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Hope this helps,
Tom
Hi
**Make them for the user, not Google **
- Use Meta Title as H1 tag on each page? No H1 & title need to Consistent but not identical.
The main thing is for you to test and see what works for your site and your rankings and users.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag
https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/title-tags/
_Use Meta Description on Content section ( Same as meta description ) _**Not really a summary for users Title Tag & Meta Description remember only shown in SERPS & H1 are only on only on page **
https://i.imgur.com/gl0uGY6.png
The function of a meta description for your page is simple: its main purpose is to get the visitor from Google to click your link. In other words, meta descriptions are there to generate clickthroughs from search engines.
Search engines say there is no direct ranking benefit from the meta description – they don’t use it in their ranking algorithm. There is an indirect benefit, though: Google uses click-through-rate (CTR) as a way of determining whether you’re a good result.
Hope that helps,
Tom
In **apache **"permanent" "RedirectPermanent" is the same as "Redirect 301"
By default, the "Redirect" directive establishes a 302, or temporary, redirect.
If you would like to create a permanent redirect, you can do so in either of the following two ways:
- Redirect 301 /oldlocation http://www.domain2.com/newlocation
- Redirect permanent /oldlocation http://www.domain2.com/newlocation
https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/
If no <var>status</var> argument is given, the redirect will be "temporary" (HTTP status 302). This indicates to the client that the resource has moved temporarily. The <var>status</var> argument can be used to return other HTTP status codes:
<dl> "permanent" & "Redirect 301"</dl>
<dl>
<dd>Returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that the resource has moved permanently.</dd>
"temp"</dl>
<dl>
<dt>Returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the default.</dt>
"seeother"</dl>
<dl>
<dd>Returns a "See Other" status (303) indicating that the resource has been replaced.</dd>
"gone"</dl>
<dl>
<dd>Returns a "Gone" status (410) indicating that the resource has been permanently removed. When this status is used the <var>URL</var> argument should be omitted.</dd>
</dl>
**https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_alias.html **
To 301 Redirect a Page:
RedirectPermanent /old-file.html http://www.domain.com/new-file.html
To 301 Redirect a Page:
Redirect 301 /old-file.html http://www.domain.com/new-file.html
https://i.imgur.com/PTEj5ZF.png
https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/
Permanent redirect from pageA_.html_ to pageB.html.
.htaccess:
301 Redirect URLs.
Redirect 301 /pageA.html http://www.site.com/pageB.html
https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/page-to-page/
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 /pageA.html /pageB.html</ifmodule>
https://www.htaccessredirect.net/
//Rewrite to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com[nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [r=301,nc]//301 Redirect Old File
Redirect 301 /pageA.html /pageB.html
You asked about Regex
https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204643270/using-htaccess-rewrite-rules
.htaccess
Regular expressions
Rewrite rules often contain symbols that make a regular expression (regex). This is how the server knows exactly how you want your URL changed. However, regular expressions can be tricky to decipher at first glance. Here's some common elements you will see in your rewrite rules, along with some specific examples.
See for more regex
Hope this helps
Tom
I agree with Maritn,
Most small to average websites are safe to assume that Google Analytics is 6 to 8 hours behind.
If needed Debug
https://www.analyticsmania.com/post/common-google-tag-manager-mistakes/
Hope this helps (sorry in a rush)All the best,Tom
Hi Suparno,
Yes you can by using the /x/ page to list Languages that you offer you can utilize it to tell users what language's you offer. But keep your site the way it is (for the USA) so it would look like this. One lang page & then making "/" the US site/folder.
Does that make sense?
Let me know if you have any other questions.
all the best,
Tom
Hi Suparno,
Happy to be of help.
PS.
I know one thing that has made a very big difference for me. If you are going to use one domain to rank all over the world using subfolders. By matching a server near users with a web-based load balancer like (GSLB) global server load balancer you can keep users very happy.
I have seen the best from Fastly & Incapsula
All the best,
Tom
"So, the question is how do we tackle that .../ex-us home page, which will be an almost duplicate of example.com"
Make the x page /x & tell people that what types of English you have with it.
Then on /en-us/ use the USA based content you have now you can even skip the
hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/
&
Use
I would use
The bottom four to start going after the rest of the world if you add hreflang the page is not thought of a duplicate page.
Try making tags using https://www.sistrix.com/hreflang-guide/hreflang-generator/
Wach this video by Google https://youtu.be/8ce9jv91beQ
This tell's you everything https://www.sistrix.com/hreflang-guide/ about duplicate content & hreflang
Hope this helps,
Tom
Honestly, the way you set up a 301 is much more dependent on the server like Apache and Nginx then it is on a CMS
if you are looking for one I would recommend using WordPress or Drupal for a CMS If you're thinking of switching WordPress is much more user-friendly slightly quicker and many many more developers are available to help with it.
