a curl request to the third parties server with the various query parameters taken from both the request and pre-defined variables(filter,sort,etc) passed through a particular pages layout update. The response is turned into an array and a collection is queried from our database based on the SKU's that the third party supplied through the curl request and they are displayed in their own div. Secondly we get results from their service through their javascript api. At the callback of the results being returned I hide the divs that display the results that are generated server side. As a result , if javascript is disabled .. and more importantly , if you are a search spider coming to the site, you will still see results. My question is: Are there any problems with this model? Could we have any seo penalties as a result? Any other suggestions?


Should meta descriptions be unique for each page?

Specifically, I'm wondering about pages that have a purpose that is sort of removed from the main site. For example, a privacy policy page - would you duplicate the description of the main page or is it best left alone?


Google Analytics and direct access

Does Google analytics regards remote access resources as direct access? For example: Suppose: mysite.com and anothersite.com mysite.com has an image found at http://mysite.com/img/vip.jpg anothersite.com at some page of it like http://anothersite.com/photos.html included vip.jpg in its source in image tag:               <img src="http://mysite.com/img/vip.jpg" />      So does Analytics regard loading this image when a visitor vists http://anothersite.com/photos.html to be a direct access for mysite.com?


Traffic vs. click-through rate?

In theory, shouldn't CTR and organic traffic be closely (if not almost exactly) correlated?


I want to be a freelance web designer. What other up to date technologies/skills would you add to this list?

Technologies I need to know: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, jQuery, CSSLESS, ASP.NET, SQL, WordPress, PHP Skills needed: media querys/responsive design, browser compatability, graphic design, user interface design, typography, accessability


Amazon RDS And EC2 On Two Different Region. How Much performance Loss?

if for an application, amazon ec2 instance and amazon RDS instance be on two different Avalability Zone/Region, how much performance degradation are expected?


What does GA returning visitors calculation mean?

I'm a bit confused as to what 'returning visitors' mean in Google Analytics. If a user visited my site a year ago, and now returning, will he be considered a returning visitor? Is there any way to specify a time-frame, and calculate stuff like 'visitors that come at least twice a month'?


CreativeCommons licence

I want to use some pictures that are published unter the CC Attribution 2.0 Generic licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The licence says that I have to provide a link to this licence and that I must give appropriate credit. But where and how should I provide this things on my website? Do you have experience with this kind of "problem"?


Why shouldn't I use Amazon S3 for hosting a static webpage

I remember reading somewhere that there was a serious pitfall to using Amazon S3 for hosting a static website. I forgot what it was though. To me, S3 seems like a perfect option. Super fast, super scalable, and pay as you go. What are the negatives of using S3 to host a static website?


Blocking all search engines except the big ones

I would like to somehow be able to block all search engines except Google, Yahoo & Bing (and their related sites like Google Images) from crawling my site as they consume a lot of server and bandwidth but don't bring any traffic. Is this easily done or difficult? It would be good if someone maintained a list of small search engines that could be pasted into a robots.txt file to block them. Also, I realize I cannot block crawlers that ignore the robots.txt or sites from surreptitiously scraping and crawling, but that is not what I want. I just want to block all the Altavistas, Hotbots, Lycos (do these even still exist) and the university experiment crawlers from wasting my time.


Handling pagination, sorting and results per page with SEO-friendly URLs

We have an e-shop which has pagination, sorting, and a 'results per page' limit option. What is the most SEO-friendly approach to structure my URL's? My first thought was: `http://www.example.com/category/filter/page:1/sort:price-asc/limit:20` which is pretty ugly. And although I could force the robots to index the pages without sorting and limit options, my analytics won't be very clear. The other issue is that I used colons, which I read is not good to do. Is there a standard/better structure? Is it true that colons are bad to use? Should I try a more traditional structure like: `http://www.example.com/category/filter?page=1&sort=price-asc&limit=20`


Should I use 'robots.txt' or 'sitemap.xml' to get dynamically created files indexed in search engines?

I've structure my video site like this:               / (root)      index.html     -/videos        -/video-id1  (dynamically generated subdirectory when user uploads a video)             /index.html  (dynamically generated file when user uploads a video)      The subdirectories and files in them are created dynamically each time a user uploads a video. I thought using a `sitemap.xml` would be a good choice to get those files indexed in search engines because using PHP I can edit the sitemap dynamically after each page is created. But this is quite hard to do (since it's an XML document). So I thought of using a `robots.txt` instead of a sitemap to get them indexed, but would that be helpful at all for this? In other words, I'm trying figure out how I can submit dynamically created subdirectories and files to search engines? Using Stack Exchange as another example, how do questions like this one get listed in search engines every time a user asks a questions? I think they use `sitemap.xml` for every question, as can be seen here.


Any recommendation for hosting provider for hosting Wordpress CMS website (not just a blog)?

I want to host a Wordpress CMS based website. Any recommendations for a easy and reliable hosting provider. I have heard about lots of issues when hosting wordpress with my current host. This is based on Wordpress version 3.0. Thank you.


Custom short URLs

I'm creating a WordPress site for a client and he mentioned that he would like his own custom URL shortening when sharing to Twitter. How do I go about setting up one of these? If I had to guess, I would guess that it's a separate domain that redirects to the actual site. If that's the case, then how do I get the URL to redirect to the specific post and not just to the homepage of the site?


Are Meta tags useful for SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which meta tags are not worth the effort? Reading a Search Results with this or a similar phrased question can lead to reading a lot of conflicting answers. Are there any meta tags that matter in SEO? From what I have read I do know that meta keywords are no longer used (or so little it is not worth using them) and don't worry with using them. Meta Description tags are not used for page ranking but can effect click through rates so should be used but be less than 160 characters. I know the following meta tags exist:   * author - the author's name and possibly email address   * robots - to allow or disallow indexing by robots   * copyright - the copyright date of the page How much do these meta tags matter and are there others that are new (including ones that may not be used by all but might be used in the future or are used by only one of the big players like Google or Bing) meta tags that should be included? Note: Even if a meta tag doesn't matter in SEO _but_ helps with click through rates similar to the descript tag does then feel free to include it with your answer.


How to align images left or right using semantically named classes?

I want to align images in a text. Some pictures should be on the right side and some other on the left side. I can achieve this by adding `class="right"` or `class="left"` to the `img` element. But these classnames are presentational, not semantic. Any ideas how to align images using semantically named classes?


Putting a website in a directory above the public_html,Can search engines find it?,Is this website crawled by search engines?,What is the solution?

