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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 Lhawk, First of all I advice you to look at below link for proper understanding of the Time to First Byte.

Time to first byte (TTFB)

I hope that above content helps you to understand the TTFB.

Now its time to reduce the TTFB which is most important for a web page because it overall reduces the loading time & helps to load page faster & overall website performance is increased.

For more details see the 12 steps to faster web pages.

I hope tat your query had been solved.

editor's note: source for this answer at http://www.creativedevelopment.com.au/web-design/reducing-time-to-first-byte-ttfb/

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 Cameron, First of all Link exchanges are programs in which one site offers to link to another site in return for a reciprocal link.The key component of a link exchange is the _requirement  _for a reciprocal link.

Link exachange is good when the page to which your linking has a high authority, trust, meaning it ranks high in search engines, which will add value to your site as well. Usually sites having the domain extension ".edu"&".org"are considered to provide high value links. However links from authoritative sites are not easy to obtain.

Link exchange is good for incoming links as it bring lots of traffics towards your website and it does helps to navigate from one site to other to find valuable content.

Link exchange and reciprocal links are natural to some extent. On the other hand, obvious and massive link exchange schemes or networks can be detected algorithmically, so you end up penalised sooner or later.

Please check Google's policy on Link Schemes ( http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356 ) express that excessive link exchange is bad.)

I feel that

Limited link exchange is good.
Aggressive link exchange is not good.

I think that submitting your website on free directories & not on relevant web directories would hurt you because If you are not on the same niche directories it will affects in your visibility & overall ranking as well. So keep in mind that keep submitting your website to all free directories & as well as same niche web directories.

Hi Dan, SEO Competitor analysis could be simply defined as a process of discovering why competing websites are highly ranked by the search engines.

The first step is using your keyword research data to do a detailed analysis as to whatwebsites are competing for the same keywords and phrases.  From there, detailed analysis of their websites construction will yield clues as to how they are achieving good ranking in search engines.

For you to understand the Dan you should look at the Deep Approach to Competitive Analysis & after that competitor site analysis & back link analysis also.

I hope that your query of competitive analysis of inbound links has been solved.

Hi Michelleh,JavaScript is not SEO friendly. You can find this statement all over the web.

Now a days Google is much smarter at dealing with JavaScript. Google can execute some JavaScript, but not all. This effectively means that Google Spiders can read JavaScript and have become smarter at knowing which forms to execute and read, and which parts to leave alone. It seems certain that as long as websites continue to use JavaScript, Google will continue to refine its ability to read the language.

Google Spiders can read JavaScript -- but only to a limited extent. Nonetheless, Google Spiders may read and execute some of the JavaScript embedded in your XHTML or elsewhere on your site. As with most things related to how Google ranks websites and reads pages, the exact extent of how the Google Spiders crawl and use the data is unknown.

Google can now use JavaScript for indexing. For more information please refer to this link:

http://searchengineland.com/google-can-now-execute-ajax-javascript-for-indexing-99518

Hi Kenneth, A backlink is a link from another website to yours and they form the basis of Google rankings. The more quality backlinks to your site (or lens), the more attention you're going to get from Google. Google's algorithm is based on avoiding spam filled sites, a thousand low quality links will not compete with a handful of high quality ones.

So what do I mean by quality? Well first of all the sites linking to you should be as relevant to your lens as possible, if your sites about games then get links from gaming websites! The second factor in quality is pagerank, pagerank is a number between 1-10 that Google gives to a website, the higher the number the more important a site is to Google.

A backlink is basically a vote from another site to your site, by linking to you a site is basically telling Google 'Hey check out this site, its great!' The higher the pagerank of a site the more Google is going to pay attention. There are countless ways to get backlinks to your site and getting good quality backlinks is a large focus of ranking highly in Google.