Tom
Also James telling somebody to add HSTS with preload is extremely dangerous unless they know without a doubt that their redirects are set up properly it will keep them in the browser improperly for up to six months your advice is to simply add H STS with preload and it was abundantly clear that this person knew that the four URLs were what was to choose from. I included the completed 2 to 5-page references for a complete package.
"After a period of time - and rankings seem ok . - you can implement oscp stapling and some server wide HSTS. and submit to teh preload directory. "
For the record do not employ HSTS with preload until you have determined that all your subdomains if you have any, are going to have HSTS in addition that all your redirects are completely perfect and the way you want them. I would check using a tool called screaming frog Seo spider or my personal favorite deepcrawl.com
**Your rankings could be just fine and it would not necessarily show that you have a redirect chain permanently embedded for six months in your set up in less you check it first. **
"OCSP stapling is an alternative approach to the original Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for determining whether an SSL certificate is valid or not. It does this by allowing the web server to query the OCSP responder (a certificate authority’s server dat listens for OCSP requests) and then caches the response__. This allows the web server to check the validity of its certificates and eliminates the need for the client to contact the certificate authority"
OCSP can and should be implemented at the time of employing the SSL certificate
Tom
James,
I don't want to be rude saying this but it sounds like you're telling me the basics of search engine optimization redirects and telling me I did not include it in my response?
I appreciate you pointing out how you read my comment and definitely appreciate your feedback. But if it came across as me telling them to create infinite redirects I am asking you to please read it again. don't you believe I read the whole post because I'm not talking about the proper protocol?
HTTPS is known as TLS / SSL or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
A lot of the terminology you're using is not relevant to the question because once again I provided with them with the code to actually implement this check it for problems and fix what was broken I don't know exactly why you chose to tell me I did it incorrectly but if you would like to outline exactly how I did this incorrectly I would be more than happy to read it as I always open to constructive conservativism
"http://www
http_://_
https://www
https://
What is the best way to redirect without losing SEO positions?"
**My answer was a use www. with HTTPS **
**You need to redirect you're an entire site to whatever canonical your considering use the www. it might be smart to just add the HTTPS://www. and continue with the www. **
Set you're preferred domain (www or non-www) as I do not have their URL I cannot look at rather or not they have a 301 redirects chained as you seem to be implying? But don't worry I took care of it at the end I said please check all this with this tool https://varvy.com/tools/redirects/ that would show any redirects that were forming a redirect chain.
James, I apologize if it was hard for you to follow I thoroughly believe that I gave them everything that they needed to complete the project and I am always here to answer questions.
If you are asked by anybody that present you with four URLs which one they should go with and how they should go about redirecting it I would hope it you would not write what you had written to me.
I am also the only one who gave third-party references and tools to accomplish this task.
I wish you the very best,
Tom
Sliders If you're talking about the main homepage is generally very negative compared to having a direct message. People want to understand what you do the instant that they come on your website. If your website sells mustache supplies and it takes the person more than five seconds to go through all the slides in order to understand what you do you may have just given up a sale.
See:
https://yoast.com/opinion-on-sliders/ & http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
In addition, this is true for non-e-commerce sites basically all websites. Unless you are using it in some sort of a gallery format I would stay far away from a slider. They slow the site speed down by having to load another plug-in which requires JavaScript to load prior to being shown to the end-user a huge negative. On mobile devices, it's almost impossible for people to control them. They are antiquated and to the owner of the site they may look great but you have to think about everyone that's coming to your website not just yourself (we are all slightly biased to our own sites).
"Sliders suck and should be banned from your website" Michiel Heijmans of Yoast.com
"Use a static image instead"
“In A/B tests, sliders tend to lose. In fact, one of the easiest ways to grow a page’s conversion rate is to remove the slider, and to replace it with a static image. If you want to be really lazy, you can just test the slider against the static version of each of the slider’s options. The static version usually wins.”
Citing Karl Blanks, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Conversion Rate Experts
"1% clicked a feature. Of those, 89% were the first position. 1% of clicks for the most significant object on the home page?"
"nd.edu stats by @erunyon"
https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/slider-revolution-plugin-critical-vulnerability-being-exploited.html
The only bad things about revolution slider are its very heavy plug-in, it's the most exploited plug-in in the world, in fact, I believe the Panama papers were a result of a WordPress site with revolution slider not joking. also, sliders generally do not do as well as static images.