I have a Linux web host and I have added some other domains beside the main domains,as add-ons domains. I have created a directory beyond the main public_html directory, for each of them,and all of thier contents are in those directories,you can open the websites,by typing their URL in browser,but nearly more than two month after the creation of the websites; after searching their URL in Google,nothing is showed up in the search results,for example if you search the "yahoo.com" phrase in google,the number one result would be the http://yahoo.com result,but I assume the search engines could not crawl a website in a directory beyond the public_html,is this true? what is the solution? Please note that I am not talking about Google specifically,I am asking about all of the Bots on the web. and about the directory,I meant for example in the website1,website2,website3 directories.                  /website1        /website2        /website3        /mail        /logs        /includes        /public_html            /images            /admin            /users


Any success with asp.net and Less/Sass

I wanted to dive into learning some asp.net with C# and I wanted to know if anyone has had **success** with using Less or Sass? All I can find search wise is little bits of info and some suggestions with a ton of issues. I'd really like to find something **solid** on a successful site that has implemented Sass or Less, documentation, or a site that has a list of full issues and suggestions. I have:   * Google searched "asp.net and Less   * Google searched "asp.net and Sass"   * "asp.net successful sites with Sass"   * "asp.net successful sites with Less"


301 Redirects in a WordPress site: What will Google Analytics report?

Scenario: user goes to Google and performs a search - one of my old pages shows in the results (a page I have just created a 301 quick redirect for using an app within WordPress) - they click on my result and are redirected to the new page. Question: will this user show-up in Google Analytics as a direct visitor? If not, how would they show as far as their traffic source?


How do I prevent subdomain finders finding subdomains on my server?

How do I prevent the following website and similar tools finding subdomains of domains in my server? https://pentest-tools.com/reconnaissance/find-subdomains-of-domain


CNAME | A-Record | MX Record | Problems

I have a domain (e.g. domain1.com) and I only want to CNAME re-point the A-Record to domain2.com CNAME re-pointing will affect both A-Record and MX-Record. I do not want to affect the MX record, but I need CNAME re-pointing because I want all the viewed website pages to be domain1.com sub-pages, (not domain2.com sub-pages). How can I do this?


Is it possible to track an outsourced adwords campaign?

We have a site that is paying a 3rd party to run adwords campaigns on our behalf. They do this using their own Adwords account and so we are unable to link it to our Google Analytics account. We do have our own Adwords account for the site which is linked but the majority of campaigns are being run by this 3rd party. At the moment, in our Adwords reports (ie the Adwords section within Google Analytics) we are seeing that for the majority of visits the campaign and keyword data is not set. I am assuming that this is because even though the visit is being recognised as coming from an Adwords account, because it is not the Adwords account linked to our Analytics account, we don't get sent the campaign and keyword information. Is this correct and if so is there a way that we can start tracking this information so that we can see for ourselves how the campaigns are performing?


How can i use the HTTP_REFERER to come from a specified domain name

I know the HTTP_REFERER method has a security loop, but it most cases it works fine. How can i use it, to limit how a user see other pages on my website, instead of just directly clicking on the link or pasting it on the browser. Specifically, i want the referer to only work if the referred url came from the same domain name? And not from another source.


Is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free?

I was looking at reseller hosting at host xxxxxx. They provide unlimited free SSL certificates which I can resell to my clients. This looks too good to be true. I sent them a mail if they're self-signed, but I haven't got a response yet (I sent the mail 15 minutes ago). So I am wondering: is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free? I don't think so but it's worth checking. I have looked at Are there any usable free options for SSL certificates? by the way, but my situation is different I think... Thanks! **Edit** : maybe it's handy to know which SSL certificates I may resell...


Analytics not showing Adsense data

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Problem integrating Adsense with Google Analytics I already posted on the analytics help forum but nobody replied, so I thought I would ask here. Basically, I have an Adsense account that and use it to show adds on 2 websites, and an Analytics account for these two websites. Now I linked the account ages ago (when I only had one website in the analytics account), but now that I have added the second website no data shows for it. For the first website, I get the data normally, for the second website, I get the weird error saying I need to connect to my Adsense account first. Anyone know why this happens?


.htaccess - lose the file .html extension

I'm having a bad .htaccess day! I want a user to be able to type the URL > mysite.com/about instead of > mysite.com/about.html On .htaccess file I have:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /$1.html [NC,L]      But this simply does not work? I will add though that if i try this further inside the site e.g.               mysite.com/pages/contact      Works perfectly whether I have the above code in the .htaccess or not What am I doing wrong?


Links shortener with advanced reporting?

I am searching for a script (preferably in PHP) or an external solution which lets me create an "URL shortener" with advanced reports. We have been using Google Short Links for a while: it works really well, but it lacks reporting (it only displays a counter with the total number of redirects). Our setup is as follows: "go.mydomain.com" points to the web service, and we can create links such as "go.mydomain.com/product1". What I'm looking for is a similar service (or self-hosted solution) but with advanced reports, so we can track redirects by day, month, etc, distinguish between mobile and desktop users (very important!) and so on.


If I have a breaking news and assume that i am the first person to know. How can I get top place in google search? Please assume that I do not have a domain yet. Please give me some tips. Thanks. Hope you'all will appreciate my question.


Registered a .PRO domain, can't change DNS for 120 days?

I noticed the following in Gandi's terms and conditions for .PRO domains: > Once the domain has been registered, you cannot modify the contacts or DNS > for 120 days. What the heck? How am I supposed to point a .PRO domain at my host then?


Page caching Is not working

This is my htaccess file.I also embedded webcaching code inside it.               DirectoryIndex index.php     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     #RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.decodinghinduism.in     RewriteRule (.*) http://decodinghinduism.in/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]     </IfModule>      **`Webcaching code`**               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##          <Files 403.shtml>     order allow,deny     allow from all     </Files>          deny from **.**.      But Webcaching is not working ,Analytical result is here.Please help me.


Is there something wrong with my .htaccess or is there something wrong server-side?

I'm using the following `.htaccess` file in one of my subdirectories on my server:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule (.*)\.png generate.php?userid=$1      My non-production environment handled the above just fine without a hitch. However, when implemented on my live production environment and accessed, the server load goes through the roof and no webpages are loaded until the process is killed (I don't actually know the process, the other administrator just does it for me.) So, is it my production environment that is set up incorrectly or is it that my code is sloppy/incorrect?


Does Google consider my blog page as duplicate page if that page URL and that page URL with ‘showcomment’ cached separately?

While I’m searching all the index page of my blog I found that Google cached one of my blog page http://example.com/page.html as well as http://example.com/page.html?showComment=1372054729698 These two pages are showing while I searched site:http://example.com. I’m so afraid about it because these two pages are same with same content. Does google consider these two pages as duplicate? If so what can I do now? Is it really a big problem to my blog?


