Hi Jonathan,

Didn't realize this was possible now. For the reasons you stated it still would be advised to get a dedicated IP. The last time I looked at prices they were relatively in-expensive.

Hello Happy,

Okay so you have content being served as http on your https page. When you reference an image or script you need to make sure it is a relative reference or a https reference, otherwise you will get these types of warnings.

See Mozilla Facts here

Also see the image attached.

Also the SSL isn't misconfigured it is missing. To configure one properly you need to contact your host and ask them to install a SSL cert (most host will not allow users to do this themselves). If you have not yet purchased a SSL you will need to do so. SSL certs also require dedicated IP addresses which most host also charge for.

In summary if you purchase a dedicated IP and a SSL certification you're problem should go away unless you specifically declare content as http.

Hope this helps,

Don

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Hi David,

Rand covered this very topic in a white board friday. Perhaps you may find it helpful and provide insight on what can happen and why he thinks the way he does.

Here is a link for you.

Hope it helps,

Don

There would not be a direct SEO benefit for doing this. There maybe however a benefit in tracking. If you only used that sub-domain for X ad campaign than you would know all traffic from referral sub-domain would be coming from that ad campaign.

There may be some slight non-optimization for doing it this way. Sub-domains are treated as their own domains to a degree, so you are in affect giving the ad-campaign's link to juice to a new domain entirely. Then forwarding that to a specific page. Opposed to just directly giving the link juice an ad campaign can generate to the actual page.

A couple things here depending on the type of ad campaign there may not be any link juice to worry about, like Google's ad words don't pass link juice. However, if you purchased direct advertisement on certain sites you may get some link juice from those ads running.

The second thing is actually a question. What is the purpose of creating a sub-domain to point to a sub directory? Is it just for tracking? Or were you wondering if you could benefit from a sub-domain being treated as a new domain linking to you? If for tracking; I would think there are other tracking methods that could handle referring traffic.  If it were in hopes of gaining a new backlink from a different domain than I would say it isn't helpful this way. First because it is simply forwarding to the sub-directory and secondly even it weren't forwarding the link would be considered from the same server and not very helpful anyway.

So in short, no benefit other than a potential way to help with tracking.

Hope that makes sense and helps,

Don

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I really appreciate all of you taking the time to tell me about your experiences.

I am only sorry I could only mark 3 of you as good answers. All your input was welcomed and helpful to me in one way or another.

I hope to continue to see you on the boards, maybe just not as much.

Don

I'm curious how many of you all work at home or mostly at home either through an company or freelance. Or are most of you employed at a corporation?

My company was recently bought by a very large global company. Recently I found out that all the SEO and web design is contracted through outside sources. With the headquarters in Europe, this being my primary job function I kinda feel well you know.... down..

Websites I put my life into for the last 7 years are going to be handed over to a corporation to do with whatever they feel they should. I know they were never really mine, but when you spend so much of your life to making them the best you can, so much so to attract the attention of a global billion dollar company, you should feel great right? But I feel like my dog just died.

I don't have a bad impression of the company but the shift of moving me to the IT guy has begun. Normal web updates I would have done, are now being pushed aside. I don't hate IT I like helping others, but I really loved being able to make a difference through the web.

Now I'm left contemplating my future, big corporations have so much bs, I just don't feel comfortable. I would really appreciate you all giving me your thoughts and tell me about any similar experiences you have had in your life.

Cheers,

Don

To follow up on what Keszi has said, it is not uncommon for this value to fluctuate from update to update. The reason is because there are so many things that factor into this score. This is further complicated by the fact that the crawl will not crawl every domain every time. This means you may see less / more "linking domains", and "linking c-blocks" which are factors in DA and PA.

I know when you see a 10% fluctuation you may get a little worried. However, when DA is in the 20's the fluctuation will be more prominent than if you were up in the 40's. Reason being is it is exponentially harder to reach higher domain authorities, which means that there will be a larger swab of linking domains and less likely to change much if a few are missed on each crawl.

Hope this helps,

Don

Parenthesis would be ignored by crawlers.

I would try to get them out of there honestly. It doesn't make for a pretty URL harder to type on mobile devices.

Hello Aashath,

If you recently switched hosting providers then you would have been assigned a new DNS (Domain Name Server). This tells the internet where you site is actually located. When you change your DNS it takes time before the changes are propagated through the internet. Google could being trying to resolve your old IP address, when it finds nothing there it can't return results. Usually this only takes a couple days to propagate.

You can read more about changing DNS on Matt Cutts blog here.

Some things you can do to help Google,

• Submit a new sitemap with last update time
• Make sure your Google Analytics account is still active and update code if needed
• Give it some time

Hope this helps,

Don