"Almost 10% of the compromised WordPress sites that we analyzed had a vulnerable version of RevSlider. When you combine RevSlider, Gravity Forms, and TimThumb, they account for 25% of the total compromised WordPress sites."
cite: https://sucuri.net/website-security/website-hacked-report
RevSlider never reached TimThumb’s scale, but it still affects websites months after it was first disclosed. The biggest challenge RevSlider faces is that it’s embedded within Themes and Frameworks and some website owners are unaware they have it installed until it TEMP has been used to adversely affect them via a compromise.
With this security feature, Sucuri is able to proactively protect your website
within minutes of a security event, like a Zero Day, being released to the
world. Example of dis at work include the recent Bash vulnerabilities, and
many of the software vulnerabilities mentioned above (me.e., RevSlider,
Mailpoet, etc…).
Cite: https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-cloudproxy-waf/
I would look at https://soliloquywp.com/ See: http://www.wpbeginner.com/best-wordpress-slider/
I hope this helps,
Tom
It does not matter if you have a CMS or not
You need to redirect your entire site to whatever canonical you want considering use the www. it might be smart to just add the HTTPS and continue with the www. or
USE:
https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/ to make the code needed or use the code below to force HTTPS
HTTP to HTTPS
If your web server is running Apache, you can easily redirect all of your HTTP traffic to HTTPS by adding the following code to your .htaccess is the recommended method for redirecting a site running on Apache.
<code class=" language-php">RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]</code>
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]</ifmodule>
If your web server is running Nginx, you can easily redirect all of you're HTTP traffic to HTTPS by adding the following code to you're Nginx config file. This is the recommended method for redirecting servers running on Nginx
<code class=" language-php">server { listen 80; server_name domain.com www.domain.com; return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri; }</code>
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231
No-WWW
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$
RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>
WWW
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>
one of the best guides on how to add HTTPS
https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http-to-https/
https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/redirect-http-to-https/
https://www.sslshopper.com/apache-redirect-http-to-https.html
The following will differ from platform to platform. In this example, we will show you how to update your URL. We recommend using a free tool from Interconnect IT called “Database search and replace script in php.” You could run update queries yourself, but there are a lot of tables and metadata fields you will probably miss unless you have an exact list.
We recommend doing dis on a dev server and moving it back, or at least backing up you're database first to be safe as this script does grab your local database credentials. Simply drop their program into the root of your site via FTP. Then browse to it in your browser. (We named our folder “search-replace-db”)
You can tan insert what you want to replace. Make sure you enter all of the formats you have mixed and matched over the years such as:
http://mydomain.com to https://mydomain.com
http://www.mydomain.com to https://www.mydomain.com
Check it with
<cite class="_Rm">https://varvy.com/tools/redirects/</cite>
Hope this helps,
Tom
Hi Jeff,
I agree with what David said. I think the only way to do it you're talking about is with Hreflang ideally you would use that technology to accomplish dealing the same language (En) but different geographies you will need to put pricing everything in the native countries correct format. Great Britain and Canada spell color differently than the United States take that into account as well as it's extremely important.
Take a look at this tool and if you can create the country you wish to specify and keep English as the language which you can and you can create hreflang tags ( I left a good amount of references below to get you started)
now keep in mind this is nowhere near perfect but this would be something you could easily do remember English is written differently all over the world and you want to take advantage of that when you write the content for Great Britain or for Canada.
or
Usage: The markup for the part of the HTML document:
example.com/en-gb: For English-speaking users in the UK
example.com/en-us: For English-speaking users in the USA
example.com/en-au: For English-speaking users in Australia
example.com/: The homepage may, for example, display a list of countries to chose from and is defined as the default page for users worldwide
https://moz.com/community/q/can-you-target-the-same-site-with-multiple-regional-hreflang-entries
https://www.semrush.com/blog/7-common-hreflang-mistakes-and-how-to-fix-them/
Hope that helps,
Tom
I would have to say https://reputationstacker.com works the hardest and does the best job of any of them. I've tried them all and honestly, you won't get service like this anywhere else. in addition they keep adding on new tools and know that you can get grandfathered in on a product that is about to launch try them I think you'll really like them.
Hope that helps,
Tom
Nice happy to hear that do you work with Greg Reindel? He is a good friend I looked at your IP that is why I ask?
Tom
I agree with David
Hey is your dev Greg Reindel? If so you can call me for help PM me here for my info.
Thomas Zickell
the report was run prior canonical directives
Anytime remember to noindex your robots.txt
https://yoast.com/x-robots-tag-play/
There are cases in which the robots.txt file itself might show up in search results. By using an alteration of the previous method, you can prevent this from happening to your website:
<filesmatch "robots.txt"="">Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"</filesmatch>
**And in Nginx:**
location = robots.txt { add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex"; }
I think you need to make an https robots.txt file if you are running https if running https
https://moz.com/blog/xml-sitemaps
`User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php` Sitemap: https://domain.com/index-sitemap.xml
(that is a https site map)
can you send the sitemap URL or run it though deepcrawl
Hope this helps?