Temporarily disable magento extensions from the back end

Is it possible to disable a Magento extension from the backend without uninstalling it or disabling it via the code?


Role of a domain registrar

Few months back I bought a domain name and started using it through custom domain feature of Google Blogger. Since then my site was unavailable several times with different error forms:   1. A 'Not Found' text on the home page   2. No browser could not connect to the site Now since a week the site is totally inaccessible. It never loads. I tried using services like justping and Whydown. The former one reports 100% packet loss from all server locations while the latter reports a 503 error. I am unable to understand whether the problem is from the domain registrar's side or Blogger's side. Last time when I contacted domain registrar over 'Site not found' issue they affirmed that it would be Blogger's problem. I find it hard to believe that problem occurs from Google end. So this time before contacting Domain registrar's customer support I want to arm myself with technical details on what is causing the problem. If someone could guide me in debugging my issue it would greatly benefit me. For your information the website with the above problem - http://www.staygeo.com


Adwords ad group quality score

I've heard some Pay Per Click consultants claim that having poor performing keywords in an ad group effects the quality score of other keywords and Google uses a form of quality score for the entire ad group. Are quality scores for keywords independent of other keywords?


Google SMTP relay sending limits

I'm considering using Google Apps for email with my company domain and for sending emails to customers from my website using SMTP. On Google's website it says the following: > **Limits for registered Google Apps users** > > A registered Google Apps user cannot relay messages to more than 2,000 > recipients per day. > > **Limits per domain** > > Per-domain sending limits are determined by the number of users in your > Google Apps account. There are two per-domain limits: > >   * **The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day is > approximately 130 times the number of users in your Google Apps account.** >   * The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain in a 10 minute > window is approximately 9 times the number of users in your Google Apps > account. > > > Additionally, the maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day > for accounts not yet paid for during the first month of service is 100. If I'm a single user, with a single domain, then does that mean I can only email 130 people a day using SMTP? That limit seems low.


Adsense account was disabled, whats the problem can you check it out?

I have been maintaining adsense account from past 4 years, I got violation alert for audult content. I was saying that only disabled ads for **www.idleindia.com**. Still account account is in active. After i have removed all related content and sent my appel to google. Later I got below mail. > It is important for a site displaying AdSense to offer significant value to > the user by providing unique and relevant content, and not to place ads on > auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content. > > Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear > navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through > your pages and find the information they are seeking. > > Please review Google's Webmaster Quality Guidelines ( > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66361 ) for > more information. > > Google ads may not be placed on pages with adult or mature content. This > includes, but is not limited to, pages with images or videos containing: • > Strategically covered nudity • Sheer or see-through clothing • Lewd or > provocative poses • Close-ups of breasts, buttocks, or crotches In thi mail it is stating that no original content, In my site i will post all the content related to Telugu Movie medial, I am purchasing all the photos from tollywood photographer, and coming to the content, I have written by my own. Can Any expert please review my site and please let me know what are the modifications I need to do for my site to regain the ads.


Does resubmitting a modified site map affect current ranking?

I have a old sitemap dated 2012 that I submitted in Google Webmaster Tools. I want to resubmit a modified sitemap, but I am worried that my current ranking might suffer. Does anyone have a way that I can resubmit and make sure my site's current rankings don't drop?


lead capture apps

I'd like to build a lead capture website, where a visitor is required to enter their name and email address in order to receive a free report for download. Do you know of an app which will let me store captured information in a database, and present the download link to them after registering? I guess this can all be accomplished using a contact form script with database integration and jquery confirmation message.


In Google Analytics, how can I plot behavior over time (example: Session Duration)

Is it possible to plot or graph "Behavior" over time? In particular Audience->Behavior->Engagement->Session Duration. I'd like to know if we're getting better or worse. So far I've found a way to compare two periods, but not to plot the trend.


Using dash in folder names and linking for image

I have image folders where I use dashes in the name for example: "images/01-12-2011/example.jpg" When I insert this image into my html. Internet explorer(9) shows the image but Firefox and chrome doesn't show it. When I type it to the url: (blabla.com/images/01-12-2011/example.jpg) then i can see the image. What could be the reason and the solution? thanks in advance


PHP URL Rewrite engine for small project

I use PHP. I want to setup a micro site as a prototype, where I can work with the frontend only, separated from any CMS. **URL Rewrite** I also want the URL rewrite to be correct, like `http://www.test.com/products/tables/green/little-wood123/` **Question(s)**   1. Is there any free class for URL rewriting? I searched but found none.   2. If that is not the way to go, what framework is nice for this? It should be tiny, easy to use and support URL rewrite.


How to verify that someone owns a website?

I'm trying to think of ways to, as securely as possible, verify that a user owns a website that they claim to own. Here are some ways I've seen:   * Upload an obscurely-named HTML file to the root directory with given contents   * Include a meta tag or other comment somewhere in the home page source   * Send an email to an address `@domainwearetryingtovalidate.tld` with a verification link   * Check a CNAME or TXT record   * Check WHOIS records   * Physically validate by calling or emailing the support line, manually updating records And here are the problems with those methods, in order:   * Some website configurations may not allow for simply uploading a file to the root   * Poor site design might allow a user of that site to add this meta tag themselves   * Websites which provide email services make this useless; take `gmail.com` for example   * That's too complex for most small website owners to figure out how to do   * Those are public; anyone can claim to be whoever. Not to mention most often inaccurate.   * Huuuuge waste of time Are there any other ways to verify that a user on your site owns a particular website? Of the methods I listed, which of these are best and worst? I ordered them from best to worst in my own opinion, but I'd like to see what others think as well. I plan on implementing one or more of these in PHP.


FF multiple instances on same host thinclients

Im ICT manager at a primary school. Last year our school switched to one host/server pc (Windows 2008 server) and thinclients. All thinclients are connected to the server/host pc. I found out that it is not possible to start multiple instances of Firefox on the host under the same Windows user account. For example: if a user connects as "group1" by a thinclient to the host, and an other user uses the same login credentials from another thinclient, FF responds with "Firefox is already active...". I read some posts on internet regarding this subject. All are referring to Multifox -add-on. However, that is not what I'm looking for. Has anybody dealt with this issue? Anybody knows a managable workaround? Kind regards, Kees Epema


How to embed my website videos in facebook via status

I have a Joomla website having a lot of videos, I want to embed my videos in facebook by sharing via status update like you do when sharing youtube video. When you paste a link there facebook automatically extract the video and embed there. On my website I have videos but when I paste the link there on facebook it just treats it as a page not as a video. I want my videos to be playable there on facebook without redirecting to my website. Is there a way i can achieve this?