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Building Backlinks

Backlinks form the key of your traffic and search engine ranking, so how do you go about building these backlinks? The most important thing is to try build DoFollow links, NoFollow links don't hurt your rankings and may still bring you traffic, but they are not as helpful in getting a high Google ranking. (See the No/DoFollow Section for more information). There are numerous ways to build backlinks including:

**Forums - **One of the best and most simplest ways to promote your sites. Sign-up for some forums related to your niche/keyword, place a link to your lens in your signature and build a backlink everytime you make a post. Be sure to keep your posts full of quality and you'll start seeing traffic coming from these forums aswell. This is also a great way to promote multiple lenses, by placing more then one lens in your signature you can build backlinks for numerous lenses at once! Having trouble finding good quality forums? 
Directories - Personally I no longer submit to directories, they are a waste of time. They bring little to no traffic (in most cases none) and are created by people to earn money, they don't care about your site in the slightest (with the exception of a few directories.) To make the most of directories you have to use the paid link options. This makes sure your link gets approved within the same year and you'll get a good link placement. Submitting to a few of the major directories doesn't hurt, but don't waste too much time here.

Articles - Article submission can take alot of time, but it's often well worth it, articles are indexed quickly by google and often rank very highly themselves, giving you a large rank boost since they link directly to your lens. Writing articles can be very easy or hard depending on your lens topic. Don't ever submit the same article to more then one submission site, you must make every article unique which can be time consuming.

-Social Media/Social BookMarking - Digg & StumpleUpon are both examples of social media sites, and are one of the newest ways to promote your lens, these sites give good backlinks and its very easy to get your lens on them (usually doesn't require any approval). There are literally thousands out there, so get socialising! There are just way too many to list here or even link to, I will discuss my favourites later on, if you're after regularly updated lists, I suggest joining the forums also listed below.

-Other Blogs/Lens - Getting a link on a related lens is very easy on Squidoo, it's called the discovery tool, so there's little work to be done here. If you have other lenses and/or blogs put your links on them, don't forget to use anchor text! Other ways include featured lenses and groups.

Helpful Backlinks To Get You Started

There are countless ways to get links to your site, the best way to stay updated about them all is to join some webmaster forums, place your lens in your signature and promote while you learn! Below are the sites that you should submit EVERY lens to, these should be your first steps after you first create a lens. There are thousands of sites like the ones listed below, but this list will only feature GOOD and QUALITY places to build backlinks.

• The Kingdom of Squidoo, Lenslike, Squidoo Directory, SquidUp
  Lens orientated directories just for us Lensmasters!
• Wizzley
• Zujava Is just like Squidoo and a great place to build up some backlinks and drive some extra traffic to your lenses.
• Ezine Articles
  Best article site around, write and submit your own article.
• MyLot A highly active website full of discussion on any and every topic. Signup, add your lenses to your profile page and get easy backlinks and traffic.
• SocialMarker
  Want to get listed on 49 great social sites easily? SocialMarker can help you there, it lists links to all submit pages, saving you time.
• Reddit
  Add unlimited lenses to Reddit, very quick and easy it also features a PageRank of 8!
• InfoTiger
  Quick and indexed regularly.
• IceRocket
  Accepts Blogs/Lens on anything, PageRank 5 and a great site layout.
• LensRoll
  Another one just for lensmasters.
• Stumpedia
  Half search engine + half social media = 1 great quality backlink.
• DMOZ
  Best free directory around, acceptance is not guaranteed, but its definetely worth a try, you can also submit RSS feeds.
• FeedAge
  Another free RSS submission site, another great backlink.
• FeedAgg
  Submit your RSS feed for free, not only keeps your lens regularly indexed by Google, but counts as a high quality backlink.
• Viral Bookmarking
  Get your Social bookmarking links a boost.

I think that using .org as your first back link source is most important.I think that your query had been solved.editor's note: see http://www.squidoo.com/rank-first-on-google for complete post

Hi webtarget,
if links are pointing to dead url u are losing all the linkpower pointing to this urls!

