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We are launching a video dense website.   Is there any evidence that having a .tv tld can help with video optimization?  We are trying to find proof that Google looks at a .tv tld favorably for video SEO as opposed to a .tv website.

We are currently working with a client that relaunched their website two months ago to have hypertext transfer protocol secure pages (https) across their entire site architecture.   The problem is that their non secure (http) pages are still accessible and being indexed in Google.

Here are our concerns:

1.  Are co-existing non secure and secure webpages (http and https) considered duplicate content? 
2.  If these pages are duplicate content should we use 301 redirects or rel canonicals? 
3.  If we go with rel canonicals, is it okay for a non secure page to have rel canonical to the secure version?

Thanks for the advice.

I'm doing a year to year traffic audit for a client.  I would like to analyze Google Analytics source/medium traffic by percent change.   Is there a way to do this?  Do I have to create a custom variable?

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Excellent response. Thanks Michael.

Today I noticed that one of my colleagues was pointing rel canonical tags to a third party domain on a few specific pages on a client's website.  This was a standard rel canonical tag that was written

Up to this point I haven't seen too many webmasters point a rel canonical to a third party domain.  However after doing some reading in the Google Webmaster Tools blog I realized that cross domain rel canonicals are indeed a viable strategy to avoid duplicate content.

My question is this; should rel canonical tags be written the same way when dealing with internal duplicate content vs. external duplicate content?   Would a rel=author tag be more appropriate when addressing 3rd party website duplicate content issues?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

thanks guys.

We have a special wordpress theme for nataliecass.com.  Unfortunately the theme is blocking all the alt tags (this is a photography website...alt tags are very important).  Does anybody know of any special WP plugins for alt tags?

Thanks

so just to be clear, this is the display URL I'm talking about not the actual destination URL.  The destination URL is working fine.

Today I had a colleague ask me if Google Adwords will penalize text ads that have display URLs that land on 404 pages.  I fully understand the policy that the domains in display URLs and destination URLs have to match up or Google will disapprove the text ad.  However if the display url contains the proper domain (and a target keyword phrase for a file folder) will Google penalize the text ad quality score if the display URL lands on a 404?  I had trouble finding specific evidence for this.

I'm trying to apply schematic markup to our client's website to help influence the knowledge graph.  Can anybody give me the exact schematic markup for business CEO, founder and founding date?   I've visited schema.org and know the markup exists...but I want to make sure I'm applying them properly.

Thanks!

We are having an issue with our cilent's blog creating excessive duplicate content via blog tags.  The duplicate webpages from tags offer absolutely no value  (we can't even see the tag).   Should we just 301 redirect the tagged page or use a rel canonical?

Excellent response Alan!  Thanks

We have a client that is creating a new promotional website that consists of videos, brands and product reviews (SITE B).  After a visitor watches a video on SITE B they will be given a "click to purchase" option that will lead them to the original website (SITE A).

Our client is paranoid that since all the outgoing links on the new SITE B are going to the original SITE A there might be algorithm penalty (for one website or both).   I find this very unlikely and even recommend "no follow" coding for a peace of mind.  However are there any resources/links out there that can back up my argument that they will be alright?

Thanks

I have heard conflicting answers to this.   I always figured that it was okay to selectively copy and paste on page content into the meta description tag.....especially if the onpage content is well written.    How can it be duplicate content if it's pulling from the exact same page?

Does anybody have any feedback from a credible source about this?

Thanks.

We are trying to update the Google Knowledge graph for one our clients.  We would like to have company founding date, CEO's name and founder name in the knowledge graph.  This information is already included in their wikipedia entry.

Where else can we make changes to update this knowledge graph?  Is their structured data option for founding dates, CEO/founder names?   Should we include this information in their Google+ profile?    We are using the publisher tag.   We are not sure how to update the freebase account.