I'm building my first website what should be mindful of a regards to seo?

Just a couple of points: the first part was clearly a joke, I just told him to be careful. The second part, was "sometimes given on forums". You've taken it to heart and unable to see the real meaning.

A penalty is something manually placed by Google. You don't get a penalty for duplicate content, especially if the domain is now 301ing. Google knows this is happening and their index will eventually update to reflect this. The fact you don't understand this would make me avoid you as an "SEO".

 

I am not here to impress you as a SEO. I am definitely sure that he was having duplicate content issues with a domain he had already redirected but some of the pages were still in Google's index. Plus 301 to a single domain is a common practice but making it to 2 different domains can be tricky!

Anyhow, he's been writing the content for those 2 domains now and he'll get over with it. And i still stand on my point that he was hit by Panda.

 

A penalty is now defined by Google as manual action (i.e. when you receive a notification in Webmaster Tools). Panda, Penguin, etc, are algorithmic (you know about it when rank and traffic drop (for example)). As a result, such algorithmic demotions are much easier to overcome.

He already had issues with the domain he was redirecting [from] and as a result he passed on any "problems", too, such as Panda or Penguin. (I don't disagree that he may have been hit by Panda, just pre-redirect. ;-) :-P).

 

Cool. Thanks for making it clear as i just mixed this whole thing algorithmic changes with penalties. Kind of a confusion of choosing right words since childhood

 

Taking a look. Which bit are you wanting to centre? The top image? Or everything?

 

I'll take it this way. Don't blindly follow other people but, still be willing to seek advice from those who are experienced. My approach was going to be to strike a balance between those two things.

 

Right now I'm just trying to center of the logo and the menu bar. But I think that I might in the future what to center everything that way I can have a gradient background draping vertically down the left and right sides of the webpage.I'm not really sure yet what I want to do I'm just trying to take it in small pieces.

 

Well, your HTML file uses some CSS and JS files that I don't have, so the attached file might not look right. You'll see the CSS changes in the head (and an additional class I added for the ul).

 

What type of website are you starting? SEO can be very complex for newbies. My suggestion is, if you don't have an interest in learning SEO, you may want to outsource that part of your operation.

 

Thank you, your code worked beautifully. I am trying to learn so, could you explain to me why your methodology worked and mine did not?Thanks again I really appreciate it.

 

I'm building a basic website for a local pediatric therapy company. I do want to learn search engine optimization. Outsourcing it might be the best idea but I volunteered to try and build the website for free.

 

If you are building a website first time. You are create a account in google analytics. After you are put a script code to your head section. So google analytics show your traffic on google how much traffic you get on google for your website. After you are create a meta tag description on head section. you can also create a robot.exe file which you doesn't read page on google robots. After you are working Offpage seo to ranking your website on google.

 

Firstly, your image wasn't within the div you use for centring. After that, I used "text-align: center;" to centralise everything. However, ul/li are special and the alignment needs changing for points by applying some CSS to "ul". I just set it to display "inline" with the other content, but also to behave as a "block" (so the points are all aligned correctly), so I used "display: inline-block;" rather than "display: inline;". (The default is "display: block;" for this HTML element.)

Let me know if there's anything you don't understand.

You're doing the right thing, mate. Outsourcing can lead to trouble, whether your budget is big or small. I'm not saying it's a bad idea altogether, but once you understand SEO better, you will only outsource for sites you don't care too much about or outsource individual tasks while still managing the overall operation (at least that way you reduce chances of trouble).

 

First of Onpage seo keep in mind when developing a website and develop site user friendly when. Start off page SEO after completely done onpage.

 

I implemented the changes in code that you suggested. Everything seems to be centered perfectly. Previously, I had a menubar that change colors when you hovered over it but, I had to create a new menubar.. Since we made the changes to center the objects I am not able to find any CSS rule that has to do with hovering over the main menubar. The only options I can find have to do with hovering over the submenus. What did I do wrong or what should I be looking for?

 

Nevermind! I guess my brain was just not working.

 

First of all let me emphasize what a search engine friendly website means. It means that all the elements of a website should be visible to the search engine, proper use of h tags is very important. Content is king, yes that is through your website should have a unique and fresh content and also has sense.