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Hadn't heard of SEMPO before, look cool - thanks!  Also didn't think about the Google & Bing seals, we'll have to get those.

Good idea on the Authorize.net seal.  We have an Authorize.net account, but didn't think to use it as a trust symbol.  Now that I look at the seal, it looks pretty good and will probably be a nice addition to that section - thanks!

We are working on a website redesign, and want to prominently include some trust signals that help people feel comfortable with us.  We're including logos of a few places we've guest posted, and also the BBB and local chamber of commerce.

Do you have any other ideas on logos we can include that are good trust signals?  Any associations or organizations we could join?

We are a trustworthy company, we just want a way to communicate that visually, and it seems organization seals and logos are the way to go.

Thanks!

Hi Irving, thanks for your reply.  That all makes sense to me except "noindex meta tag them".  They are the same product pages whether they are https or http, so I can't put 'noindex' on exclusively the https page...

Or are you suggesting that I figure out some conditional code that if the https version is called, it inserts a 'noindex'.

Is there a reason nobody is suggestion rel canonical to the http version?

301'ing https versions would not work, because people who belong on the HTTPS versions (because they have something in their cart) would be force-redirected to the non-https version.

I'm thinking that rel-canonical to the http version along with Robots.txt rules as you've suggested may be the way to go.

Hi, I am working with a new e-commerce site.  The way they are setup is that once you add an item to the cart, you'll be put onto secure HTTPS versions of the page as you continue to browse.

Well, somehow this translated to Google indexing the whole site as HTTPS, even the home page.  Couple questions:

1.  I assume that is bad or could hurt rankings, or at a minimum is not the best practice for SEO, right?

2.  Assuming it is something we don't want, how would we go about getting the http versions of pages indexed instead of https?  Do we need rel-canonical on each page to be to the http version?  Anything else that would help?

Thanks!

This is great; I especially like the idea of giving 1 free treatment to a friend - that is clever

Hi Everyone, I am working with a pest control company that is looking to branch out into social media.  Their primary goal is to connect with their existing customers to improve retention.  The secondary goal is to potentially pick up new clients.

With that said, I wanted to see if you all had some ideas on things that they could tweet/facebook about on a regular basis?  Posting about bugs on a daily basis gets pretty boring.

I know Rand has been talking a lot lately about not being so narrow, so maybe we should talk more about general home improvement?  Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks!

EDIT:

I should clarify that this is a company that has maintenance plans.  You don't call them only when you have a problem. You sign up with them, and they treat your property every 3 months, or whenever you call.  Only about 2% of their customer base is one-off phone calls to fix 1 problem and never come back again.

I don't think their existing customer base will have any issues with Liking them on Facebook or following them on Twitter. The initial plan is to incentivize them to do so, but once we get the like/follow, we want to continually be in front of them with interesting content, contests as Jay suggested, etc.

With Rand's new post about the correlation between FB Shares and rankings, I wanted to ask... How is Google able to see what links are being shared?  Does the profile have to be public?  Or do they get anonymous info direct from FB as part of some deal?