Hello Hawkvt1, Fisrt of all I want to tell you that  the protocols (http/https) are different, they are considered two separate sites, so there’s a good chance to get penalized for duplicate content. If the search engine discovers two identical pages, generally it would take the page it saw first and ignore the other pages.The solutions are described below:

S__olutions:

1. Be smart about the site structure:  to keep the engines from crawling and indexing HTTPS pages, structure the website so that HTTPs are only accessible through a form submission (log-in, sign-up, or payment pages). The common mistake is making these pages available via a standard link (happens when you are either ignorant or  not aware that the secure version of the site is being crawled and indexed).
2. Use Robots.txt file to control which pages will be crawled and indexed
3. Use.htaccess file. Here’s how to do this:
4. Create a file names robots_ssl.txt in your root.
5. Add the following code to your .htaccessRewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443 [NC]RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt [L]
6. Remove yourdomain.com:443 from the webmaster tools if the pages have already been crawled
7. For dynamic pages like php, try< ?phpif ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] == 443){echo “< meta name=” robots ” content=” noindex,nofollow ” > “;}?>
8. Dramatic solution (may not always be possible): 301 redirect the HTTPS pages to the HTTP pages – with hopes that the link juice will transfer over.

For more information please refer to this link :

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-duplicate-content-issues-with-http-and-https

I'm sure that your problem is solved.

Hi Stefanita,

First of all Keeping in mind that the alt-text is meant to be an alternative text that could be shown in place of the image (and accordingly, it's indexed as part of the page), it could be confusing to see the exact same text over and over again," said Mu. "Search engines generally aren't impressed by seeing the same text that many times, so I'd simplify that a bit by perhaps using the full text for the main product image, but not reusing it for all of the smaller detail-images."

Using alt tags is definitely best practice but keyword stuffing (anywhere really) is not. Keep alt tags short, descriptive and relevant to the image they are being used for and you'll all but guarantee that alt tags help (and not hurt) your rankings.

editor's note: see the complete post at http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2011/04/26/keyword-stuffing-alt-tags-for-google.aspx

By doing the above mentioned it leads to keywords stuffing.

.Filling alt attributes with keywords ("keyword stuffing") results in a negative user experience, and may cause your site to be perceived as spam. Instead, focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context. We recommend testing your content by using a text-only browser such as Lynx.

Hope that you found the solution.

Hi Upick,Fisrt of all I wan to tell you that It’s no secret that one of the tactics search engine optimization specialists use to increase search rankings is domain purchasing.  The idea is that you find a domain that currently ranks well within your niche, buy it and then redirect the site to your domain.  Alternatively you could purchase this domain and continue to build off of it and utilize its existing rankings and site traffic.

Below are several do’s & don’ts to keep in consideration when purchasing a domain.

DO:

• Look for existing rankings
• Research websites existing links.  Are they all pointing to the home page or do internal page links exist?
• Examine the existing content on the site; can it be leveraged for more links?
• Take into account the domain age/authority before purchasing
• Take the time to determine if the price of the domain will outweigh natural content building and link building.
• Check to see if any existing penalties or filters have been placed on the domain.
• Map out domains internal pages to the pages of your current website.
• Look for websites that are relevant to your niche.
• Examine incoming links and see if they target your specific keywords.
• Determine if the links from this domain will stay put even after a redirect placed.
• Do look for yahoo, best of the web, DMOZ, business.com directory links.
• Look to see if the backlinks come from other sites that the current site owner may own as well.  There is a good chance these links could disappear after the purchase.
• Check out the websites existing traffic and verify it if possible.
• Check the age of the domains existing links.
• Look for authority news sites linking to the domain.

DO NOT:

• Purchase a domain based off its Google Page Rank.
• Purchase a domain that only has low quality and spammy links.
• Place too much value on a keyword matching domain.  (watch out for hyphenated URLS)
• Redirect the entire website to your homepage.
• Buy a site that’s not indexed in the search engines.
• Purchase domains that are not in your niche.
• Use any other redirect outside of a 301 redirect.  The value will not pass otherwise.
• Substitute organic link building with multiple domain purchases.
• Purchase a domain that has its entire link equity coming from a small quantity of domains.
• 301 redirect several newly acquired domains at once; this could send a red flag to Google.

