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Hi Tyler,

It's a good thing to use the HTTPS version of the badge on your HTTPS pages because otherwise, the page would be reported as unsecure by the browser to the user.

On the other hand, displaying HTTPS ressources on a HTTP page matters. Downloading and decrypting the secured ressources will use more bandwidth and CPU on the server and client side. In other words, HTTPS is slimply slower than HTTP so it will be detrimental to the user experience.

The difference might not be signigicant, but it's always good to keep that in mind. So, I simply suggest you match the protocol of the ressources with the one of the requested URL. HTTPS with HTTPS and HTTP with HTTP.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi AzGuy,

Aaron Wall just did a great review of it on his blog : http://www.seobook.com/complete-review-wordtrackers-link-builder

I did not try it yet, but I'll definitely take the free trial and I think you should also see for yourself, it's the best way to know if it fits your needs.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Maria,

Your menu is not optimized, but the real problem is not coming from there. Your home http://www.medixschool.ca/ has a meta refresh leading to http://www.medixschool.ca/Home/index.php instead of a 301 redirect.

You should remove this meta refresh and replace it by a 301 redirection.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Olivier,

Here's FaceBook API policy : If you exceed, or plan to exceed, any of the following thresholds please contact us as you may be subject to additional terms: >100M API calls per day.

Source : http://developers.facebook.com/policy/

So, are you planing to have over 100M API calls per day?

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi,

The answer to your main question is yes, do a search on google for filetype:doc or filetype:txt and you'll see tons of doc and txt files indexed.

The answer to your second question, if they offer any SEO, is a little more complex. You should try and see if you can get a page to be indexed if it is only linked from doc files.

Judging by my experience, I rarely see doc or txt files in the SERPs and even more rarely click on them if they show up. I'd rather do a HTML version of the page with a link to download the doc file in a directory blocked to spiders to avoid duplicates.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Olivier,

You will probably find the answer to your question in this blog post :
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/make-facebook-comments-box-indexable-by-search-engines

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hey Michelle,

Short answer is contextual link.

Regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Rory,

That's not the default tendency of apache. If the file doesn't exist, it would normaly return a 404 error. You might have a .htaccess file on your server with some rewrite rule that allow such thing to happen. I might also be a misconfiguration trying to show a wrong default 404 page.

Also, to fix your broken css/images/links when the page is in a subdirectory, you should use urls relative to the root of your domain, so instead of simply using href="css/main.css" you might want to use href="/css/main.css".

Finaly, have you looked at your HTTP headers to see if this page was returning a 404 or a 200 code? For your default 404 page, you might want to look at this : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument

Regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Richard,

Might be because your server was down at the moment their crawler tried to reach your website.  By using the http://www.seomoz.org/term-extractor tool, I'm able to extract the keywords for barbedshop.co.uk so the problem is probably solved now.

Regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hey Sean,

I looked at the cached version of the YouTube channel of BMW ( http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.youtube.com/bmw&hl=fr&lr=&sa=G&strip=1 ) and it doesn't seem to have any kind of redirect on this one.

You might have seen a redirect because you were logged into your account and looking at your own channel, like when you can edit it, so probably by logging out or by looking at the cached version by Google you should see that it is a plain juice flowing link.

Regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

P.S. Look at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.youtube.com/user/PretavoirUK&hl=fr&lr=&sa=G&strip=1

Hey,

I see that your website is still out of Google's index but it does show up in Bing. I saw your website was using WordPress, so may be it was hacked and you might not know.

Did you look if you had any messages in your Google Webmaster Tools account?  Have your verified your website and submited a sitemap in it?

In case you don't know what is Google Webmaster Tools, you can find it there :
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

This place is used for Google to communicate with you if they have a problem with your website.  So if they found out it was hacked, you should have a message about that there.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Ça fait plaisir Martin!

Si ma réponse t'as été util, ne néglige pas le bouton Good Answer!

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hey Supriya,

I'm happy to learn that you've found the link I sent you helpful. If it answered your question, do not neglect the Good Answer button!

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hey Zack,

It seems your website is now returning a 200 so you apparently managed to fix the problem.

Was the problem coming from the server configuration as I suggested?

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Monique,

The solution is simple, ask him to put something like that in your default.aspx file, he should understand :

If Request.Url.ToString() = "/default.aspx" Then
    Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
    Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.quicklearn.com/")
End If

These 4 lines (not 2 finaly, I forgot how asp was... asp) should do the trick.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi,

You might want to fill a reconsideration request then :
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi,

I confirm this problem is not new, it already existed 5 years ago when I started doing SEO. At that time, I ask about this and I've been told that is might be because the 10 results and 100 results queries were not returned by the same servers that might have not use the same algorithm.

I also noticed a strange behavior from Google two weeks ago that navigating from pages 10 to page 1 wouldn't display the results in the same order than navigating from page 1 to page 10. Like if once you reached the 10th page, I would be then using a different server using a different algorithm.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi,

I totaly agree, you should also add content to the alt tag of the images. About the speed optimization, I would not only look into the images, but also look at the code of the page itself.

There are a lot of inline CSS and JavaScript that could be move to external files and you could also combine and minimize your external JavaScript and CSS files.

There is also this 28772 character long token generated by ASPX that take a while to be generated and loaded. You could also replace your menus by

There are a lot of improvement that could be done on your website that would make your website load faster and have greater effect than hosting your images elsewhere.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Craig,

If you are running Apache with PHP, then you could look into mod_rewrite and do some URL rewriting for your urls to look like /login/lostpassword instead of /login.php?action=lostpassword

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Zack,

Yes, having the home page return a 404 error is a HUGE problem.  It actually tells the engines that the page doesn't exist so they will stop crawling it and eventualy drop it from their index even if it returns content.

You should solve this problem ASAP!

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.