Did you make a new robots.txt file?
You know what I don't know if this is something you would like to do or not considering your a custom home builder and I just finished up a custom home I purchased in New Hampshire I have a lot of respect for your craft.
I think you can get that information at a very low price and also give your site a little bit more appeal to end-users if you use walkscore.com you can get data if you think it would benefit your site. If not I would simply leave the pricing off of the site entirely I'm assuming that because everything is a custom home everyone is a different price and they are purchasing the land on their own already. I am certain that you advise them. So you really want to show off what you have accomplished with these past homes that you've built. I would definitely keep the photographs and add video if you do not have them. I know when I look at homes I like to be able to see as much as possible and if I'm looking for a builder I want to see a lot of trust signals and past work.
https://www.walkscore.com/professional/research.php
https://www.walkscore.com/professional/
I would also definitely crawl with Moz & deepcrawl you want to make certain that if somebody linked to one of your homes for sale that you keep that link equity as well.
I would definitely make sure that they are visible and show off what you are proud of.
Hope that was of help,
Tom
Wow, I got it
your 301 redirecting a ton of URLs back to the homepage.
https://cryptoreport.websecurity.symantec.com/checker/
This server cannot be scanned for these vulnerabilities:HeartbleedServer scan unsuccessful. <a>See possible causes.</a>Poodle (TLS)Server scan unsuccessful. See possible causes.BEASTThis server is vulnerable to a BEAST attack. <a>More information.</a>
I am sorry I said your IP was Network solutions when it was 1&1 I still strongly recommend changing hosting companies even though I am German and so is 1&1
The SSL certificate used to load resources from https://www.hkqpc.com will be distrusted in M70. Once distrusted, users will be prevented from loading these resources. See https://g.co/chrome/symantecpkicerts for more information.
Look: https://cl.ly/pCY5
Look: https://cl.ly/pAKa
symantec SSL certificates are now owned by DigiCert
<big>https://www.digicert.com/help/</big>
https://www.dareboost.com/en/report/5a70b33e0cf28f017576367f
The Set-Cookie HTTP header can be configured with your Apache server. Make sure that the mod_headers module is enabled. Then, you can specify the header (in your .htaccess file, for example). Here is an example: <ifmodule mod_headers.c=""># only for Apache > 2.2.4: Header edit Set-Cookie ^(.*)$ $1;HttpOnly;Secure # lower versions: Header set Set-Cookie HttpOnly;Secure</ifmodule>
Double forward slashes after verdicts the same page without double forward slashes you need to add rel canonical tags zero canonical's on any page whatsoever.
The URLs above need a rel=canonical tag I have created an example below for you. For the page without the double forward slashes, and this tells Google the one you'd prefer to have indexed besides it keeps the query string pages and junk pages out of Google's index. Please see the resources below and add them to your website because I do not know what type of CMS you're using I cannot recommend a plug-in to do it but if you were using something like WordPress it would be automatically done by something like Yoast WordPress SEO for the site that you are using it may be a wise move to move to something like WordPress it is a solid platform for a site that size and makes things a lot easier for you to implement change across the entire site quickly.
You need to add a canonical
You have
An unknown error occurred while scanning for the Heartbleed Bug.
Right now I cannot get that site to load on my browser, and when I used https://tools.pingdom.com it was unable to load as well you could be having some serious server problems, and that could be causing the issue although I was getting it to run through screaming frog which is surprising.
This is a zip file of your screen frog results this will show if there are any no index pages which I found none of it looks to me like you have a server issue. Zip file: http://bseo.io/BXYpZh
I checked your site for malware using https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.hkqlaw.com/ ( please understand this only check the homepage and a handful of others) and found none though when I checked your IP address I noticed a lot of ransomware information tied directly to your IP
https://ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch/ip/205.178.189.131/
Here is a large screenshot of when I tried to browse your website: https://i.imgur.com/OzcLhbx.png
Here is Pingdom ( remember to test on something outside of your local computer because you have caching and other things that could give you incorrect results.)
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/bd6d52/https://www.hkqlaw.com/
in my experience network solutions, hosting is terrible I would strongly suggest doing two things.
Get a better hosting company for your site.