Long lasting free web hosting

I am looking a free web hosting site which is long lasting. It is because one of the free web hosting which I have been using, have shutdowned their free service. I am looking for some web hosting which is big enough so that it won't die easily or charge money after a period of time. It should support wordpress. It would be best to have python and php supported. Do you have any suggestion?


Moved sitemaps to a different subdomain and losing search referrals around the same time. Red herring or correlation?

We started to lose search referral traffic around the same time that I moved some of our sitemaps to a subdomain. Could this have hurt us? I followed Google's steps to creating a sitemap under a different subdomain. The new sitemaps.foo.com subdomain is being crawled and indexed well. Both www.foo.com and sitemaps.foo.com have been verified in Google Webmaster Tools. They appear as distinct sites. Is this correct? I can't find a way in Webmaster Tools to say "Hey, sitemaps.foo.com is really owned by www.foo.com, so show them together and make sure to attribute sitemaps.foo urls to www.foo" Our www.foo.com/robots.txt               Sitemap: http://www.foo.com/sitemap.xml     Sitemap: http://sitemaps.foo.com/subdir/sitemap.xml.gz


CloudFlare DNS: Downtime failover host

My company uses CloudFlare for its DNS, but as our site is HTTPS-secured and we're on the free plan, we can't utilize CloudFlare's CDN services. Our host has fairly rare but not insignificant downtime. We can't migrate servers just yet, and I'd like to be able to either have the main domain redirect to the status domain, or simply resolve to the alternative status host in the event of downtime so users will stop bugging me asking if the site is down. Is this possible to do automatically using the free CloudFlare plan, or will I have to manually edit my DNS every time the site goes down?


What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing?

This is a silly question but i am bit confused. Can any explain What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing the pages? Thanks in advance.


Overriding link action with ajax - SEO

If I override default link href with onclick and ajax, for example link `<a href="/mypage">`, so onclick I load mypage through ajax, if javascript is disabled, or its a text browser or bot, I let go to /mypage, is this good enough for SEO as having regulat /mypage link with no javascript and ajax? What I want is to have same content as without ajax, but to load it via ajax for better user expirience. Wonder if that can be achieved with same SEO effect? I assume for google bot it will be the same, but this page /mypage will not appear in analytics, no referers...maybe that is the weakness of this approach?


Does YouTube videos embedded on my website consume my bandwidth?

I will like to know if embedding YouTube videos on my website consumes my bandwidth when the videos are being viewed.


EU Cookie Law Clarification

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer?   >  Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the > EU? I have a legal entity registered in India. My sites are hosted in US. Bulk of my traffic is from Asia and US, though I get some traffic from EU countries. Do I have to worry about the new EU Cookie law? Is it applicable only to companies / webmasters from EU?


How to offer a cookie opt in/out to users?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? I intend to use google analyticts, and as I understand it I will need to offer users the option to opt out of cookies. The question is this: I HATE these constant cookie option boxes, everyone I ask it getting annoyed by them too. Its nice to have the option, but we all know they have been in use for well over a decade. So - how big of a deal do I have to make about the fact that I'm using GoogleAn? can I pop a small link at the bottom of the page, maybe integrate it into "Privacy policies" page, and give people the option to opt out there? This would be very much the "Assume the majority of users don't mind, but at least make the option available" stance. Ironically setting a cookie seems to be the only way I can see to enforce the opt-out! as IP's change.


EU Cookiee Law - Should I be worried?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? Given that the year-long "grace period" is up in a day or two, I'm trying to figure out if this law is... serious? It just seems -completely- ridiculous to me, but I'm not posting here to debate that. Given that 99% (probably more than 99%...) of UK websites I visit _are_ using cookies for tracking and other purposes, is this law really enforceable on such a large scale? I run 3-4 low traffic sites and only use cookie's set for/by Google Analytics. I really dislike the idea of having to implement a plug-in or form of consent since it would degrade the user experience. Ironically, I would have usually stored whether or not the user wants to allow my site(s) to use cookie's by storing their option **in** a cookie. Should I be worried about complying with this new [outlandish] EU cookie law? Or am I 'small-fry' enough (low traffic sites, only using GA) to not be targeted by the authorities?


Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the EU?

I have been reading up about this EU cookie law, and have also had in depth conversations with my girlfriend who is a solicitor/lawyer and with colleagues while building websites. While we are now working towards implementing a way to abide by the EU law, I have thought of something which no one really knows the answer to and has caused a few arguments. It's my understanding that any website in the EU must abide by these cookie laws, which is understandable. However, say if I were to have a .co.uk or .eu domain name pointing to a website which is hosted in America for example, do I still need to abide by the EU laws even though the website is hosted outside of the EU? One person I have asked has said that because the domain name is .co.uk or .eu (a European TLD) then the website is still accountable under EU law. Another person I have asked has said because the actual website is held outside of the EU, it doesn't actually have to bother with this law.


What is the maximum number of characters in the utm_content param in GA?

For example, we want to differentiate people who followed our daily product email blast. I could use the product ID for utm_content, but it would be easier to read to use the SEO friendly URL path, such as: http://www.oursite.com/products/ **really-great-new-product** https://www.frugg.com/? utm_source=a&utm_medium=b& utm_term=c& utm_content=Can-I-use-a-really-long-content-tag-like-this-one-or-is-this- going-to-break-something& utm_campaign=d


AdWords test with two different agencies - can I track their results without them being aware of each other

I am currently going through a process of testing two AdWords PPC providers at the same time from two separate AdWords accounts. However they will require access to my GA account for linking and eCommerce tracking. Which means that they will be able to see each others results. I don't want this; Is it possible to set up GA so that;   * Company A only sees Adwords results associated to their AdWords management via GA    * Company B only sees Adwords results associated to their AdWords management via GA And each company never sees the other company's Adwords results?


Joomla 1.5.26 won't let me insert html

I am using the following code to try to embed chat in to an article in Joomla 1.5.26: `<iframe src="http://xxxxxxx.com/welcome/visichat/" width="100%" height="550px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>` Whenever I hit save, the code disappears. Actually, it seems that any html code I try to save disappears. I am trying with the toggle editor tab and the insert html button. Does anyone know why Joomla won't let me embed html? I am trying to get the chat to load with the site navigation still in place. I'd also be interested in hearing other ways to accomplish this.


Why is the EU cookie directive causing so much excitement?

