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could be from their link/content farm updates; that came before the farmer update.

Wow good answer!

The problem has to do with every page loading a big .htaccess file, therefore slowing down the speed of the server. I probably wouldn't exceed 25, but sometimes you have no choice. Sometimes the PR is more important than the loss in speed.

I'm sure someone can answer this with a more official response, but that's my understanding of it.

Just try to stay away from any fishy looking redirects, as big daddy G will penalize you big time for stuff like that.

nice answer!

It effects it more than just very slightly, and depending on what kind of site you're running it should either be the blog post title, the sitename, or product name.

It won't be penalized officially; the only penalty is that you could get more juice if they weren't duplicates.

Wow, I've never seen that. Thanks for the awesomeness!

I agree with not repeating company name, unless it's a different company than in the base url. Try only making those deep links if you absolutely have to! Good luck!

Google really doesn't pay attention to footer links much anymore. Because of that exact reason: they know they're commonly used for spam and keyword stuffing. Write for humans; not for robots. Good luck!

Google won't use the keyword anchor text in those links so much, but will follow them. They're also very user friendly, and are pretty much expected now a days.

It's definitely worth it! Try changing it to surround page/post title, and keeping it as name/logo only on the homepage.

Thanks

Appreciate the help

Thanks for the help

The guy that worked on this site before was for some reason trying to set up a multiple domain security certificate.

The site's like 10 years old, and of course I have sitemap that is linked through robots.

Any answers related specifically to my question would be appreciated

Great question. I don't think the algorithms go so far as to take this into account for ranking, but that's not to say it couldn't have any effect. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but verisign has the seal-in-search for enabled browsers that shows users secure sites from search. If the seal's link contains some specialized URL that is specific to your site than I wouldn't tamper with it; otherwise I think it's safe.

Searching for any variation of the companies name or domain name returns the correct www.domain.com/ as the result domain, but searching for any variations of site:domain.com/ returns HTTPS://www.domain.com/

Even if I search site:domain.com -blog -product -forum -store -everything -etc

I've done that all the way down to 3 results, none of them are HTTP://www.domain.com/

WTF?!?! does this mean?

I know it means duplicate content, but beyond that. If I 301 to correct domain, or remove the HTTPS version in google webmaster tools will anything drastic happen?!!?

Thanks!

I couldn't imagine it getting flagged if it didn't contain more adult content than just the domain name. As for reduced rankings, you're not gonna catch me givin out bad advice, but I'd definitely look into it further. Good luck!

Haha funny, thanks for the link!