A good host that is not too expensive is and also managed is liquid Web, cloudways, rack space, pairnic, you can also build out your own system on non-managed hosting like Linode, digital ocean, AWS, Google cloud, Microsoft Azure if you want a high-quality, inexpensive manage host that offers more than one back and like the ones I've listed above https://www.cloudways.com/en/ will host anything and manage it, and you can use the backends provided before this. If you want what I think is the best and price is not a big deal considering you're not running WordPress https://armor.com is my preferred hosting company. Otherwise, cloudways or liquid Web would be where I would host your site.
Considering you already have an IP address attached to ransomware and you're using hosting company that will not be beneficial to you in security terms. I would add a web application firewall/reverse proxy you can do that with https://sucuri.net/website-firewall/ https://incapsula.com https://fastly.com and if you want most basic and least secure but better than what you have https://cloudflare.com
At the very least put Cloudflare on their but what I'm seeing is a severe problem coming from your web host and knowing that hosting company I would strongly advise you to move to a better host.
I hope this was of help,
Thomas
I think that you should link to them from the new homes as long as the relevant. So if I live at 1313 Mockingbird Ln. and 1210 Mockingbird Ln. comes up as a sold home I want to know what it sold for I want to be able to get an idea of what people are paying in the neighborhood. So I would not make them into orphans I would have them linked from the new homes and when the new home sell keep the link so they're not orphans they're just helpful data.
I created a video for you it's narrated hopefully this is helpful.
Here is an example of a home that is no longer for sale but is still linked to.
I hope that helps,
Thomas
I would keep the homes on the site and allow them to be indexed however once they have been sold I would put them into a new category where the buyer does not have the opportunity to see them unless they try to.
If you make sure the site you ask is designed not to show them Two people looking to purchase a house that is still for sale look at companies like Zillow you can see that they keep every listing online and indexed the reason that they do that is the place no longer for sale in a very prominent part of the page including using colors to show what is on the market and what is no longer on the market.
You will have to get with your developer and figure out a way to essentially move them below the listings based on pricing or location however you should keep the URLs indexed to get as much juice as possible.
Sincerely,
Tom
If you are embedding the Audio content through an I-frame or Oembed as long as it's not on the other domain as well it will not be duplicate content.
What I would be more worried about is if you have a large number of backlinks pointing to the old domain and you do not want to redirect to the new domain but you want to use the new domain for SEO purposes that will most likely Take a long time before the new domain starts to rank and you will have to do a lot of optimization to the new domain to allow it to rank.
Use a tool like copyscape.com to check if you have duplicate content it will tell you pretty clearly whether or not you are still sharing duplicate content between the two domains.
I hope this is of help,
Tom
No, you do not need to change or plug-in what is happening is Webmaster tools is telling you that you have no index or no follow were robots xTag somewhere on your URLs inside your sitemap.
Run your site through Moz, screaming frog Seo spider or deepcrawl and look for no indexed URLs.
webmaster tools/search console is telling you that you have no index URLs inside of your XML sitemap not that you robots.txt is blocking it. This would be set in the Yoast plugin. one way to correct it is to look for noindex URLs & filter them inside Yoast so they are not being presented to the crawlers.
If you would like you can turn off the sitemap on Yoast and turn it back on if that does not work I recommend completely removing the plug-in and reinstalling it
Can you send a screenshot of what you're seeing?
When you see it in Google Webmaster tools are you talking about the XML sitemap itself mean no indexed because all XML sitemaps are no indexed.
Please add this to your robots.txt
`User-agent:* Disallow:/wp-admin/ Allow:/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php` Sitemap: http://www.website.com/sitemap_index.xml
I hope this is of help,
Tom
Hi Jonny,
Are you talking about using small differences in content to post two different Domains?
If so why not use Hreflang? granted it doesn't make sense for every website but if they're essentially the same site which I don't know if they are not this would help you quite a bit. Allowing you to post the content English let's say on one and German on another is that what you're trying to do?
When you say backlinks are localized are you talking about having a different TLD or you talking about the same domain and TLD?
if you're talking about the same domain and doing something like example.com/Kentucky/shoes and you want to have content on another domain with something like example.com/Annapolis/shoes you would most likely find out that Google would pick one of the two and rank them.
However, if they are outside of the United States please look into using Hreflang
if you could give me some examples of the URLs and just put example instead of the actual domain or example 1 example 2 if their different domains I can give you a much clearer answer.
Also if you could discuss the content differences that you used to localize the content that would make things a lot clearer as well.
Hope this was of help to you,
Thomas
This first method is a complete guess if it just went down you might have a chance of grabbing the rest on google of it by typing in sight:thedomain.tld in google I don’t know how old this thing is so it’s a possibility.