I am confused by all the excitement surrounding the EU cookie directive; why is it such a painful thing? As far as I can see cookies that are required for your site to function are allowed such as shopping carts and site logins. Am I missing something here? The original HTTP specification was designed to work in a stateless way so to my mind this is a stepping stone in the right direction towards stateless RESTful websites. Why should state be added to the process when it is not needed. There is plenty of mileage left in Digest Auth etc so why is everyone worried? An obvious answer might be that Google Analytics needs to set cookies to be able to track traffic. There is a somewhat unsatisfactory answer to this point: http://cookies.dev.wolf-software.com So have I missed something that I should be panicking about? What has you worried about it?


Is there such a thing as a Google Result Set simulator?

I am always making tweaks to my site, be it in the .htaccess file, some new SEO plugin, different types of content or whatever. For all these changes, I would really like to be able test it immediately and see if the change had any positive or negative effect. I am just wondering if there was some way of doing immediate testing using some simulator instead of having to wait for Google to discover and index it - which could take a long time.


Keyword research tool

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are some great tools to use for keyword research? In the past I've always chosen which keywords / phrases to go after by checking the traffic in the keyword tool, checking the competition for those keywords, their backlinks and PR and then by reading though all that and going on gut instinct. I know SEOMoz has some functionality for this but are there any alternatives you could recommend ?


How can we determine how much to spend on advertising our site?

We're considering pay-per-click advertising to bring traffic to our website. How should we go about determining how much to budget? Any other considerations we should be aware of?


Can anyone recommend a good HTML 5 book?

Specifically about canvas. I have been looking around for a few good one.


Decoding an encrypted HTML file using Javascript

I am trying to decrypt the encrypted page source of an HTML file. I am searching for a decoding trick to decrypt a page containing Facebook interface UI. It is in the following post decrypted facebook UI page. The demo page of that post is encrypted. Is there any possible way to decrypt it?


DNS provider for unlimited subdomains with api access?

I have a project in mind that will offer users their own domain, like tumblr does for example. I want to find a provider that can provide:   * One top domain. eg: myproject.com   * Unlimited subdomains. eg: a.myproject.com, b.myproject.com, ...   * An API to create subdomains automatically   * At a reasonable price (if possible).


Custom Sitemap or sitemap generator tool

I have recently launched a website which is using a free sitemap generator. It's a large travel agency site with predominantly dynamically generated content - users can add their products as and when and be listed automatically. The guy doing the programming for the site says the sitemap generator is not up to the job and that I should be ranking far better for certain search terms than the site is now. He reckons it doesn't provide lastmod info and the sitemap should be submitted every time a new directory is added or change made. He seems to think that I need to spend £400-£500 for him to custom build a site map. Surely there's a cheaper option out there for a sitemap that can be generated daily or 'ping' Google every-time an addition to the site is made or product added? Sorry for the non tech speak - I've got my web designer telling one thing and the programmer another so I'm just left trawling through Q&As.


Google Analytics is not tracking all of our pages

Our website is insynchq.com. In the All Pages report under Content -> Site Content we can only see data for some our pages, like /, /getstarted, and /download. Others, like /gmail, /about, and /mobile are not shown, even if we are sure that there have been visits to them. We use a template for our pages so the scripts that are loaded for / (for example) should also be loaded for /gmail, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with the installation of the tracking code. Can anyone help? Thanks.


Using one IP for Nameserver like NS1 and NS2

Please I like to know why I can't use my one IP on my nameserver like:               ns1.mydomain.com = 67.111.78.12     ns2.mydomain.com = (but the IP could be assigned here)


Why is honest cloaking for Ajax considered bad practice?

Ajax-only websites are laden with many problems. Search engine invisibility is merely a small problem. They are also unbookmarkable and unlinkable and they break the functionality of back- and forward-buttons without hacks. Fundamentally, they are not how the web is supposed to work. Even so, Ajax is indispensable to the user experience and Ajax-only applications are cleaner than hybrids in both code and logical structure, more powerful, and more extensible. I can think of three solutions:   * **Cloaking.** While cloaking typically bears the connotation of spamdexing a page with irrelevant keywords served only to a crawler, I mean serving a no-script user agent a stripped-down HTML file with exactly the same content that an Ajax client would load asynchronously (including the same hyperlinks), but without the fancy UI. It's intended for obsolete browsers as an alternative to progressive enhancement, not just for crawlability. _Rationale:_ it doesn't waste no-script users' bandwidth with script tags or script-enabled users' bandwidth with noscript content that will be loaded anyways in JSON format. _Drawback_ : it raises a false flag of search engine ranking manipulation, of which search engines are apparently hypervigilant. It is also difficult (at best) to recognize all potential user agents and differentiate correctly between those that execute scripts and those that don't.   * **Hash-bang fragment identifiers.** _Rationale_ : It doesn't appear deceitful to Google. _Drawback_ : it is an absolutely backwards hack that violates the W3C's standard (by using illegal URLs) in favor of a trick invented by a third party. URLs are no longer Uniform **Resource** Locators; they are pointers to application entry points plus macros that Google and modern browsers luckily follow. This technique does nothing for true no-script browsers and it breaks any technology that follows the W3C more strictly.   * **Progressive enhancement.** _Rationale_ : this is championed as the way to use Ajax while adhering to the original vision of the web. It lets user agents with different capabilities act differently toward the same resource, and a hypervigilant client doesn't think it's being deceived. _Drawback_ : it wastes bandwidth with script tags at best and redundant content in noscript tags at worst, defeating part of the purpose of Ajax. If not for search engine hypervigilance, I would consider cloaking to be the best solution, although it would be much easier if clients would merely send an HTTP header (or lack thereof) indicating if they will execute scripts. Is it really that bad of a practice? Is there a way to prevent false flags of search engine manipulation? Or am I too paranoid of false flags in the first place?


CSS Sprites: Are they worth the trouble?

I can't help but wonder whether CSS sprites are very much over-used. First of all, if I stick all my images in a single file it makes an aweful lot of empty space. I know, that shouldn't make an image file too much bigger, but _sprite.png_ by itself is generally going to be bigger than ( _small1.png_ + _small2.png_ ... + _[http headers for all those individual connections]_ ). Second, any individual image attributes that might make an image file inherently small or compressible are lost on _sprite.png_. For example, a grayscale image stuck in a not-grayscale _sprite.png_ is no longer grayscale. Third, all those CSS blocks add up. If the following is all you have to add to your old fashioned `<img src=small1.png>` to turn it into a sprite...               #small1 { background:url(sprite.png) n n; height:n; width:n; } id=small1 height=n width=n      ...then 12 sprites equals 1KB (and change) in extra payload - above and beyond the images themselves. Before you say "big deal!", remember we are talking about small sprite-able images here, and 1KB _is_ significant, relatively speaking. Also, CSS can sneak up on you. Actually that's my post in a nut-shell: Isn't this "optimization" kind of silly? I'm not saying sprites should not be used. I just think there has got to be more to it than "one request is always better than many". Especially when you've got HTTP Keepalive and a well-optimized web server and file system. And all things considered, what is the point in focusing on such mundane detail, while there are surely much bigger in-efficiencies to nit-pick about in any web application?


