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    Www and non www / duplicate content / redirects / www resolve issue

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    • donnieath
      donnieath last edited by

      I am not getting docked for these specific errors, but I am getting docked for 1 page has a WWW resolve issue and 1 wrong URL in the sitemap... (SEM Rush) but when I use moz, it's not showing any issues.

      So I have these things set up so far:

      • In .htaccess i have a command that removes the www.
      • 301 redirect from www version to the non www (homepage)
      • canonical on index.html pointing to non www version, I also set up a canonical tag for each page on the site
      • search console with non www, www, https www, https non www all set to non www preference.

      Also, when I fetch the www version in google search console it says it's being 301 redirected to non www version which is basically what I want.Is there anything that i'm missing? These errors on SEM Rush are giving me anxiety lol.

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      • Maslavista
        Maslavista @donnieath last edited by

        How many pages have your website?

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        • tawnycase
          tawnycase last edited by

          Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.

          Unfortunately, I don't know that I'm actually equipped to answer your question. I can speak to how Moz's tools determine duplicate content, but I don't know how you'd go about implementing solutions for errors you're seeing with SEMrush. Sorry about that!

          Hopefully one of our wonderful community members will have more insight than I do. Sorry I couldn't be more help!

          If you do have questions about Moz's tools, feel free to give us a shout at help@moz.com and we'll see what we can do. 🙂

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          • donnieath
            donnieath @Maslavista last edited by

            That is the jyst of it, I removed some of the 301's when I pasted it here, just because it was long.

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            • donnieath
              donnieath @Maslavista last edited by

              Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews

              RewriteEngine on
              RewriteBase /

              Remove "www."

              RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.)$ [NC]
              RewriteRule ^(.
              )$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

              RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
              RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

              Remove ".html"

              RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
              RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

              Redirect "home" and "index" to document root

              > Here, the expression (home|index) means "home or index"

              RewriteRule ^(home|index)/?$ / [R=301,L]

              Redirect any requests for html files to index

              RewriteRule ^(.+).html index.php?page=$1 [L]

              Rewrite any request for subdirectories to index

              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
              RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

              EXPIRES CACHING

              <ifmodule mod_expires.c="">ExpiresActive On
              ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 week"
              ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 week"
              ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 week"
              ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 week"
              ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
              ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
              ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
              ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
              ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
              ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"</ifmodule>

              EXPIRES CACHING

              <ifmodule mod_expires.c="">ExpiresActive On
              ExpiresDefault "access plus 7200 seconds"
              ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 2592000 seconds"
              ExpiresByType application/javascript A2592000
              ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 2592000 seconds"</ifmodule>

              6 month for most static assets

              <ifmodule mod_headers.c=""><filesmatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|gs|ico)$"="">Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1576800, public"</filesmatch></ifmodule>

              Cache-Control Headers

              <ifmodule mod_headers.c=""><filesmatch ".(js)$"="">Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, private"</filesmatch></ifmodule>

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              • donnieath
                donnieath @Maslavista last edited by

                I'll send you a pm...

                -----EDIT nevermind the formatting was really bad over pm.

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                • Maslavista
                  Maslavista last edited by

                  Can you post your .htaccess rules here?

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