You should 301 redirect them

Harry

Hi Amosnet,
I would suggest to write a blog post maybe u also find some semantic other Keywords around your main keyword for this new post - then u can also put this as tags - that can help

Harry

Hi Naghirniac, I don't think the PR has anything to do with the multiple language.
However, it will increase your Pagerank in localized Google search.

I think if they are now hosted together  google knows it anyway.

We always take care of this before we set up new projects   (From my experience - we in our projects could not see any difference - I think if your projects are good and have value then it dos not matter if thy are on same IP or not. ( If u going to get different IP - don't do SEO Hosting - google will now that all this IP´s are going to the same location).

Harry

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. ;)" 
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I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Samuel, As you know that duplicate content in word press can easily be identified through various plugins. Here's is a way  to How To Solve the Duplicate Content  & Resolving Duplicate Content.

I hope that you will found the solution.

I think if u are the first website that google crawls and finds the content - then it will look to google that you published the original content.

If u put the same articles on some article directories it could happen that thy are being crawled faster - so u end up having content with now value (duplicate content) because the found it first on a different page.

Harry

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Hi,

Yes, Justian is absolutely right, knowing your competitors is fundamental when want to do good SEO! Checking out your competitors‘ backlinks is definelty the best way to start looking for healthy link opportunities. I would go for the LRT’s competitive link detox (CDETOX). The tool checks yours and your competitor’s (up to 9) backlinks and tells you, which ones are healthy ones and which ones are not. You can sort the links by their power and their link risk, so it is a good way to decide on which sites you’d like to build a link. I think knowing if the links are bad or good ones is essential when trying to copy the competitors‘ links, caus in the end it doesn’t help having the same links as your competitors if they are bad ones!

Also the tool calculates your total link risk and your competitors‘ total link risks‘ so it is a good way to see what kind of link risk is normal in the particular niche or you can see if it is likely that some competitors will be punished by a penalty in the near future. This is also good to know when planning your own link building strategy.

Regarding the recommended amount of backlinks created per week I have to say that the most important thing here is that you link growth is steadily and increases slowly! Everything else would look highly unnatural. Of course, some seasonal fluctuations might be normal for a particular industry, e.g. a higher link growth some weeks before christmas and so on …

Hope this helped a bit.
Cheers,
Harry

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 Simon, As you know that both  http://www.example.com and http://example.com are seen by Google as two different sites.

Regardless of how you choose the website name i.e www or non www , we don't worry about the people,they will always find a way to visit both the www & non www versions of your site. It is impossible to handle both the cases. Inspite of this people will always find a way to visit both the www and the non-www versions of your site. It is imperative that you handle both cases.

As we know that www is a sub domain, so site without www can create duplicate content issues.

To solve this problem of duplicate content  you had to add the site in Webmaster Tools and  simply use the choose the preferred domain version: then redirect [301] the non-preferred version to the preferred one:

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Shelly, As we know that Infographics plays a crucial role for marketing of a websites.

Here are 10 awesome tools to make infographic.

You should know some ways to promote your infographics ;

1.7 ways to promote your business.

2. 11 ways to promote your infographic.

As we know that infographic help us to promote your business but there are some mistakes that people make while using Infographic.

6 Mistakes make with infographic

I hope that you will like the solution.

Hello Vjay, First of all a video sitemap is an XML file that tells search engines where videos can be found on a website. It helps search engines understand that it is indeed a video file, what the video content is, and what the technical specifications of the specific video are.

For more information or find the easy steps to create & submit a video site map , Please refer to the link.

http://www.reelseo.com/how-video-sitemaps/

&

http://fourblogger.com/how-to-create-video-sitemap-more-traffic/

Hi Skunk, As you had already mentioned that you want a tools that connects to your mini group & from which you can easily share the data. So here is the Minigroup tool for your organization which is user friendly.

If you need more tools then visit below:

15 Free Tools.

Amazing Project Management Tools.

I hope that you will found the solution.

