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Oh, it's solved.

I forgot to say that we have switched hosting provider. From some reason it renamed our mu_plugins folder to mu_plugins_old. I have simply renamed the folded and reactivated cashing plugin, which creates the rule and writes in htaccess.

Thanks Andy for your contrubution. The links you share are useful for anyone looking for the right way of doing 301 redirections.

Cheers!

Dear mozers,

Thank you for your time reading the message and wanting to help!

So, we have moved our WordPress to https and redirected all the content successfully via htaccess file.

We used a simple 301 redirect plugin, which we are using to redirect old URLs to the new ones.

The problem today is, the redirections in the plugin are not working for http version. Here is an example:

htaccess redirect:

http --> https

Plugin redirect

domain.com/old --> domain.com/new

but, the url http://domain.com/old is not redirecting to https://domain.com/new

while

https://domain.com/old does redirects to https://domain.com/new

What can you suggest as a solution?

Thank you in advance!

P.S. I don't think having 2 redirects for each version of the URL is the smartest solution

Best wishes,

Dusan

Thanks Dirk. I will read the article.

Hi,

Does anyone have experience moving a website to https?

I am about to do so. I have 84 linking root domains and around 2k+ external links. If i move a website to https will these links be lost? And how to keep these links?

Many thanks,

Dusan

Hi Kevin,

Thank you very much for help. I have sent you an email.

Regards, Dusan

Why would you create landing page if you are already ranking high for the certain keyword? Usually home pages have the most backlinks and are most likely to rank highest. I would recommend you to re-design you home page with certain call-to-action button. Maybe a good slider in top would do the job. Hope it helps...

Dusan

Thanks Dirk, i'm on my way home right now. Will do what you recommend later today, and will let you know how it goes.

Cheers

Hi,

There is no right and wrong answer on your question.

I would definitely recommended to use brand name in meta tittles for brand recognition. If potential visitors start seeing your brand name in search results, than see it somewhere across social networks or PPC ads, there is high possibility for them to remember your brand and eventually click to see what is it all about.

Ofcourse you should concentrate more on relevant keywords, but if you have enough space i don't see a reason not to include it on the end of a string. If your brand is well known or stand for quality, than including the brand name in meta tittle adds value to your search snippet. But, if it is not well known, you are on a good track for it to become well known

f.x  Black leather jackets for woman | Brand Name

Regards,

Dusan

• meaning if you sell pencils and your brand name is XYZ

Dirk, thank you for the reply.

I did check the URL via web-sniffer, the http status is 301 moved permanently**.**

Why is it than that MOZ sees it as 404, i don't understand? Also how can I retrieve the value from those backlinks?

Thanks, Dusan

Dear  MOZers,

I have one concern i would like to ask you..

My website have valuable backlinks to the most important page which is awesome. But, some of those backlinks is old URL which is 301 redirected to the URL I use today. As far as i know 301 redirects pass page rank, so it should be alright. (?)

Link i use today: domain.com/awesome-url/

My backlink: domain.com/old-boring-url/    301 redirected to  domain.com/awesome-url/

What bothers me is that in MOZ report (Link opportunities) MOZ indicates my important URL (domain.com/old-boring-url/) return 404. But, it is not true. It is 301 redirected to domain.com/awesome-url/ and it works! I am worried i am losing important link juice here(!?)

Also, my On Page Grader tool for domain.com/awesome-url/ reports 0 backlinks. And that is not true! I know exactly which websites are linking back, only problem is that those website are using old URL (domain.com/old-boring-url/) to link back to my website.

Am i doing something wrong? Is there a better way to redirect and save valuable link juice for my page?

Thank you very much!

PS

The URL was changed in March 2015.

Thanks Dirk, i'm on my way home right now. Will do what you recommend later today, and will let you know how it goes.

Cheers

Oh, it's solved.

I forgot to say that we have switched hosting provider. From some reason it renamed our mu_plugins folder to mu_plugins_old. I have simply renamed the folded and reactivated cashing plugin, which creates the rule and writes in htaccess.

Thanks Andy for your contrubution. The links you share are useful for anyone looking for the right way of doing 301 redirections.

Cheers!

Thank you! It was helpful..

Thank you Monica, really good answer!

Now, with copyscape.com what is the percentage of uniqueness that is 'allright'?

We are selling laboratory products for cell analysis, tittles and descriptions of our products are highly scientific. Manufacturer is the only one who can write it. Re-writing is our only option.

However, i am not that scared of being penalies any more. Thank you very much!

Why would you create landing page if you are already ranking high for the certain keyword? Usually home pages have the most backlinks and are most likely to rank highest. I would recommend you to re-design you home page with certain call-to-action button. Maybe a good slider in top would do the job. Hope it helps...

Dusan