Try http://archive.is Or time-travel.mementoweb.org
http://archive.is/20130504233657/http://moz.com/
You can find just links or html useing
http://www.internetfrog.com/mywebsite/archive/ with archive.org
Try when in The way back machine take the code and use Regex to grab the URLs
Use this inside of archive.org.
https://regex101.com/library/V36Bah
https://regex101.com/r/V36Bah/1
https://regex101.com/r/fbX1LZ/1
http://network.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic/12459-regex-explained-match-extract-urls/
https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex
Use google search inur:thedomain.tld any variation that you think will get your URLs
you never know what you might find.
The site Get data from any link tools like Majestic, Ahrefs, Moz OSE that will give you a outline of site structure if it was Crawl and I had a lot of back links you can get a lot of URLs that way.
One thing you have to do with the way back machine or archive.org. This simply use whatever page they have and click on that look for the site special by going to the homepage and trying to save that . So you can grab the URLs out of the navigation outside of that and doing Google searches for anything depending on how old it is it may still be there I don’t know how long ago this occur? But Google is not going to be a bad place to look. After that going to Webmaster to look for a xml site map or anything you could have useed To crawl the website prior to it coming down. If you know ran a crawl via Moz, screamingfrog or Deep Crawl you’re in luck. call the hosting if you own the domain
Are you the new owner? If you are there might be a small chance the hosting company or the old owner had a back up of the entire site never know but you need to ask.
I wish you all the very best
sorry about the formatting I’m on my cell phone
tom
Hi Ruth,
I am more than happy to help. Please have a look at these resources if you believe the migration has not been done correctly.
Please have a look at these resources I think they will be immensely helpful. Please remember the Google doc referenced in number one is available in line 3 as well as In the instructions anchor text on line 2.
Please let me know if I can be of any help,
Thomas
I am still trying to decipher rather you're talking about them pointing to your site that resolves in these codes or if when you query the URLs or domains they are giving you these codes: 401, 403, 410, 500, 502, 503I still think that I need to see a little bit more information however if you are cleaning house and you have backlinks that resolve to dead domains and 404's etc. Please remember anyone can make these domains and URLs live anytime. so it is best to err on the side of caution and disavow spamming backlinks. whether or not they're coming from dead / 500 backlink or hitting your site with an unauthorized 401.( I have placed what the codes mean below in hopes that it may be of some help to you)Successful 2xx
Redirection 3xx
Client Error 4xx
Server Error 5xx
I hope this helps,Tom
Hey, guys, this is a very old post but because it might be useful to people in the future I thought I would update the URL that Ryan did a. great job posting but no longer goes to the correct place. No one can control what I third-party site changes there URL structure to rite?
you can use this plug-in called
?replytocom= replaced with #replytocom=
The only way to know would be to look at the links and your domai ( at the very least understand the type of Business you’re domains is)
If you’re willing to a put the here that would be awesome if not you can send them to me private message
If not I can place a URL that works for only one click and you add the URLs that way?
all the best,
tom
Hi Justin,
Happy I could be of help. My personal favorite crawling tool is https://www.deepcrawl.com/ I know you can try it for free right now.
Screaming Frog is also an excellent tool I personally prefer the interface and capabilities on deepcrawl.
Monitoring backlinks via Ahrefs is a very comprehensive and good way to detect spam. Majestic is really the only one with the same reach but the most important is Google search console/Google Webmaster tools which is surprisingly very close to Moz OSE.
Ahrefs will definitely do the job.
One tool I should have also included is https://www.distilnetworks.com/ ( unparalleled bot detection) & https://www.stackpath.com/ a new WAF that starts at only $19 and offers MaxCDN's enterprise features like edge rules its price will probably go up but right now it's a steal.
I agree reading the disavow using Ahrefs is never a bad way to go however I've always submitted using Webmaster tools.