Hey Adam I think the users not accepting Cookies might be comprising the "other visitor" category.And also I have never seen a higher percentage of this category(normally being between 0-1%).Webtrends also has this third category by the name of "Users Not Accepting Cookies"; the other two categories are new visitors and returning visitors.

Hi Commerce, I was certainly came across a blog post on this topic on Google's Webmaster Central blog, it covers most of the questions around 404 errors.

Generally speaking:

• If these are pages that you removed, then the 404 HTTP result code is fine.
• If these are pages that changed addresses, then you should 301 redirect to the new addresses. How you do this depends on your setup, for Apache-servers you may be able to use the .htaccess file for this.
• Unless these are pages that used to receive a lot of traffic from search, these 404s won't be the reason for your site's traffic dropping like that. Google understands that the web changes and that URLs disappear - that is not a reason for Google to stop showing your site.

So my recommendation would be to check the URLs that are listed as 404 crawl errors. If any are important, then set up redirects to the appropriate new URLs as soon as you can. If none of them are important, then keep this in mind as something worth cleaning up when you have time, but focus on the rest of your site first. Often drastic drops in traffic are due more to the general quality of the website, so that's what I'd recommend working on first.

For more deatails  refer to  How to Fix Crawl Errors.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Squall, As you mentioned that you had three e-commerce websites & all are in same niche i.e English Speaking. So I want to tell you about same thing in link, please refer to this.

http://www.mikeliebner.com/internet-marketing/duplicate-content-is-an-urban-legend-kinda/

The link that was mentioned above solves your query & this is not enough. You should know the reason that why Gooogle penalize you & for this please refer to this link.

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/6-reasons-why-google-will-penalize-you.html

I hope that all of your queries are solved.

Hi Marcel,
are the websites using the same DNS and do the have the same page owner (same Analytics ID,....)

Then don't think about another IP

Harry

Hi Martin,

Rel="nofollow" can be used with the following syntax:

[Lousy Punks!](http://www.seomoz.org)

Links can have lots of attributes applied to them, but the engines ignore nearly all of these, with the important exception of the rel="nofollow" tag. In the example above, by adding the rel=nofollow attribute to the link tag, we've told the search engines that we, the site owners, do not want this link to be interpreted as the normal, "editorial vote." Nofollow came about as a method to help stop automated blog comment, guestbook, and link injection spam, but has morphed over time into a way of telling the engines to discount any link value that would ordinarily be passed. Links tagged with nofollow are interpreted slightly differently by each of the engines.

Note that the sub-folders will not be crawled too.

I hope that you will found the solution.

Hi Serge, First of all I want to SSL error  is about the the certificate issue error & not of the server error.here I'm defining you the steps to fixed the error:

FIXED: Here’s how I fixed this problem (you do not need to buy or install any 3rd party certificates or software), the certification error is nothing to worry about. You can fix the error by following these steps:
1. Navigate to the page where you are presented with the Certificate Error and click on “Certificate Error” in the Address bar 
2. Click on “View Certificates” 
3. Click on “Install Certificate” and then Next 
4. Select “Place all certificates in the following store” and click on Browse 
5. Select “Trusted Root Certificate Authorities” and click on OK and then Next and Finish 
6. Click on Yes and OK if you are asked whether you would like to install the certificate 
7. Click on OK twice to exit windows and close and then open Internet Explorer

You should no longer get the Certificate Error. 
You can get more detailed information about how to fix this problem fromhttp://www.ubishops.ca/faqs/Cert.htm or http://www.brightvisions.co.uk/

Secondly, the piece of code from htaccess ,Sometimes you may need to make sure that the user is browsing your site over securte connection. An easy to way to always redirect the user to secure connection (https://) can be accomplished with a .htaccess file containing the following lines:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]

Please, note that the .htaccess should be located in the web site main folder.