These “Do’s & Don’ts” of domain purchasing hopefully will guide you in the right direction when it comes to you purchasing additional domains.  There are too many scammers with the intent of selling you a low value site at a high price.  This is why it’s crucial to do your homework before you purchase any domains.   Yes there are deals to be had out their but you have to be extra careful when you think your getting a steal.  If you follow the basics tips listed above you should be just fine!

For more details please visit the Buying Expired Domains

I hope that your query has been solved.

Hi Logan,I would like to tell you that the basic concept is to make the URL search engine friendly — and by friendly, we mean optimized to rank better.

The short answer is that you should use a hyphen for your SEO URLs. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator, but does _not _treat an underscore that way. Google treats and underscore as a word joiner — so red_sneakers is the same as redsneakers to Google. This has been confirmed directly by Google themselves, including the fact that using dashes over underscores will have a (minor) ranking benefit.

Again, SEO URLs should use hyphens to separate words. Do not use underscores, do not try to use spaces, and do not smash all the words together intoonebigword. As of 2011, dashes are still the best way to optimize your SEO URLs.

ccording to Matt Cutts - a senior software engineer at Google - he recommends using dashes for Google.

According to his article, "Dashes vs. underscores", if you have a URL like 'keyword1_keyword2' Google will only return that page if the user searches for 'keyword1_keyword2' (which almost never happens).

If you have a URL like 'keyword1-keyword2', that page can be returned for the searches for 'keyword1', 'keyword2', and even 'keyword1 keyword2'.

Don't forget to inform Googlebot and other search engine crawlers that a page has moved to a permanent location by adding 301 redirects to your web site's '.htaccess' file.

301 Redirect

For example:

Redirect 301 /old_directory http://www.example.com/new-directory

Redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.example.com/new-page.html

Redirect 301 /old_directory/old_page.html http://www.example.com/new-directory/new-page.html

Note that the first URL only includes the directories (if any) and file name. The second URL must include the domain, in addition to the directory (if any) and file name. This is because the redirect may point to a file on another domain - it doesn't have to be on the same domain.

I hope that you will found the solution.

Hi Mike, The text-indent property can be applied to block-level elements (P, H1, etc.) to define the amount of indentation that the first line of the element should receive. The value must be a length or a percentage; percentages refer to the parent element's width. A common use of text-indent would be to indent a paragraph:

**`P { text-indent: 5em }`**

The usage of text-indent:-9999px to display a site logo or other image while hiding text should be avoided. It’s a technique used by web spammers trying to game search engines like Google, and is considered spammy behavior. Instead, use an  tag and put the text inside its alt attribute.

According to Matt Cuts (and some other comments) the best solution is to use an image with alt andtitle attributes. The alt attribute is for SEO and the title attribute is for accessibility. Using an image also makes sense for semantic markup. A company logo is actually an important piece of content.

 **`#  <a< span="">href="http://stackoverflow.com"> <img< span="">src="logo.png"  alt="Stack Overflow"  title="Click to return to Stack Overflow homepage"  /></img<></a<>`** 

<code>Well, recently, I'm thinking about SEO effects with using something like h1 {text-indent: -9999px; background: url('xyz') }...
I dont think I trust this anymore to be good for SEO. And I don't mean that it's actually "good" for it, because that would certainly be bad SEO techniques. I'm just thinking that it wouldn't be too far fetched to believe that in the search algorithms that anything that is negative text indent over ABC pixels, is considered spam and either isn't registered, or even worse, effects your site negatively.</code>

Hiding the contents of an H1 tag, such that the search engine is presented with textual content which is not visible to a visitor, is SEO Spamming, and can get the site banned if one of your client's competitors catches you doing it and turns you in! 

It is, in fact, a form of hidden text spamming (itself "Black Hat", and explicitly banned by all of the major search engines). With the offense made all the worse by the fact you are doing it with an H1 tag, rather than non-emphasized text (Due to both the power of an H1, and the real estate it would take-up if rendered on-screen) 

 Google makes it pretty clear that hidden text spamming is prohibited. In fact, they have a web page in their anti-spam guidelines devoted to it! They also have a check-off box (the first one, in fact!) on their spam report page specifically dedicated to reporting this kind of spamming (see 3rd link - requires login). 

