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I've read all your links and what I understand is an http link to schema.org is best practice. yes?

I have been using the Firefox duster app to clean up my css so only the page rendering css is loaded when my page is loaded. But it doesn't seem to be working now. Does anyone know of another tool that will do this for me?

I'm getting an html validation error on relative schema.org links

"Bad value //schema.org/Organization for attribute itemtype on element div: The string //schema.org/Organization is not an absolute URL."

This is my code for https site:

<code class="input">e itemtype="//schema.org/Organization"><a itemprop="url" class="navbar-brand" …<="" code=""></a></code>

I have set up a URL parameter in Webmaster tools call "session_id". My company uses this parameter to determine what template and what content to display.

It is set up like so:

Parameter                                  Effect           Crawl

| session_id | 50 | Aug 14, 2013 | Specifies | Let Googlebot decide |

I feel I have set it up correctly, but I am getting many webmaster tools errors with session_id's. I am not seeing errors on the other parameters I have set up. Any ideas why Google is not seeing this one?

I apologize for filing this under the wrong categories.

I talked to Google+ today and here's the confusion in case anyone else has this problem.

I created my Business profiles in Google.com/places and then created Google+ profiles separately.

When "places" became "Business" separate Google+ profiles were created for "Local" businesses.

So the Google+ profiles I had created became "Brand" profiles. The Google+ profiles Google created became "Local" profiles. So essentially I had two profiles, but I was only posting to the "Brand" profile I created.

To connect them go to here: https://support.google.com/business/answer/6010825?hl=en
Click on "I've already created a page for my business, but it's not connected to Google Maps"

I had to delete the other "local" profiles which luckily had few followers, since they shared the same address.

As soon as I'm verified as the owner via postcard the problem should be solved.

Thank you for your help.

I had a Google places/local account with several different businesses listed at the same address--they are separate businesses. I recently received an email from Google saying this violated their terms of use. I am not allowed to have several businesses listed in Google local with the same address. Google decided which of the businesses to keep and which to neglect, despite my request. So essentially they are putting us out of business by not including our money-maker in local results.

Recently my company moved and now we have different suite numbers for each business. A customer can come into any of those and purchase in person, or they can purchase online.

In trying to clean up my Google local account, I deleted the least important businesses, trying to get the "money maker" on local results. But now I cannot have a local account because I do not have 10 businesses listed, but I cannot have 10 businesses because they all have the same address (now different suite #'s).

My Google+ pages have been deleted due to the Local business deletion.

When I search for our main keyword, companies come up from all over the US but none in Arizona where we are located.

Is there any way to get my Google plus pages back? Is there any way to get my main site back on Google local?

Can I assign a Google + page with a company?

the http URL will not work on an https page. I have changed the URL to https and it works in http and https sites. Thank you.

After reading some Google documentation I set it up like this:

<url><loc>http://www.mexpro.com/</loc>
  <lastmod>2014-08-25T21:02:47+00:00</lastmod>
  <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
  <priority>1.00</priority>
  <xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
                 hreflang="es-mx"
                 href="https://www.mexpro.com/mx/"
                 />
  <xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
                 hreflang="en"
                 href="http://www.mexpro.com/"
                 />
  <xhtml:link <br="">rel="canonical"
                 href="http://www.mexpro.com/mexico/"
                 /></xhtml:link></xhtml:link></xhtml:link></url>

Do I need rel="alternate" and rel="canonical" for the sitemap, or is it better to do a traditional sitemap for English and Spanish?Thank you.

I have a site where some pages (in Spanish) are https. The english pages are http. Can you tell me if it's okay to have both in the sitemap.xml?

I have the same issue as Moosa. I have a site where some pages (in Spanish) are https. The english pages are http. Can you tell me if it's okay to have both in the sitemap.xml?

Is it possible to have schema.org itemtypes for both secure and insecure ports? I run a static-ish site made in Jekyll, and am implementing Schema.org on the individual pages. As a result, I'm trying to use the following:

   

This doesn't validate with Google's Rich Snippet Tool. It doesn't register the Items as existing. Is there a good way to implement Schema.org in a static page hosted on both SSL and non-SSL ports?

If I have some pages in English, but not in Spanish on my website:

Should my hreflang go to the home page on the Spanish site?

Or should I not have an "es-MX" hreflang for that page?

Ideally I would have all the pages translated, but this has not all been done yet.

What we're trying to accomplish is to have a non-sequential string for secure applications without a user login (due to business reasons).  The string is a unique identifier for a specific application in our system, and will always point at the same form.

For example:

http://localhost:3000/en-US/app/a-**knsmtrhqrqs**/personal

where knsmtrhqrqs is a string

Can Google tell this is a string and what's their policy? Will it hurt rankings?

Thank you.

I know that paid for links are hit by Google, but in the past these directories were okay. What about now?

Thank you.

I checked with MailChimp and it is not indexed.

I would like to post my newsletters on my blog, but am afraid of duplicate content since you can click a link on the MailChimp email blast to view the Newsletter online. Is this considered dup content?

A year ago an SEO specialist evaluated my Wordpress site and said she had seen lower rankings for Wordpress sites--in general. We moved our site off any cms and design in html 5. Our blog, however, is still on Wordpress. I'm thinking about moving to the Ghost platform b/c I only a blog. The drawbacks are one author, no recent post lists, no meta tags. Is it worth it to move the site off Wordpress. Will it affect my rankings much if I have great content? Does anyone have experience with or opinions on Ghost?

I handle this using the hrefland tag in the

It looks like this for each page of the site (on my site English/Spanish):

Thank you. That is a great answer!