In case you wish to force HTTPS for a particular folder you can use:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} somefolder 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/somefolder/$1 [R,L]

The .htaccess file should be placed in the folder where you need to force HTTPS.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi  Alex,  as you mentioned that you want some ad words training to some of your staff which had no knowledge of SEO/PPC so I am referring you the links from which your both query  had been easily solved.

1. http://www.pagezero.com/publications/google-adwords-guide.php#freedownload & http://ppcblog.com/comprehensive-course-just-for-google-adwords/

2.http://www.squiz.co.uk/services/training/adwords-101 & http://emoneymakingonline.com/2010/05/10/free-adwords-course-for-beginners/ & http://www.adwordsstrategy.com/for-ppc-beginners-only-adwords-academy-online-training-course/.

I am sure that by referring the above links your whole problem had been easily solved.

Hi Martin, yes u are right its no sew easy

Since about 6 month we are using a Link managing Tool that also provides a Mail-Ticket System inside - since that time we don't have this problem any more.

The Software is  Calley http://www.linkbird.de/  (I think its also available in english)

Harry

Hi David, For SEO to be effective it is important that the search engine spiders and web crawlers can properly index a site. Based on your site's architecture and its links (both external and internal) the engines can establish and weight the profile of how each interacts to map out which pages have the highest significance to their index.

One of the most effective ways of encouraging full and extensive visiting and indexing of your site by the spiders is to integrate a site map (or maps) into your development. Sitemaps are an easy way for web masters to represent the structure of a site and inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. Human visitors also appreciate site maps as navigation.

An HTML sitemap is an actual page on a site containing links to the website's most important pages. Any site with anything approaching complex navigation should consider an HTML sitemap for visitors. Whilst an HTML sitemap can be read and the links followed by spiders (so some passing of link juice is involved that might affect SEO), it also has the advantage of being readable by humans as well.

A visitor might refer to an HTML site map to help them navigate when they can't find a specific page easily. This visitor readability and usability issue that allows users to locate pages within a large site will give weight to your site in the SERP's, (search engine ranking pages) as they will weight your pages favourably for catering to your users and being user-friendly.

HTML sitemaps, however offer only a general guide to a site, an overview, not necessarily containing all the links available to spider in a website. This is especially the case for websites that contain dynamically generated pages (shopping carts, etc).

editor's note: for complete post, see http://www.seoconsult.com/on-page-search-engine-optimisation/what-effect-do-xml-and-html-sitemaps-have-in-relation-to-seo.html

I hope that you r query has been solved.

Hi Ssssrpm, This is happened most of the times specially in the office which have about 15 computers & all are running on the same ip address. I advice you to use hide my ip software & then work. Most of the times when the google search is used then this happened  according to google ters & conditions.

Google analyzes that the most of the searches are came from the same ip address because you are using about the 15 computers with same ip address. that 's why due to security issue the google for captcha.

But there are different coders which develops the software to resolve the captcha issue but they are in black hat category according to google conditions.

i hope that you 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 Zapprabbit, For you to understand the Rel Cannonical errors you must visit the Cannonical URL Tag.

In wordpress these cannonical url errors are fixed up with all in one seo wordpress plugin.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Matt, First of all I want you to take a look at the below where I am describing the pros & cons of the sub domain & separate domain;

1. Subdomain

• Maybe technically easier for some setups

• Has some of the benefits of subfolder in inheriting parent domain authority and separate domain in providing backlinks to main site, but…

• Needs to establish its own reputation through backlinks from other sites so…

• Will not rank as highly or as quickly as a subfolder

2. Separate domain

• Helps you control and generate external backlinks for which you control the anchor text, i.e. editorial links within blog copy back to category and product pages

• Can create a more differentiated brand identity which can be seen as independent from the main site so generates more engagement with it’s audience potentially

• Can target a different country, i.e. I have seen UK companies launching a US hosted blog

• You may not rank competitively at all for weeks or months depending on the quality of the content you create. This may be hard to sell to your colleagues investing in it – it’s an act of faith…

• Will require a long-term commitment to content creation and backlink development

So, to summarize If you create exceptional content which creates a lot of backlinks then separate domain can be valuable in providing links back to the main site from a separate authority site you control.