The fact that Google may not explicitly list every means of hiding keywords does not therefore make a particular spamming technique legit. Indeed, as Google states in their Webmaster guidelines (see 1st link) - 

"It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it." 

However, in this case, this method of hiding content is specifically prohibited. On their Hidden Text Spamming page (2nd link), Google lists examples of various tricks to hide content, including specifically - 

"Using CSS to hide text" 

Which is what you are proposing to do here. 

While implementing this with external CSS files MAY make this a bit harder for Google to detect via automated means, it is also a VERY easy technique for someone to spot. 

All it takes is for just ONE of your client's competitors (OR their SEO's) to wonder why the site is coming-up higher in the SERPs than they are, notice what you are doing, and turn you in to Google for spamming! 

Any short-term gain you may obtain from such a technique is not worth the risk of getting your client's site banned from Google. 

The original quote from the WebmasterWorld discussion referenced by the Search Engine Roundtable link Shaq Ali provided makes the following excellent point - 

"For those who may be hiding things through CSS or negatively positioning content off screen to manipulate page content, I surely wouldn't do that with any long term projects. ;) 

The penalty for getting busted using this technique I would imagine is a PERMANENT BAN.* No if's, and's, or but's, you're history. You'll need a pardon from the Governor to be reconsidered for inclusion. ;)" 
(* - Bold replaced with caps) 

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*   [https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport](http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fspamreport&urlhash=UReX "New window will open")

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Prasanth, As you had mentioned that you had been doing blog commenting for past 6 months this means that you had a good knowledge of do follow & no follow blogs. I adviced you to do do comments on do follow blogs. It will more beneficial to your website.

I am giving you a tools from which do follow blogs can be easily found.

1.Do Follow Search

2.Inline SEO 

3.Do Follow Blog Search

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Naghirniac, As you mentioned above that you need a SEO plugin for Dreamweaver, so here's a SEO Assistant is Adobe Dreamweaver plugin that will show you how well the web page you are developing will rank for given keywords in major search engines.

Here is the link which gives you all the deatils, Please check & review it.

http://www.qwertystudios.com/products/seo-assistant/

Hi Applesofgold, Please look at the below link:

Dmoz the Legend !

Firstly you should know how to submit the site to the open source directory(ODP).

After that why it is so important i.e DMoz Listing?

I hope that you will found the solution.

Hi Cameron, A press release will help your website gain awareness in your industry. It is a fantastic way to announce a grand opening of a new business, a large sale or promotion, a unique tool, feature, movie file, content or other resource.

Submitting the press release help the social media for business online press release distribution and social networking are powerful marketing tools but combined they are an unstoppable force for instant online exposure.

For more details see the below advantages of press release:

Advantages: They are a fast, free, easy, way to get your message and your company name all over the internet. Some of them are fairly high page rank which passes along some good link juice. I've gotten my clients 6 of the top 10 Google listings on the front page of google, for the keywords we selected, using free press release sites. (There's never a guarantee of this, of course; Google does what Google wants.)

Yes prlog.org is good site for press release.For more details for the press release websites see the link below:

50 Free Press Release Websites

Hi Jason, When people think of site maps, they often think of XML sitemaps that contain a link to every page on your website. But for the purposes of planning a site, a visual site map can be very helpful. By drawing even a simple sketch of your site and the sections you would like to have on it, you can be sure that you capture everything about your website that you need to be sucessful.

There are list of some xml sitemap creating tools:

1.Web-site-map

2. Sitemap Automator.

3. XSitemap.

4.Sitemap Generator

5.Make a Sitemap

For more details please refer to the below list also:

Sitemap Generator list

Xml Sitemap Tools

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Cameron, I have been using Twiends with great success lately, and I am wondering if there are any other websites with a similar service, or any other websites that are helpful in driving to social network profiles. For those of you who havent heard of Twiends, I would check it out, as I have been getting tons of followers and likes through it. I will shamefully submit my referral link for anyone that because it is considered to be the black SEO.

But if you really wan to increase followers on twitter then please check this link:

How To Get Twitter Follower.

I hope that your query had been solved.