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Vizergy - thanks for that. I have problems trusting anything that Mr. Cutts says, but it makes sense.

What's the forums opinion on using Sponsored Tweets (i.e, sponsoredtweets.com) to drive traffic,links and/or followers?

Has anyone had any experience with it they can share?

Scenario:

Two sites, exactly the same with a form to capture customer details on the home page (e.g. name, address).

Would Google rank a site that uses HTTPS over a site that uses HTTP?

From what I've heard, they would trust the HTTPS site more than HTTP and therefore rank it higher.

Forum opinions?

Say I've got a site that can be accessed using either protocal (i.e. HTTP and HTTPS), but most (if not all of the links) are pointing to the HTTP versions. Will it cause a problem if I start link building to HTTPS versions?

In other words does google see http://mysite.com as the same page as https://mysite.com?

Thanks

I think I may do the same. Although the site doesn't have many thin pages, I'm gonna get rid of any that might seem unnecessary and see what happens from there.

I've really gone off Pandas

All of them pretty much. Competitive keywords have dropped and so have any long tails. Pretty bad state of affairs!

Naghirniac - thanks for your answer.

Granted, but which is the best for SEO?

I'm thinking, surely I can just do a simple 301?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to redirect all http requests to https for a site's homepage. It only needs to be for the homepage, not site wide.

What's the best method of doing this without losing pagerank or ranking?

I'm using IIS7.5 so I've been looking at a URL Rewrite or possibly this ASP.Net solution;

http://www.xdevsoftware.com/blog/post/Redirect-from-Http-to-Https-in-ASPNET.aspx

Or is a simple 301 or 302 (for some reason Microsoft's site says to do a 302 re-direct, though I'm not sure if this is great from an SEO perspective?) re-direct from http version to the https version the best method?

Also if the solution retained the URL query string that would be even better!

Any help appreciated! Thanks

Yes, tell me about it. This site is back to the same place it was about a year ago.

It's even more frustrating to see competitors using completely black hat and spammy tactics and still sitting in positions #1 #2 and #3

Well mainly, a site that was ranking top 4 for it's target keyword has dropped to page 2.

It's also lost site wide ranking for numerous other keywords.

As it's site wide, it seems pretty clear to me that the Panda has struck again.... Blasted Panda!

Similar story for you?

http://searchengineland.com/google-confirms-panda-update-link-evaluation-local-search-rankings-113078

or indeed any other other 40 changes Google have announced?

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html

Unfortunately I have in a bad way. Almost exactly a year after it first happened with Panda!

I'm Angry!

Since starting this thread, it's apparent that Panda 3.3 is the culprit here

Hmmm, interesting reading.

That could be the cause then - I assume it's live!

Thanks for the info Marcus.

I suppose dodgy is the wrong word, "un-natural looking" would probably be better.

The site doesn't have loads of dodgy links, there's some for sure, but most of it's links are from guest or sponsored posts - so I guess this could look potentially un-natural.

That's what my thoughts were, but I'm thinking if one more dodogy link was all that was needed to trigger an algorithmic penalty that it could be the cause....?

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what's caused it otherwise!

Yeah, could be a penalty as it's definitely site wide. But I've been in this situation before and the site recovered after building a few 'quality' links.

Does anyone know if one "potentially dodgy" link can trigger an algorithmic penalty? or should I be looking at other potential factors?

I also bought a site wide side bar graphic advert recently (which incidentely hasn't been nofollowed), but it's from a reputable, decent site - is this more likely to have caused the problem?

I suspect (Although find it hard to beleive!) that a recently aquired link may have affected the rankings of one of my sites for all of it's keywords.

Should I get this link removed asap or leave it and see if things recover?

To me, it just smacks of un-nautral if the link gets removed straight away.

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for responding, the site is guarantorloanscompany.co.uk

Dropped for all it's keywords!

The only thing I can think is that it might be to do with a link I acquired late last week that is pointing to some new content, so I'm tempted to get that removed. However, it seems a bit extreme to just be that!