For more details please refer to this link:

Understanding  root domains-Sub domians

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 Jmacek07, I would like to tell you about the Neagtive SEO.

It is the black hat seo technique used to attack a website.

Negative SEO sometimes get penalized in SERPS or it results in sometimes banned the website which will may affects the target website by search engines.

As you already know that these Negative SEO techniques mostly used by the new & small organization because it would leads to higher in ranking without doing any hard work.But we should know that when negative seo is most effective.

Today negative seo are being very common because  neagtive seo does'nt needs too much efforts,hardwork to increase the  rank of a particular websites.

For more details please check the Becoming Common -Negative SEO

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Shawn, As per mentioned above, you need some tool that helps you to find out the  keywords.

Here I'm sending the link to the various tools please check it:

1.http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/

2.http://www.gorank.com/seotools/

3.http://www.seoconsult.com/seo-tools/what-google-sees.html

4.http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

Hope that your problem will be 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.

Hi Taylor, As I had done some of the analysis for your both domains. If you use both domain then it will hurt your ranking according to google.

The analysis that I had done as below:

shwoodshop.com

This is website that have Page rank =5

Google Indexing Backlinks=274

Secondly your shop.shwoodshop.com is redirect to http://shwoodshop.com/collections/all   these page which have following factors:

This is website that have Page rank =4

Google Indexing Backlinks=274

One of the most important issue that I found that your website does not have 301 redirect error set up.

This would results that there are two separate domains i. e http://www.shwoodshop.com/ & http://shwoodshop.com/, so it is better to redirect it to the one & only single page according to their preferred domain.

Below there is a link which tells you that multiple domain are bad for SEOm& website too:

http://www.seo.com/blog/multiple-domains-seo/

&

http://blog.ineedhits.com/tips-advice/why-owning-multiple-domain-names-is-bad-for-seo-02539442.html

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi MirandaP, Below there is a list of tools that helped you alot;

1.20 Free Online tools for website speed testing.

2.10 best tools.

3.6 tools to find out the website speed

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Brad, An ‘Authority site‘ is a site that seems to get an extra ranking boost from the search engines. Somehow, in their analysis of the site and its backlinks profile, the search engine algorithm recognizes a site as being an ‘Authority’. Getting backlinks from sites that are seen by the search engines as an authority are close to being the sorts of links that probably past the most link juice, so they are much sought after.

The authority of the site linking in to yours is measured, and the boost to your SEO is measured accordingly. If you have 100 or more backlinks, but they all come from sites with little or authority in your niche then they're all but worthless. If these backlinks come from sites with more links than content (a linkfarm) then your ranking is damaged by participating in the linkfarming. 
For checking the backlinks of a particular website then you must use a tool that is free of cost & gives yu all the details of the backlinks.

BackLinkWatch.

I hope that you will found the solution.

Hi Naghirniac , anyways you should not look at PR - but if u want to implement more languages make sure you do it in the right way. I mean don't use subdomains like english.yourweb.com (if u are using subdomains u will loos all your already build up power of the domain - and you would have to do link building also 4 all this new sub domains). The reason 4 this is that google sees the subdomain as new domain. So if u want to implement new languages try to do it like www.yourweb.com/en/..... so the domain will stay the same and all the link power and authority (and PR ;-))  you build already will stay there!

There might be several reasons why only one page has been crawled by SEOmoz. I think you should visit - https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page

This should shed some light on your problem

Hope you find the solution here. All the best!

Hi Kevin, First of all congratulations for the ton of traffic from Facebook to your blog article on your website. I'm referring you a link which solves your problem that where the eactly the traffic coming from:

http://webservices.ahc.ufl.edu/2011/12/22/google-analytics-and-social-interaction-part-ii/

&

http://www.webbedmarketing.com/how-to-use-the-google-analytics-url-builder/