I'm setting up a website using Google Sites.
If I add a hyperlink to a page and select 'Web Address', then enter http://www.example.com as the link, the actual page ends up being rendered with
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.example.com
as the hyperlink address. This injects an annoying 'redirecting you to www.example.com' Google page and a two-second delay into following hyperlinks off my page.
Is there any way to turn this behaviour off?
"If the site you're linking to isn't public, it will automatically redirect through www.google.com/url when opened to keep the site's anonymity."
Source: support.google.com/sites/answer/90538
Whatever was causing this behaviour, it seems to have stopped after a few days. No idea why, but I'll call that a fix - the site was very new at the time I posted, so possibly it's something to do with Google tracking people filling pages with dubious links?
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I am trying to use an image from an existing website in my html page. The issue is that the image is not getting resolved correctly, Even when I hit the image URL directly on browser, its getting redirected to some other site. I have tried on all browsers but no luck.
I have heard about restricting resource using hot linking but in this case not sure whats happening. Any pointers/suggestions please.
Eg - I want to use image(http://www.acsisair.com.au/wp-content/themes/acsis-air/images/logo.png) but when hitting this URL after clearing browser cache, its being redirected to other website (http://www.nine.com.au)
It's very, very likely a form of hotlinking protection: if you change the URL subtly to make it clearly incorrect, you get a 404 page.
That means when you enter an URL to a resource that exists, you're given a header redirect. That's not an accident.
There's likely nothing you can (or should) do to circumvent this.
Use images you can host on your own site.
I'm wondering if there is a URL shortener which, which clicked on, keeps displaying the actual shortened link in the address bar, as opposed to showing the original URL.
Thanks.
You could use a full-height iframe, but many sites use X-Frame-Options to forbid this (including major ones like Facebook and Google). Users would see an error message for these sites.
Ow.ly and others used to use this technique, but most have ditched it by now for this reason. In general, it's considered user-hostile and a Bad Idea™ now.
I've got a bit of a problem with Google's Change of Address function on the Google Webmaster tools. I hope that I got the right part of the Stack Exchange for this.
Basically, for six years I've been using a blogging platform blogsome.com (which hosts domains like http://site-address.blogsome.com), which is basically a hosted wordpress server. I've had no complaints about it, until they recently announced that they would close down on a very, very short notice.
With this, I found it a good opportunity to set up a domain of my own (let's call it http://site-adress.net for now). Setting up the domain and website went well, but when I went to Google Webmaster Tools to tell it about the change of address, this proved to be surprisingly difficult. In particular, when I tried the "Change of Address"-option on the dashboard, I get the message that this option is not available for subdomains.
What method would there be to correctly tell google that my site has changed? I cannot use 301-redirects, because 1) I do not have access to do that on blogsome, and 2) blogsome will be shutting down really soon (read: within a week; the news was on a very short notice, and I spent most of that time actually setting up the website). I've also read somewhere that you should keep your old site alive for 180 days, and again that is no option for me either.
The best option is to use a .htaccess file (plain text file)
And put this inside it and upload it to your site.
Redirect 301 / http://www.yournewdomain.com/
If you cant do that you might be able to upload a new index.php with the following inside it.
<?php
header( "Status: 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.yournewdomain.com/" );
exit(0)
?>
If you cant do that either, then say what you can actually do on the server?
Do you have any actually access to files? Or can you edit the templates?
You should be able to move it in gwt i'm not 100% sure, I never done it with a subdomain or a blog-hosted site. So I might be wrong here.
Add your new domain with the blog to your gwt account and get it verified.
Then in GWT goto your bloghosted site then to Site Configuration > Change of address
And then select your new domain under the "Tell us the URL of your new domain" part and hit Submit
I want my site address bar not to change its address when I go to subpages, it should show my index.html, even though I enter tosub pages.
Like if I open www.xyz.com and I navigate to any page it should still show www.xyz.com.
I heard this can be done with .htaccess is it possible?
You really should think about why you want it, because this way of working has a couple of drawbacks with it:
Users can't see they are on a different page
Users can't bookmark your pages for fast access
Users can't share links to eachother
Search Engines may have trouble spidering your side
But basically, there are two main ways to do this:
Use frames. Put the page into a frame, and have all the links stay in this frame.
Use Javascript. Have each page "load" into the current page, using AJAX.
I have an application that utilizes rather unfriendly dynamic URLs most of the time. I am providing friendly URLs to some content, but these are used only as an entry point into the application, after which point all of the generated URLs will be the unfriendly variety.
My question is, if I know that the user is on a page for which a friendly URL could be generated and they choose to bookmark it, is there a way to tell the browser to bookmark the friendly one instead of what is in the address bar?
I had hoped that rel="canonical" would help here, but it seems as if it's only used for indexing. Maybe one day browsers will utilise it.
No. This is by design, and a Good Thing.
Imagine the following scenario: Piskvor surfs to http://innocentlookingpage.example.com/ and clicks "bookmark". He doesn't notice that the bookmark he saved points to http://evilsite.example.net/ Next time he opens that bookmark, he might get a bit of a surprise.
Another example without cross-domain issues:
Piskvor the site admin clicks "bookmark" on the homepage of http://security-holes-r-us.example.org/ - unfortunately, the page is vulnerable to script injection, and the injected code changes the bookmark to http://security-holes-r-us.example.org/admin?action=delete&what=everything&sure=absolutely . If he's still logged in the next time he opens the bookmark, he may find his site purged of data (Granted, it was his fault not to prevent script injection AND to have non-idempotent GET resources, but that is all too common).