All the best,
Tom
<scripttype="application ld+json"="">{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"LocalBusiness","name":"Heritage Custom Signs & Displays","image":"https://i.imgur.com/NIcoDG6.jpg","@id":"https://www.heritagecustomsigns.com/","url":"https://www.heritagecustomsigns.com","telephone":"1-704-655-1465","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"2731 Interstate Street","addressLocality":"Charlotte","addressRegion":"NC","postalCode":"28208","addressCountry":"US"},"geo":{"@type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":35.23783,"longitude":-80.909208},"openingHoursSpecification":[{"@type":"OpeningHoursSpecification","dayOfWeek":["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday"],"opens":"07:00","closes":"19:00"},{"@type":"OpeningHoursSpecification","dayOfWeek":"Friday","opens":"07:00","closes":"17:00"}],"sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/heritage.printing/","https://twitter.com/heritagedc/","https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4Wi6H6Ks9BoEKahhEb8hw"]}</scripttype="application>
Always use Google's easy tool to check if it's correct :
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/
Droplr https://d.pr/n/kcCofm of code you need to add your logo & price range but you need to swap that out with a copy of the image uploaded to your server you can see where I added a Droplr URL just create a JPEG or PNG of your logo please replace with URL from your server the logo is here too https://i.imgur.com/NIcoDG6.jpg
I added the all your information above, your hours, social media URLs, longitude latitude for geo-coordinates, everything but the pricing which is explained below. you can add by simply putting this in "priceRange": "$$",
GeoCoordinates","latitude":35.23783,"longitude":-80.909208}
time convert Your hours 7:00 am = 7:00 7:00 PM = 19:00 & 5:00 PM = 17:00
time: http://projets.pavie.info/yohours/?oh=Mo-Th 07:00-19:00; Fr 07:00-17:00; Jan 16 off
** why you need to add image and price range **
Hope this help's
the example below would not move very easily so that's going to be below my signature.
I hope this helps,
Tom
Pricing
to add price range ad price and/or the number of $ from 1 to 3 very pricey $$$ the number of dollar signs indicates your price vs. the competition "priceRange": "$$", Like below.
Hey Kevin,
Can you show me code your using for local schema?
if you are using Microdata it is most likely something modifying the code and making the white space.
One thing you can do is switch to JSON-LD it is faster and much easier to deploy. You can also use this tool to re-create your schema and check it with Google Webmaster tools in either format.
https://technicalseo.com/seo-tools/schema-markup-generator/ It even validates with Google.
I hope this helps,
Tom
PS Droper rocks I wish everyone used it.
Hi Ruth,
Paul brought up a very good point.
If using Apache and it sounds like you are you can force the HTTP to HTTPS redirect using
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]</ifmodule>
See this for more https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/https-vs-http/
301 Redirects are in place verify that by using a tool like this one. you can drop all the URLs you want to check in here. https://httpstatus.io/
Then make sure any HTTP is a 301 and any HTTPS is a 200
Then run a search and replace
http://mydomain.com to https://mydomain.comhttp://www.mydomain.com to https://www.mydomain.comIf you are running a WordPress website this is a very effective plug-in ( and free if you type the name into wordpress.org's plugin repo)
https://bettersearchreplace.com/ or https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Your canonical tags (unless very good reason like third-party content) should be self-referencing meaning add canonical's to the https:// urls not the http:// URLs like below. A good example is what you see below
Moz will tell you as will https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/redirect-checker/ & https://deepcrawl.com will easily find any of the problems. some references below for rel-canonical tags
https://moz.com/blog/rel-canonical
https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/
Last but not least here is a wonderful tutorial that goes over migrating from http to https
https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http-to-https/
I hope this was of help,
Tom
Do a search & replace on your site then recheck it.
search for HTTP url's & replace with https URL's
I too have seen many clients, unfortunately.
They are targeted by competitors (most likely) sending both fake links for instance in one case a client has a travel site many of the backlinks that were clearly targeted to hurt the site, for instance, the competition / spammers would use the name of an authoritative travel site all they would do is change the TLD so example.com becomes example.co, even though they were tracking their backlinks they were simply looking at the URLs, not the authority of the URL or domain sadly, this is spam, was not detected immediately by the client until they were hit with a manual penalty.
That is when I was brought on and ran a check using Link Research Tools, Ahrefs, Majestic & Moz OSE. Checking for hacks sitecheck.sucuri.net is great & https://sucuri.net/website-security-platform/ to clean and protect.
The worse thing in their case they were not getting a lot of the clear spam that as Joe states above Google does not think anybody is crazy enough to include help their site. mainly Viagra/pornography URLs which I agree with him take Google devalues quickly however you should disavow them. in my experience, Viagra-style spam attacks are the work of a combination of both competitors & black hat SEO spam/hacks in the form of Link injection on hack's, database hack's, content injections and BlackHat SEO that spread the pornography URLs. Like if you look Fiverr at https://www.fiverr.com/gopo2k/provide-you-1-unregistered-domain-for-pbn-with-link-from-nytimes
In cases where the site is seemingly hit over and over again or use a tool like deepcrawl.com or screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider and find out that your database is full of URLs that have been created to spread for promote the spammers site. I always suggest using a web application firewall incapsula.com or sucuri.net ( CloudFare is really not as good until you hit the Pro plan)
if you're on WordPress you can also save money by having a faster site on a managed wordpress host monitor and you will not have to pay to the fix hacks.
Hope this helps,
Tom
PS the uppercase is not going to be different from the lowercase as google loo at them the same way
All the big guys use co-op like geico extr.
