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I have about 420,000 unique useragent strings which I've gathered from visitors to my adult dating site over the past year or so (we use it for scammer and bot detection). PM me if you want a copy.

My example (the corrected one!) will do exactly that. It won't use "mydomain.com#my-keywords" but it will work just fine for SEO as "mydomain.com/my-keywords" which is what my example will redirect to. Existing links to "mydomain.com" will get a 301 redirect to "mydomain.com/my-keywords" (thus...

My example (the corrected one!) will do exactly that. It won't use "mydomain.com#my-keywords" but it will work just fine for SEO as "mydomain.com/my-keywords" which is what my example will redirect to. Existing links to "mydomain.com" will get a 301 redirect to "mydomain.com/my-keywords" (thus...

Sessions are implemented with cookies by default in PHP, and athough you can use sessions without cookies, you have to append an ugly session ID to all your urls. Unfortuately you can't guarantee that an IP will remain constant for a single visitor, nor can you assume that two accesses from a...

How hard it is to move your site itself depends a lot on how it's set up ATM. Although a backup/restore of your website and a mysqldump/import of your database(s) should be pretty straightforward in most cases. Make sure your dedicated server has some sort of server control panel (I'm thinking...

Others have made some good points about checking your numbers. First make sure you're looking at accurate data. But if you are ranking well for a reasonably high volume keyword but not getting clickthrus, there can really only be ONE reason. It's that people who are searching on that keyword...

There's a problem with doing this. Anyone who doesn't accept cookies gets into a redirect loop. And last time I checked, that includes Googlebot. Googlebot isn't happy when you redirect it to the page it just came from - as I have found to my cost in the past :)

Ooops. The code above won't work. There's a basic problem with what you're trying to do. The anchor part of the URL (the part after the #) won't get sent to the server, so there's no way the server can tell the difference between mydomain.com and mydomain.com#stuff which makes it impossible...

Try this: RewriteEngine on # If there wasn't anything after the domain, append the LTK and redirect RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mydomain.com#log-tail-keyword [L,R=301] # If there's no www in the domain name RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [NC] # Prepend www and append whatever was...

That will only work if you have access to both sites. (And if you have access to both sites there are way simpler ways to do this). x-bassist doesn't have access to the site he wants as the referrer.

If you want a long term reference that you can use over and over for all sorts of rewrites, invest in a decent book. I constantly refer to "The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite" by Rich Bowen to make sure I get things right. It's paid for my investment many times over. Also make sure you...

If you're trying send real traffic from siteA to siteB and have siteB see the referer as siteC (without having access to siteC), the the short answer is that it can't be done with any modern browser. You can fake the referer for an access to siteB from a script running on your server (using...

It depends how you're trying to access the target site. What's the context here?

The internet has rules??? Why didn't somebody tell me?

I've been using W7 since its first RC release (a couple of years ago?) and like all MS products, it has more than its fair share of frustrations, bugs, security holes and gotchas. But it's not too bad overall, and you can bet that MS will be doing nothing other than the absolute minimum to keep...