Display flickr widget in website

I'd like to display some photos with flickr on my website which could change dynamically               <iframe align=center src=http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=my_id&tags=Grenoble frameBorder=0 width=500 scrolling=no height=500></iframe>      In this example my tag is Grenoble (a city). What I'd like is to be able do change that tag (to New York or Chicago for example) even if I don't have pictures with this tag. (The aim of this is to display photos according to a city variable).


Run server-side script as authenticated user in apache--is it possible?

I'm developing a web app that takes a bunch of parameters (dropdown boxes, etc) from an authenticated user, creates a file, then delivers that file via stdin to a program on my web server. Due to some limitations of the server-side program, I'd like to have Apache run that server-side program as the previously authenticated user rather than as the generic apache user. So for example, if user foo logs in (using mod_authz_ldap on the backend), and fills out the form, the form should then execute the command on the server as user foo rather than user apache. Is this possible?


How does Google's Traffic Estimator calculates the "Estimated Avg. CPC"?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How does Google's Traffic Estimator calculate the "Estimated Avg. CPC"? I use Google's Traffic Estimator to calculate the Estimated Average Cost Per Click. I use the following filters:               Locations: Australia     Languages: English      and the following phrase `air conditioner melbourne`. When I use `Max CPC = $100`, the result is: `AU$6.08`. But, when I use `Max CPC = $10`, the result is: `AU$3.87`. Why is this difference?


Are there any legal implications to reading a user's privates messages on a forum?

I'm the webmaster of a forum and we are having trouble with a user and we suspect he uses privates messages to do illegal business (not illicit, but illegal according to the forum rules). Are their any legal implications to reading the privates messages of that user in order for us to get proof that he is indeed doing business against our rules? The server is located in Quebec, Canada.


URL rewrite - Cross domain javascript

I have a site `site.domain1.com` that needs to launch content from another domain - `content.domain2.com` but I encounter cross-domain JS issues when doing this directly. I basically need to make `site.domain1.com` think that the content from `domain2` is actually from `domain1.com`. I have read that URL rewrite in IIS7 may be the answer, can this be done?


Implications of syndicating content to a company blog from a personal blog

Several co-workers and I are authors on our company's blog, and we each also have our own personal website blogs. In an effort to promote our company blog, we are considering syndicating the posts from our personal blogs to the company blog. For example, when I post on my blog `mysite.com/blog/post-xyz` it'll syndicate to and appear on `thecompany.com/blog/post-xyz` as well. **What are the SEO implications of doing this?** _This must be a win-win scenario_. We want to see the company blog improve because it'll have more content, but we don't want to hurt the individual personal blogs either. > If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the > version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which > may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure > that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to > your original article. - Google This is basically what we are going for. I would expect that the search result version may end up being the company blog in many cases, which would be the drawback to the individual, but I'm hoping the increased back links would simultaneously help support the individuals own website SEO value. This is syndication in its purest, most honest form, so I'd like to think it would be a beneficial thing to do, but I really don't know. Could it hurt?


Can a video uploader block ads if he/she does not own all content?

If my video contains a musical recording and the owner of the recording master rights authorizes YouTube to place ads on the video, do I have the right / capability to prevent ads from being displayed?


apache rewriting url doesn't work(using godaddy hosting)

I'm using a framework to create my website(codeigniter) by default the urls are like this:`mysite.com/index.php?/etc/etc/etc`.   And I'm trying to remove the `index.php?`, I tried to remove it by doing this(didn't work):               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]        Note:   it's working on my localhost(when putting my website's files in the root directiory). So, Is this issue associated with me or the hosting company(Go Daddy)?


Google won't display site

My website (http://markasoftware.getenjoyment.net) doesn't seem to be indexed properly by Google (I haven't tried other search engines). When I type in the URL of my site it appears right at the top of the list like it should. When I type in the entire contents of the title, however, the site doesn't appear! The title is quite long > Thermonuclear War Game Online: Thermonuclear War By Mark and it has little (if any) competition. Have I been punished by Google for some reason, or is it something else? I have received zero hits from search engines. Can someone tell me why my site doesn't appear?


How to collect data to start a business directory website

I am working on creating a business directory (like yelp.com). The problem I faced is how to collect data about businesses to start. The information we need are (business name, categories, phone number, address, photos, products/services, reviews ....) Do I have to : - Buy data from a governmental sources. - Recruit employees that go to business owners. - Start with an empty database.


Affiliate backlinks with 301 redirect not displaying in Webmaster Tools

I have an affiliate program that is hosted on a different site and server. It is an eCommerce site that accepts payments for my products. So all my affiliate links are pointing to this eCommerce site and then subsequently 301 redirected to my site. The route is "link->eCommerce->301->my site". I read that it's okay for ranking and Google considers this as a backlink to my site (correct me if I am wrong). However I don't see these links in my Google Webmaster Tools account and that's what I am concerned about. I can see other (direct) links, but not these with redirect. Maybe it is because I added my site to WMT only about 20 days ago? When I test affiliate links with HttpFox I see that eCommerce site also does some POSTs to `ocsp.verisign.com` while redirecting to my site. Not sure if this can be a problem?


See individual Google Shopping products performances in Analytics

I'm running a Google Shopping for search campaign in Adwords. So the products are pulled in from my merchant center and displayed with a picture in the SERPs. In Google Analytics or Adwords I can not distinguish the performance of individual products. Both Adwords and Analytics shows only cpc and conversion numbers for the whole campaign. I would like to see which products perform well and which don't.


.org pendingDelete release at what time of day

Is there a particular time of day **.org** domains release? I've read on multiple forums/articles claiming different times, and even worse, all of the conversions of **GMT to ET/PT** were all incorrect as well. So now, I'm a bit baffled at what the correct time is in GMT/PDT for time of day the .org is officially deleted from the registry. Can anyone comment?


Googlebot fetches my pages very frequent, rel-nofollow, meta-noindex or robots.txt-disallow

Googlebot fetches pages in my site very frequently. And this slowens my website. I don't want Googlebot to crawl too frequent. I decreased crawl rate from Google webmaster tools. But I'm supposing to use these three tools:   * Adding rel="nofollow" to my inner pages. So Googlebot won't crawl and index them.   * Adding meta tag "noindex" so Google will remove this page from index and won't get it again.   * Adding Disallow: /mySomeFolder/ to robots.txt and Googlebot won't crawl that pages. I'm planning to use these methods for my 56.000 pages, except the most important 6-7 pages. Which method would you prefer and what would be disadvantages or advantages ? Or won't it change my website speed etc..