When used in the correct context it’s mor about looking g to your customers
i see it spelled like “ co-op
google knows it’s the same thing when used in sentence or a site about Insurance
you can you what the correct name is
hope I was of help,
Tom
Hi Kristin,
I have left a pretty detailed message in private messages I hope that is helpful please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Respectfully,
Thomas
First off I am extremely sorry to hear that you're the victim of negative SEO it is unbelievably frustrating and needs to be dealt with in a very methodical manner.
I do not believe the disavowed tool is what's hurting you. It much more likely there is still something in your site that is allowing this hack to continue no matter what you have to do monitor the site make sure it is not carrying any malware.
Did you have a backup of the site? After the the with a spam hack?
The fact that the attack was detected by Google and you had a manual penalty is extremely unfortunate.
Because most businesses are obviously smart enough not to direct pornography and other spam URLs to their site many times Google must reevaluate the site taking into consideration that this happened and no one was there to catch it.
I literally got done with a disavowal on a site that had been penalized manually and it surprisingly went up very quickly in the rankings. Once the bad URLs were deleted. I have to stress in this case bad back links had almost no authority.
I honestly feel that you are getting a lot of juice from the bad back links and by disavowing them something you had to do obviously you have lost the juice the site had before.
Was this a content injection? is that why you're saying now deleted spam content or inappropriate adult? The reason I ask is if the person did a content injection wrote over your existing content and you deleted it that would do a real lot of damage.
I would recommend doing link disavows I know that does not sound fun. What are you planning to do about the 1-2000 more how many more are accumulating every day?
I would honestly need to know a lot more about your site to tell you the best step forward but one thing I can tell you is you need to figure out if you are deleting content that had regular links to it and are destroying website because somebody did a content injection and wrote over content that was already on your website.
Let me know if you're willing to share your domain with me via private message or hear I would be happy to take a look without understanding if the site is still hacked you can do some things like check using https://sitecheck.sucuri.net to see if there is any blatant malware still on the site.
I would start there and I would add a WAF companies like Sucuri & incapsula are lifesavers when it comes to keeping this type of attack from happening.
Make sure your CMS is up-to-date if you're using one.
I hope this helps I do not think it is the disavowed tool if these are new links but that would depend on how long you have been keeping track of your links all that would need to be checked.
Respectfully,
Thomas Zickell
I am very sorry to hear you are not going to stay with Moz Pro, however, the best way to deal with something like this is to contact the friendly folks here via email at email help@moz.com
in fact, they may respond very quickly in this thread.
Respectfully,
Thomas
PS hopefully you will see the value and return
Yes it can if you want a simple solution use a managed WordPress hosting provider like Pressidium
, Pagely, Kinsta, Presslabs, Pantheon, WP Engine get Flywheel.
Not to try to promote anything but if you host with Performance Foundry. You get put on a Pagely VPS for less than Pagely ($100) but they go even farther than managed WordPress hosting companies and tuneup your site and do Developer work just for the price of posting. It is one of the best deal I've ever heard of and honestly I would recommend that
https://performancefoundry.com/category/hosting/
All the best,
tom
I would also strongly recommend a easy backup system blogvalt sucuri.net , codegard are great backup systems.
Your host should also have one.
Tom
Hi
It is your CSS. Your style sheat is broken.
If it is a word press, or other popular CMS you need to wake up call games or modules you have added and possibly disable or remove them try to roll the site back if you remember when it was not doing this.
Most importantly you need to contact a developer
I would want them on performanceFoundry.com they're great so is Authoritydev.com & gregreindel.com
A developer is what you need.
all the best,
Tom
Yes I would recommend moving to https over the curent http it will be very unlikely that you have an issue with google and The end-users will feel much more secure.
If you are doing this on a bespoke site ( not very common CMS or made by hand)
I know tools like letsencrypt.com give you a free certificate so will CloudFlare.com so if you're trying to have HTTP/2 , HSTS, forced https & a cert you can use for free version and it will do everything you need for https cost (free-$5,000) (any reverse proxy CDN or WAF) stackpath.com ($20) incapsula.com ($59) sucuri.net WAF ($19) Armor.com ($600-7,000) WAF only (under $200) Speedyrails.com has always had deals on cloudflare (35-40% off) if you're going to use it.
if you use a EV cert or just want to have a regular certificate I strongly recommend looking at third-party sites you can save a lot of money.
I like DigiCert and GlobalSign personal most of the others are on the Symantec what was VERISIGN you can definitely get away with getting one for $5-100 on namecheap but remember to search for the best price on Google.
They tend to make the job a lot easier and my personal opinion is that every person should actually do have WAF for their sites they like.
