[journeyoftheanimala]

I was looking at the prices of SSLs....WOW....but then I found this site. http://www.completessl.com/complete_ssl.php 49 a year, am I missing something? Maybe it is too late and my eyes are too tired to see something.

[cube3]

haa is that suppose to be expensive or cheap man?

[MarcL]

im pretty sure he means cheap because mine used to be $15 or $30 a month, cant remember...

[E-Helpdesk]

SSL shouldnt be more than $50 a year. Have you asked yoru web hoster? They should have a partnership with an SSL provider.

[Newton]

Hey jota I saw this and thought of you - remember how I told you to get rid of those articles written by other people? Well, it looks like Google punishes that kind of thing:

"

Q: "Why is a duplicate website such a bad idea?"

A: The major search engines are constantly trying to improve the quality of their search engine results in an effort to provide the best quality content for users. When duplicate content is indexed by search engine spiders, valuable time and processing power is wasted. As a result, search engines have blocked sites that used duplicate content from their database, ultimately favouring the site that either had the content first, or I believe, the one site that has the greater online history. In addition, the major search engines have a bad taste after dealing with so much duplicate content created by spammers over the past several years. As a result, posting a duplicate website is an offense that can quite literally blacklist a domain; there are few things the search engine properties dislike more than being gamed by spammers."

" Q: "I need content for my website; can I just copy content from industry journals and benefit from that quality content?"

A: No, aside from the copyright concerns of using content that is not yours, your rankings (if they exist) would suffer because it is highly likely the major search engines would detect the duplicate content. As a result, the page that you create may get flagged as duplicated and it would be ignored at the very least. The page could even devalue your site's overall credibility. Credibility is a critical component of Google's algorithm so sites with less credibility tend to have a harder time staying ('sticking' if you will) in a particular ranking. "

[journeyoftheanimala]

Originally Posted by Newton

Hey jota I saw this and thought of you - remember how I told you to get rid of those articles written by other people? Well, it looks like Google punishes that kind of thing:

"

Q: "Why is a duplicate website such a bad idea?"

A: The major search engines are constantly trying to improve the quality of their search engine results in an effort to provide the best quality content for users. When duplicate content is indexed by search engine spiders, valuable time and processing power is wasted. As a result, search engines have blocked sites that used duplicate content from their database, ultimately favouring the site that either had the content first, or I believe, the one site that has the greater online history. In addition, the major search engines have a bad taste after dealing with so much duplicate content created by spammers over the past several years. As a result, posting a duplicate website is an offense that can quite literally blacklist a domain; there are few things the search engine properties dislike more than being gamed by spammers."

" Q: "I need content for my website; can I just copy content from industry journals and benefit from that quality content?"

A: No, aside from the copyright concerns of using content that is not yours, your rankings (if they exist) would suffer because it is highly likely the major search engines would detect the duplicate content. As a result, the page that you create may get flagged as duplicated and it would be ignored at the very least. The page could even devalue your site's overall credibility. Credibility is a critical component of Google's algorithm so sites with less credibility tend to have a harder time staying ('sticking' if you will) in a particular ranking. "

I would place up to one short paragraph on my site and then link to the off site web page for people to be able to read the rest. I see this not being a bad thing because I have seen basically the same thing done on almost all forums I have ever seen

[pbradish]

What web host do you use? Most of the big ones can bundle an SSL into your hosting package for you at a huge discount rate.

[journeyoftheanimala]

Well I had looked at some SSLs before and I was seeing stuff for like 200+ must have been something special. The host I use does not offer SSL but they tell me I will need to have a dedicated IP number and that will not cost much. So I will be getting that and the SSL before my store goes live.