Sitemaps - do I need to submit each sitemap in sitemap_index.xml to Google Webmaster tools?

I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is `sitemap_index.xml` file in the root directory which contains the following code:               <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/xml-sitemap-xsl.php"?>     <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">         <sitemap>             <loc>                 http://mywebsite.com/post-sitemap.xml             </loc>             <lastmod>                 2012-12-18T19:47:47+00:00             </lastmod>         </sitemap>              <sitemap>             <loc>                 http://mywebsite.com/page-sitemap.xml             </loc>             <lastmod>                 2012-12-18T17:32:49+00:00             </lastmod>         </sitemap>     </sitemapindex>      **My question:** Which sitemap should I submit to Google Webmasters Tools? Options are:   1. Only `sitemap_index.xml`   2. Only `post-sitemap.xml` and `page-sitemap.xml`   3. All 3 (sitemap_index.xml, post-sitemap.xml and page-sitemap.xml)   4. Any other, please let me know.


Custom per domain CSS in Internet Explorer

We have an old web app, which would be much more usable if it could be visually tweaked a bit. Being in a corporate environment - IE (always using the latest version) is all I can use. Also app in question being 3rd-party - there's no way to change it's own CSS files. Is there a way to use per domain injected custom CSS in internet Explorer. Let's say I want to change the background-color of domain http://oldapp.localintranet/ - is there any way to make this happen?   * Place to put a custom.css-file?   * With an add-on/extension?


With Google Analytics, is it possible to check a specific page in Multi-Channel conversion attribution?

I'm somewhat new to Google Analytics, and I'm trying to track all conversions that are assisted by a particular landing page, because I don't expect an instant purchase. I have e-commerce tracking set up. Due to the constraints of the associated ad campaign, I can't include the source/medium code in the url when people go to the landing page, and all of my traffic to the landing page is likely to be direct, so I'm not sure how to tell Multi-Channel marketing that it's a significant page. I know how to add events to a page, but I'm still figuring out what they can and cannot do. Would creating a redirect from the landing url to an identical url+source/medium code work? Any advice on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Tracking the final sale conversion is not the issue. Ecommerce reporting is functioning just fine on the site. I just want to report the landing page as an assist, whenever it shows up in the funnel, and I need to be able to do that across multiple visits.


Using Google analytics to show online users?

I am wondering whether it is possible to use Google Analytics stats to extract number of online users, something like whos.amung.us? If not, what alternative outsourced solutions are available?


using blank image to improve post value

I have seen people (including popular digital agencies) using 1 x 1px transparent image, so that they can add page title as alt value. Does that really increases the value of a web page or that's a spam in search engine's eyes?


Any reason not to buy SSL certificates from a reseller?

Is there any reason to buy an SSL certificate directly from the host (for $49, for example), instead of through a well-known reseller, for only $10.95? Specifically in my case, I just need to encrypt user data as they fill out forms. Nothing too critical, only usernames and passwords. I don't think my users actually care about the brand name or "trust" level behind the certificate, I'm just looking out for them.


Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?

### Context. At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users. > What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search > results? When you search from Google, websites you visit from our organic > search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't receive > information about each individual query. _Reference :Making search more secure, October 18, 2011._ This had the effect of blocking Google Analytics from capturing any keyword data from queries resulting from an encrypted organic search on Google. This resulted in the '(not provided)' keyword being shown in place of the actual query. Fast forward to the present day - Google have just announced that all search queries from Google Chrome will be sent over SSL. > Today, when users are signed in to Google, Chrome sends their searches from > the Chrome address bar (“omnibox”) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Starting > with Chrome 25 (currently in the Dev and Beta channels), we’re doing the > same thing for Chrome omnibox searches performed by users who aren’t signed > in to Google. _Reference :Google Search in Chrome gets more secure, January 18, 2013._ ### Question. Assuming these change progress out of development -- Would this mean that we will not be able to see any organic keyword data resulting from searches from Google in the Chrome browser in Google Analytics?


How to cross-link multiple sites with duplicate content that is search engine friendly?

I am in the scenario where I have my content duplicated over multiple cross domains. I don't want to get penalized for my original site by Google for it. So what is the best option to avoid this. I came to know about the cross linking i.e giving link of my original article at the last of republished articles, is this okay? Is there any standard format of linking like.. Cross posted from: http://myoriginalsite.com/myarticle Referenced: http://myoriginalsite.com/myarticle Original article: http://myoriginalsite.com/myarticle Which of above will be good?


wget not respecting my robots.txt. Is there an interceptor?

I have a website where I post csv files as a free service. Recently I have noticed that wget and libwww have been scraping pretty hard and I was wondering how to circumvent that even if only a little. I have implemented a robots.txt policy. I posted it below..               User-agent: wget     Disallow: /          User-agent: libwww     Disallow: /          User-agent: *     Disallow: /        Issuing a wget from my totally independent ubuntu box shows that wget against my server just doesn't seem to work like so....               http://myserver.com/file.csv      Anyway I don't mind people just grabbing the info, I just want to implement some sort of flood control, like a wrapper or an interceptor. Does anyone have a thought about this or could point me in the direction of a resource. I realize that it might not even be possible. Just after some ideas. Janie


Ad software to rotate text links?

I am currently using OpenX to rotate text links but I don't think search engines can spider these links. What software can I use to do this?


Backlink question - google viewer

I have documents (.pdfs) that I'm planning to post on a site using the google docs viewer. I think others may wish to embed the same documents on their sites since the documents will be updated, timely, and newsworthy. I'm providing an easy embed code for people to copy and paste (like Scribd does). The embed code looks something like this:               <iframe src = "http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.mysite.com/downloads/theDocument.pdf&embedded=true" style="width:100%; height:850px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>      How would Google 'crawl' this code if its posted on another site? Would google credit me a backlink from another site even though my site url is sort of buried in the code above? Anybody have experience with this? I could always just use an iframe or embed code directly to the document and skip the google docs viewer, but I figure people will find it more trustworthy and it's certain to fit all browsers and devices. Let me know if you have a better alternative.


