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I presume that the engines simply disregard one of the tags vs. building a penalty based rule, but because we'll also use this solution for canonical tags, there's just too much risk with the approach. I still think it may be a solid (simple) test, so if I manage to get some free time, I'll set something up and post results. Consensus says...don't do it! Thanks for confirming my fears

I'm with Brandon. I would try to match the URLs/pages where I could. But other than that if you're coming from a heavy Flash site you're likely to be doing a great service just by uploading the new site. Where you can't match the pages, make sure you implement 301 redirects to the new, similar content. You can good list of your current pages/URLs, as well as meta information with the Screaming Frog Spyder: http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ This way you can plan out your redirect/rewrite/conversion strategy before you have to implement it.

I am reading this and tried it but i must be missing something If your object is in a folder within your bucket, then the folder must also be included in the URL. For example, if image.jpg was located in your bucket's Images folder, then the URL would be: http://d604721fxaaqy9.cloudfront.net/images/image.jpg. i have my domain name d22wnjaygrh83y.cloudfront.net and then my image is jenniferanistonlarge.jpg so i put it together like it says which is d22wnjaygrh83y.cloudfront.net/jenniferanistonlarge.jpg   but nothing comes up if i double click on an image that i was looking at only a few minutes ago in my bucket, i get this <error>AccessDenied<message>Access Denied</message><requestid>311AC6250EC638CC</requestid><hostid>J0dwp7GCiRcxFd1nrQg6fXnCQxt8/6PgrlGEgXpeBaBFXDm7I8f3bYwd6D0Ciifu</hostid></error> not sure why because i have loaded the image to my bucket and i doubled clicked it a few minutes ago and it shown it but now brings the above message up.

I just craweled your site and I found a few html errors, but apart from that I did not find much wrong.

build your own layout, most CMS templates that boast SEO friendly just arent.

I'd use Google Analytics or another analytics program and track your traffic. Traffic increases, you've made progress.

Useing text or alt tag is ok. as a text is visisble and alt tag is not, one tends to believe that search engines will like it better. But dont hide text, a lot of users use text-indent: -99999px to move text off the screen. This is a signal of spam to google.

Good answer. If i were a search engine, and some one searched for a blue widget, i could return a page that mentions a blue widget and has an image, that maybe of a blue widget. Or i could return your page that has a image marked up with HTML5, and microdata telling me that the image is in fact of a blue widget along with all the other details you can mark up with microdata and html5 telling me that the page has a lot of information about blue widgets, i know whitch one i would return to the user.

Make sure that the old URL is at least 301 redirected to a "current" URL to pass on the link juice Next, see if you can contact all the external link sources that point to the old page & ask them to update to point to a different page (if possible)

Hi KJ, We use WordPress for everything from small landing pages to large corporate sites, there is really no replacement for it if used correctly! As far as SEO, you can set anything up to perform, WordPress just makes it easier out of the box. Thanks, Casey

Hi echo1, The Bing mobile website will only show your local results on a mobile browser when someone searches Bing on a mobile device and clicks your result. That's nothing more than a search result. It's clunky and very limited. If you're using wordpress for instance you can simply use a plugin that displays your site in a mobile browser friendly version. Your customization will only be limited by the customization you have on your main site, to an extent. Dependent on what type of platform you use, there are numerous ways to create a mobile version. What is your site platform?

Ah sorry about missing the bracket. Yeah the ? query has to come at the very end, otherwise it interrupts the flow of the URL... So it should be C.com/blogpost-20?redirect=true There is lots you can do, but I understand that it may be a bit more work than you planned

Without knowing more details, we are left to blindly guess at why Bing/Yahoo are not referencing the main site. If all is well with Google, I would start by logging into Bing Webmaster Tools.

To be a competent SEO you need to know a lot about code, because that is where the optimization is done.  So an important thing for you to do is learn enough about code to do the optimization work  and if you can learn more than that it would be even better. In my opinion it is good that your company wants an in-house person to be involved with the site redesign.  Perhaps they would be willing to give you time away from other work to do reading and study to improve your skills.  Ask for it, get as  much as you can. Getting the right designer is really important.  Some of them know a lot about SEO and are extremely competent at it.  Some of them know nothing about SEO and will become defensive if you stick your nose into the code.  Others think that they are the designer and will make you a site - AND YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE IT. So, find the right designer.  One who really knows a lot about SEO and one who knows that you are the boss.   That will make all of the difference.  You don't want this job to be like pulling crocodile teeth.

Great Answer, thanks Phil!  One follow-up question: In my robots.txt for the development site, I have the following: User-agent: * Disallow: / Is this the correct configuration for the robots.txt file to accomplish what I want, that being removing the entire site from being crawled and from the exiting index?  Or should I be configuring it differently? Also, good tip on Webmaster Tools.  I'll be request removal there as well.

Speaking personally (not technically or SEO-ly) I'm not a fan of these pages. I'm the kind of guy who looks at the scrollbar to estimate how long a page is, how far through I am, etc, and when it suddenly lengthens it undermines that certainty. This is merely opinion mind you, but in my experience ecommerce users on average aren't necessarily the savviest when it comes to technology in the first place so doing something like subverting their interface expectations might not be the best move. Another thing that bugs me about these pages, especially for something like categoric listings, is that it's hard to tell exactly how many things are listed. If I'm on page 5 out of 7 I know there's only two more pages of purses to look at and then I have to decide. With this sort of thing it just keeps going. I've also seen some implementations that just repeat the products as soon as you've gotten to the end, and that's even worse. What I find is that most online shoppers want to see everything in the list, but with that kind of structure they might never feel that. Again, this is just 'gut feel'/opinion based and not anything specific or technical that I'm arguing against.