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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.

Hi urban fox, i think we talked about a simular topic a while ago. I have got a bit more info lately from Matt Cutts.

If you have domains hosted in different countries, lets say .au and .uk with duplicate content, that is not a problem, but the sub directories with duplicate content is.

He did mentiion that you should have your dollar and pound sybols as well as date formats and teh like correct for each tld.

You have a few link juice leaks though unessasary 301 redirects, every 301 leaks link juice so if you dont need then youy should avoid.

take this redirect

The link to "http://www.keystonemortgages.co.uk/blog" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.keystonemortgages.co.uk/blog/".

you have added a "/" using a 301, but why not link directly to the final url in the first place and stop the leak.

here is another
The link to "http://www.keystonemortgages.co.uk/images/blacktriangle.gif" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.keystonemortgages.co.uk/images/BlackTriangle.gif".

you see the diff in capitalization, you need to link directly to the final url again. if i was you i would 301 all urls to lowercase, the it is easy to remember how to write them when making links, others will also generaly link to you using lowere case

You have 78 cases like this.
You also have a few missing descriptions and some non-relevent link text, "more" , never waste link text, get a keyword in there.

email me i will send you a list of the errors i spoted.

Not quite, he will get a little bit from the order of keywords, phrase rather then broad

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

This can be a big problem, I asume that your site 301 redirect to one or the other. All your internal links should point to the url that it redirect to. Every link leaks link juice, if you have a 301 it leaks twice. site wide this can mean a lot of link juice going up in smoke. there is not much you can do about the external links you already have, but if you fix the problem you can eliminate it in the future.
I have a tutorial on how to create a 301 to fix this for Windows servers
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-issues-involving-the-trailing-slash

If you want too provide your url, either here or private message, i can loook into this probllem for you.

I should also mention that SE's see the 2 urls with and without as 2 different pages and your rank is split

2 things.

your site map takes for ever to load,

and the links in site map have a trailing "/" but then 301 redirect to a non traling "/" url
http://www.showme.com/careers/ redirects to http://www.showme.com/careers

also Duane Forester from bing states , you should not places every url into your site map, nut only the most important pages, he also states that if your sitemap is not acurate Bing will ignore it.

but anyhow in bing WMT you can submit pages directly to the index, in the index section look for submit urls.

Sorry, I did misread, I apologize

PS he will get a little for phrase rather then broad, but your right, not worth the effort

i dont like the youtube idea either. i like to have control over my content

i dont what your skills are as far as web development are. but this is what I would do.

Get a account with Windows Azure (microsofts cloud), use this for your cdn, host all your images and vidioes scripts and css files. you can host your whole site if you want. but just using the cdn is very cheap.

Then make a video viewer, i use silverlight but you can use flash, i am sure there is plenty of ready made solutions, and point to the video on Azure.

costs can be as little as 10c a month, even if you are very busy i doubt costs woul dbe more then a few dollars a month.

No thats not a problem, SE will follow what you do, its if you have external links pointing to those pages is the proble, they will be 301 redirected and you will lose a little link juice. buyt if you dont fix it, you will keep getting teh problem.

If you have 2 external links pointing to url/ and url, then SE see that as 2 different pages each with one link. If you 301 it, they will see it as 1 page with 2 links, one a 301 redirect that loses a little LJ. My asumpution is that a 301 leaks 15%, others say a bit less, i wint go into who is right and wrong, we really dont know, but it is confiremmd that it does leak. so haveing 2 pages each with 1 links is not as good as having 1 page with 1.85 links. It would be better if you had both links pointing to the same verion of the page of cause.
Get that fixed pronto, then make sure all your internal links point to the correct version.
Do it site wide, as i said the search engines will ajust next crawl or 2.

You are correct. it will be for all purposes a US search. I have no evidecnce not to believe so.

They will be ignored if you do this.

For large redirect projects, you’ll need to get dirty and redirect all that
you want to keep the value from.  There’s no simple way around this.  Skip mass
redirects to a single page, as most won’t end up passing value, and remember:
_keep all redirects pointed to pages which are relevant to the original. _
Skipping this step negates the value.
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/10/06/managing-redirects-301s-302s-and-canonicals.aspx

you are coprrect, this will lead to de-indexing of your pages, unless your scroll page has every product on it at load, but this would mean a slow page for users. I assume that you are going to get pages on scroll via ajax or somthing on demand.

You would need to have to have other pages that link to the products.

I had a look, i was suprised to see 4k followers, nut on closer look, all the commenst i looked at were from other realeaste agents spamming with there own pitch.

some of the likes looked a bit fake, i ma not convinced that it will convert into sales. i would expect customers to be asking what soort of hot water system does it have, when was it last inspected for termites, that sort of think, the only commenst that did not seem to come from RE agents, were like "I wished i lived in Boston, nice house, Wow" Look to me like the staff have posted commenst to make the home look good.
But it may help his rankings, but how many real estate pages have this following, And i still can not see any of these going viral.
I did a bit fo a search and most had either no like or single figuers, i would not spend too much time on it, hopping that my page may the one of the lucky few. I would be doing a lot of others things first.
Another one we will have to agree to diagree on

OK, sorry I was thinking too many pages, not links.
using no-index will not stop PR flowing, the search engine will still follow the links.

it depends one what sort of 404, if its a 404 because its in the index, then i would let them 404 and fade away, if its a 404 because it is a external link then i would 301 to a relevant page, if they ae internal links, then i would correc the link, as not to leak link juice using a 301

I agree, bing for example say only one H1, but for other tags there is no limit, my concern is that it sounds like you my have a problem with keyword stuffing if the page reads un-naturally.

Your site has a lot of technical issues,
You have 553 un-necessary redirects, each one leaks page rank. I had a look at a sample of them and they are all a case of your links pointing to aUrl and being 301 redirect to aUrl/ , not the trailing slash, you need to link directly to aUrl/
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-unnecessary-redirects
You have 208 broken links, they seem like the mostly image links, SE see these as a violation
You have many descriptions missing 138
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-description-is-missing
You have canonical issues leading to a split in page rank
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-multiple-canonical-formats
You have some irrelevant link text, again leaking link juice though relevancy
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-link-text-is-not-relevant
You have large amounts of script in your pages
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-a-large-amount-of-script-code
there are more issues also.

If a fisherman has holes in his net, he has to do a lot more fishing than a man that does not.
If you have violations in your site, you need a lot more links that some one who does not

SEO is not all marketing, your site needs to be crawl frendly.

sorry for being so blunt, but there you are.

It is more a page by page thing, not site wide.
How I understand it, is in 2 parts
QDF Query deserves freshness, when you search for keyword, Google brings back not just the most authoritive, relevant results, it likes to bring back a few fresh ones also, as well as a few local and other factors too, like sites selling keyword, sites with documentary information about keyword.
The freshness update is different again, let’s say you enquire about football, then it is assumed that you want the latest info, like latest results, injuries, team selections and stuff. So Google tries to bring you these results, it also works out who is publishing this information regularly and indexes them more often. It gives these results more importance only why they are fresh.
The freshness update does not affect all queries, if affects about 35% of queries.
If you were looking up George Washington, then you would not expect to see the freshness update affect results.

You could try using either the global.asx file or a http model to do the rewiring, global.asx would be the easiest.

from memory the begin_request event would be the one to use.

the thing is you need to do the rewriting earlier in the event cycle.