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If you click on the 'Sign Up Now' button in the middle of the page, you move to a https:// page via a 302?

It's the way it was set-up at the start, but I only recently discovered it. Now I'm trying to figure why it was done this way and the best way to resolve it.

My website sends Customers from a http://www.mysite.com/features page to a  https://www.mysite.com/register page which is an account sign-up form using a 302 re-direct.

Any page that collects customer data has an authenticated SSL certificate to protect any data on the site. Is this 302 the most appropriate way of doing this as the weekly crawl picks it up as being bad practise? Is there a better alternative?

@Thompson those articles are perfect for what I am trying to do.

It raised something I hadn't considered - if I host on my own site and allow people to embed the videos on their sites (which is a backlink, right?) it could cause issues with providing additional bandwidth for a good visitor experience!

Also, my own site ranking above YouTube and Vimeo for the content is an important consideration - and probably difficult. I could long tail the titles for YT and Vim and short tail(!) them on my site - I wonder if this would have an influence because most searchers will just use two or three words to find the content?

I'm planning to add a new section to the website that will increase visitor traffic and social sharing by using regularly updated video content.

I'm thinking of adding the videos to YouTube and Vimeo as their own channels and then host those videos on the site aswell using a cloud storage solution. Is this a good overall strategy?

Where would I add it in the URL so it generates the most SEO benefit for the whole website?

www.mysite.com/new-section

www.new-section.mysite.com

I'm using RDFa rich snippets markup on my site and on Google's Structured Data Testing Tool the 5 stars come up in yellow in my listing.

On the web today I checked on indexing progress and the stars are 'red' in the listings - any idea why this might be? Is Google switching them over universally or is it something else?

I recently updated all my website page Titles and was checking to see how many have been crawled so far. On Yahoo/Bing I noticed something very strange when entering site:bandpages.ie in the search field.

Selection Buttons (top of SERPs):

'Web' search shows all my pages indexed

'UK' has has most pages

'Only In Ireland' has just 1 page indexed - which is the site RSS Feed and nothing else!

The site has been live for 2 years now. Considering we don't trade with the UK and our main focus is here in Ireland - what is going wrong? Why doesn't Yahoo/Bing index list the site pages in the Ireland index?

Any insights or solutions appreciated...

I saw your response on my other question and I didn't realise that they could be interlinked.

Thanks for explaining

Thank you Gents, at least I know which report to start following now as they were both slightly different.

Any ideas on how to transfer my keyword list (350) from one campaign to the other one as there is no download option?

Just trying to understand if this is bad or not.

The crawl report has picked up that my website is redirecting (301) from http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com - under Crawl Notices (blue section). Is this the wrong way to do it as we wanted the www domain version? Is that why SEOMoz has flagged it ?

Welcome to the club!

I have been waiting for over a year to have my website (PR5) listed with DMOZ and with no success as yet. The Editors work at their own pace and will list your site if a) there is an Editor for your submitted category b) if they feel like it.

You just have to wait - word of warning though. If you re-submit your site, your original submission will be deleted and you will go to the bottom of the queue again. My advice is to forget about it and move on with your other SEO activities.

I'll PM you my recommendations - can you mark my answer as helpful above too?

I too see some of our competitors using the same tactics and beating us in SERPs. Google has been finger wagging about this for some time now, but on the ground the reality is very different.

I think it comes down to your strategy, do you want to win short term and build a brand relatively quickly or are you in it for the long haul? Short term gain Vs long term pain? The SEO community in general relies on most participants be conscientious with an unwritten set of 'good' behaviours Vs 'bad' behaviours constantly being touted as some form of social movement. This is all very well and fairly inclusive... but the rules of the game as far as I can see don't necessarily translate through in practise.

So, it's essentially down to you and what you want to do. Right answers.... there are very few certainties when it comes to SEO as it's a constantly shifting landscape. Personally I prefer to play by the rules because it's in my nature, others may be more commercially orientated depending on their goals and so they employ a different set of tactics.

Either way good luck!

Hmmmm.... a search form has been on my mind as I would track what people enter and then include them in my keyword research. Top tip!!

This is a really good question as I had a similar issue.

After joining SEOMoz I changed all my page Titles and Descriptions according to the On Page Reports and sure enough I ranked Number 1 for all the keywords and had lots of A's and B's which felt great - problem is that my search engine traffic totally dried up!

What I then realised was that the more words you add to your Page Title that are matched in your Page Text and Descriptions, it becomes more niche - like mid-sized 'long tail keywords' (!) and is very easy to do when offering local services as you will probably include a location and maybe words like 'hire, book or find' aswell.

'Private Dining' is broad and you will probably have a high bounce rate for this term. However 'Private Dining Sacramento' is more locally orientated and your bounce rate should be lower and I imagine this page will probably rank higher in SERPs - question is... is this the term that web users are typing into Google?

This is why keyword research for all your pages is so important as it can guide your overall strategy. My key learning is that it's not about being found for 'found' sake, it's about what the customer is looking for, in your case is there really a market for 'private dining sacramento' or do they search for something else i.e. 'home catering sacramento' etc?

I am now 6 weeks on and traffic is only just starting to come back to my website after re-adjusting my Page Reports back to their original state, so be very careful before you make any changes as getting it wrong and correcting it is a nightmare!

It's always tough when you drop in SERPs so dramatically because the exact diagnoses is tough to find. But these are my pointers to get you started:

1. Look at GWMT to identify any flagged issues? Can it access robots.txt okay?

2. What are the crawl rates like? any patterns?

3. Have you had any web server issues lately?

4. Use the Moz Tools to identify any structural website errors and correct them - I can see a few semantic issues already by looking at the code.

5. Look at your Backlinks and Anchor Text carefully... are any sites or link directories linking to you with 'Ugg Boots' etc.

On another point - your website architecture and page layouts contain a 'lot' of internal links and little text which looks like keyword spamming. I suggest you consider upgrading your website to a professional eCommerce framework... happy to suggest some good ones that I have used if you PM me.

Good luck!

Take a look at this White Board Friday video, it is relevant to the travel industry and contains some good ideas about content and what 'not' to do since Penguin. It may also help with idea generation!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

SEOMoz has a list of directories you could try here: http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Good luck!