Alternative for Subdomains

I have a company and website like www.example.com We have 1 industry with product 1 ,product 2 and another industry with product 3 and product 4 . All these products are different to each other my questions is like should have subdomains like www.industry1.example.com or www.example.com/industry1 If it is industry1.example.com it might sense different domain , if it is example.com/industry1 the number of folders might increase Please suggest a best solution for this thanks, Raj


CVV Code For Authorize.com using osCommerce

Hi I need to add a CVV code for verifying credit cards upon check out on my osCommerece shopping cart. I think this will involve a code for the authorize.net php and the checkout processing php but not sure. Found this great write up, but it is only for the authorize.net php and it doesn't create a filed for the CVV to be keyed. Also it throws an error with the 'echo validate.' Can't seem to find anything in any forums for osCommerce or any place out. Hoping someone here will have some knowledge. Thanks.


Is this valid Google Review Microformat?

I've applied some HTML around my aggregate review, I just wondered if anyone could tell me if it is valid (even though the Google test tool says it is) and that non of the extra HTML or style affects it being able to be read by Google:

Chinese Takeaway

Eat & Drink - Chinese Takeaway

                                       4                                    based on                 1 rating.


One Gmail INBOX: E-mail forwarding OR fetching via POP3 from other accounts?

I maintain a few small web projects (2-3 people) where the scenario is usually the same:   1. The project has its own domain ( **example.com** )   2. There is a need to setup one or two personal e-mail addreses ( **peter@example.com** )   3. One common group e-mail address is also needed ( **support@example.com** )   4. Every person with a personal e-mail address from bullet 2 needs to be able to receive e-mails from **support@example.com**.   5. Also needs to be able to **reply** to those messages as peter@example.com and also as support@example.com   6. Every person has their **OWN** personal **e-mail address** at **Gmail** /other domain running on Google Apps which he regularly checks and he would like to be able to easily read e-mails related to the **@example.com** at their own e-mail address, because it won't be effective to check more e-mail accounts separately = ONE INBOX, but the e-mails needs to be categorized (Gmail labels or so)   7. The project are on a shared hosting and are not as big to invest any money into running Google Apps on each of those. I came with two possible solutions to this: ### 1. POP3 fetching * * *   * Setup each e-mail address separately on a mail server related to domain hosting   * Instruct every person to use their Gmail POP3 fetching ability to fetch those e-mails to their personal account and to automatically label fetched messages with the project name.   * Setup SMTP send as Gmail feature at every person OWN e-mail address so they will be able to send e-mails from @example.com domain **+** if a person no longer works on the project, I can just set up fetching on someone elses account and all PAST messages from domain-hosting-mail-server will be fetched to his account **-** Every e-mail takes double space - at domain hosting and also at the persons OWN e-mail address **-** Person's OWN mail provider has to be able to fetch e-mails (but the major one like Gmail is) **-** I need to check for mail storage quotas every once in a while, so the e-mail accounts at domain-hosting are not full and the e-mail are not coming anymore **-** Google POP3 fetcher checks the other e-mail accounts just once an hour which can mean a difference dealing with some crisis. EDIT: I just found that when sending e-mails from OWN gmail address even through **@example.com** SMTP server the e-mails are not saved at the corresponding domain outbox (they are just in the gmail outbox). Is it possible to set this one somehow? It would be a big advantage for this method. ### 2. Mail forwarding * * *   * There won't be any real e-mail account on the domain, just set of rules where to redirect incoming messages (to person's OWN mail addresses)   * Create one real e-mail account on each domain for SMTP authentication **+** Easy to setup **+** Won't take any space on domain-hosting **-** The e-mails are only at person's OWN e-mail accounts so if they walk away from the project, it can be hard to get important e-mails back - also hard to transfer to someone else * * * Is there any other drawback on of each of those? Which one is a more common way to do? What am I missing there in the long run?


Store a formula in a table and use the formula in a javascript/PHP function

I have a MySql database where part of it handles instrument's depth of water. Each instrument has its own formula of calculation how depth the water when the operator collect the reading I stored the formula for each instrument in database/MySql. **Example formula** : `[55-57]` this is the simple minus operation, where the number is actually represent the id of a row. How do I represent those number with id of a row and later convert it to javascript readable code. I simply want to do keyup event where everytime user key in something into text field then the other part of HTML would reflect changes based on formula that I fetched from database FYI, I'm using BackboneJS together with RequireJS


Alternative to CPanel

I want to develop software and host it on a website. I am considering purchasing a VPS from Linode to store the source code; however it does not provide CPanel (what I used to configure my webspace on shared hosts when building websites). Is there an alternative to CPanel or would it be worth hosting the website for the product on a shared host that provides CPanel?


How do I block a user-agent from Apache

How do I realize a UA string block by regular expression in the config files of my Apache webserver? For example: if I would like to block out all bots from Apache on my debian server, that have the regular expression `/\b\w+[Bb]ot\b/` or `/Spider/` in their user-agent. Those bots should not be able to see any page on my server and they should not appear neither in the accesslogs nor in the errorlogs. `http://global-security.blogspot.de/2009/06/how-to-block-robots-before-they- hit.html` supposes to uses `mod_security` for that, but isn't there a simple directive for _http.conf_?


My site has crashed .. anyone have some info?

I booked a domain name for my website from a hosting provider .I gave the domain name , along with ftp details to a freelancer to develop the site in wordpress . the freelancer developped and he got full payment , and the site and site was working fine ,etc .. From that time , I did not change the admin logging as well as ftp details , this means that such info is still known to the freelancer .. A week ago , I found that some links in my site was not working .. I sent him a mail about this , and he said that he will fix it if i give him ftp details . and I did so , next I found that the entire site is gone . then he sent me a mail , without I asked him , and he he said that there have been someone who got access to my server , and he removed all files of my site and he installed drupal instead .and that he can rebuild the site in one day , by charging a full fee of 250 usd again .. Can anyone know what I can do in this situation , to find who did such act , could it be the host provider or that freelancer ,, and if there is a possibility to have my site back top the server .. I will appreciate any info on this.. Regards , Thanks


Posting a link to our page on facebook doesn't resolve correctly within FB

We have a product page, there is a javascript popup that requires users to enter an email address to gain access. But the page behind the popup is fully rendered (for SEO value and such). https://www.frugg.com/bags/deal/32/coach-hot-lime-summer-bag But when I try to share this page in facebook (paste it into a status update) facebook tries to reference our FB fan page: http://www.facebook.com/frugg. I'm trying to figure out why it doesn't handle the link like normal (e.g. a picture to the product and linking to our website). Here's what facebook shows as the link when I paste that above URL into a FB status update.                Frugg - Las Vegas, NV - Website | Facebook      https://www.facebook.com/frugg      Frugg, Las Vegas, NV. 39,522 likes · 4 talking about this · 19 were here      Any ideas where to look? The only guess I have is that the javascript popup is interfering, but I wouldn't imagine that the FB crawler cares about javascript.