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great thanks, I have access via ftp but the CMS is pretty locked down, do you think this would cause this site to perform so badly in SRPS though, its an old site and it really just does rank as I would expect. Will look into 301s thanks

IM working on a site which is really not indexing as it should, I have created a sitemap.xml which I thought would fix the issue but it hasn't, what seems to be happening is the Google is making www pages canonical for some of the site and without www for the rest. the site should be without www. see images attached for a visual explanation.
when adding pages in Google search console without www some pages cannot be indexed as Google thinks the www version is canonical, and I have no idea why, there is no canonical set up at all, what I would do if I could is to add canonical tags to each page to pint to the non www version, but the CMA does not allow for canonical. not quite sure how to proceed, how to tell google that the non www version is in fact correct, I dont have any idea why its assuming www is canonical either???

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Muchas Gracias Gaston.
what do you think is the best way to resolve this, as i have to ask the guy who's doing the hosting...?

I have a redirect chain being flagged in Moz, this is the first time I have come across this, and Im convinced its causing an issue, the site is performing very badly. I have attached screen grabs of the redirect chain.  and the site is cotswold flat roofing

Is this redirect chain causing me an issue, and what is the best practice for getting it fixed or removed, the site currenly does not even show up in Google even when searching for its won brand, I removed an x robot noindex a week ago,  and now the only issue that I can see is this redirect chain

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Thanks Miriam, amazing answer, yes I tend to agree. But i think yours is the definitive answer here. Thanks very much for taking the time to help.

1. yes both roof related one is flat roofing one is thatched roofs, but very similar.
2. same phone number I believe
3. separate websites...
4. both legitimate separate registered businesses
5. just a suspension, but have asked for a review.

No Im pretty sure not, interesting though I hadn"t even noticed the GMB shortname yet...

Thanks Tim thats good too know, from what I had seen so far it seemed to be assumed that Google will not allow two GMBs at the same address, when my client set up the second listing, it was instantly suspended by Google, its god to know that its possible, nearly everything Id read had said Google is set against it.

I have an interesting problem with a site which has an x-robot tag blocking the site from being indexed, the site is in Wordpress, there are no issues with the robots.txt or at the page level, I cant find the noindex anywhere.

I removed the SEO plug-in which was there and installed Yoast but it made no difference.

this is the url: https://www.cotswoldflatroofing.com/

Its coming up with a HTTP error: x-robots tag noindex, nofollow, noarchive

I have a client (flat roofing) with two registered businesses both of which are based from the same address, upon trying to create a new GMB account for the second business, it was immediately suspended by Google. So somewhat unsurprisingly one address one business, but is there a way around this?

Whats peoples opinions about putting Call To Cations CTAs in Meta Descriptions, and does this ever occur a Google penalty, as it can sometimes look a bit clickbait.

For example I am looking at a site which currently has this meta description

Meta Description: For more information on our sustainable, natural office furniture, click here to get in contact.

Is this kind of description ranking unfriendly, Ive seen them used a lot but IM not a big fan of this myself.

Any thoughts?

When building backlinks myself I have been conscious to avoid going over the 30 spam score as recommended on Moz somewhere. But one of the sites I have recently started working on: https://www.osborneplanning.uk/
has a number of very high spam score backlinks, 5 above 50. Some are follow some nofollow. 
I am wondering if its a good idea to disavow them, or should I just leave them as they are, I have read some suggestions that Google will just ignore the majority of spammy backlinks, and its better just to keep them, I dont want to start deleting links if they don't cause any problems.

Im finding a site with lots of duplicated words in the title tags, I have always avoided doing this in the past, Is there any penalty for having a word repeated twice in the title, indeed is there a benefit from having it twice, IM assuming not
For example: Marketing Services in Milton Keynes | Our Services | TFA
https://www.t-f-a.co.uk/services

the word service is repeated twice, in my opinion this is of no benefit at all and is better rewritten to remove the duplication