Hi,I have a website www.contractor-accounts.co.uk that has an .htaccess file that strips .php and forces a closing brace /. The site is now over 6 months old and still has a very low ranking with MOZ also rating the site as DA/PA = 1 which seems to indicate some sort of issue with the website.  Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why this site is ranking poorly as much of the onpage SEO has been completed to a level of 90%+ for specific keyterms so I'm probably either looking at routing of the framework of so other technical SEO issues possibly?

Any help much apreciated...

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""><ifmodule mod_negotiation.c="">Options -MultiViews</ifmodule>

RewriteEngine On

# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    # RewriteRule ^(.)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^.]+$
     RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
   
    # Redirect non-WWW to WWW...
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^contractor-accounts.co.uk [NC]
     RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.contractor-accounts.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller...
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
     RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]</ifmodule>

I have some basic rules set up in my .htaccess file and just curious as to the implications of them as I seem to have a website ranking very low on Search indexes for no particular reason that I can fathom. My question is a follows

I have a htaccess rules set up in my application application that first strips the file suffix and then adds a closing brace for example

Rule 1:  http://www.domain.com/my_page.php becomes http://www.domain.com/my_page
 Rule 2:  http://www.domain.com/my_page becomes http://www.domain.com/my_page/

Will this rule expecially Rule 2 effect ranking or will these rule have no adverse affect on the website as my MOZ reports still seem to have pages listed win the Top Pages by PA section without the www? Below is an example of the htacess file.

RewriteEngine On

Redirect Trailing Slashes...

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^.]+$
 RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

Redirect non-WWW to WWW...

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

Handle Front Controller...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

Hi,

To answer the question so far the grade of the page is A . I have had a look at this issue over the weekend and the problem seems to be the following

http://www.eafs.eu/contracting-europe/working-in-netherlands/dutch-payroll/
This page is graded as Page Authority 1 and is the URL format used on the navigation, canonical meta tag and sitemap. This page has an .htaccess directive to strip (.php & add a trailing slash).
Ref: http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eafs.eu%2Fcontracting-europe%2Fworking-in-netherlands%2Fdutch-payroll%2F

http://www.eafs.eu/contracting-europe/working-in-netherlands/dutch-payroll.php
The correct URL and not used anywhere on the website but is graded as PA 12
REF: http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eafs.eu%2Fcontracting-europe%2Fworking-in-netherlands%2Fdutch-payroll.php

So should I be using the full URL with .php on the website or use the cleaned/canonical URL on the site and why is there such a difference in Page Authority? Am i missing something?

HI,

Can someone tell me why 2 A pages are showing up in red in the F Grade page ? I see Page title missing from the output and just curious if I need to addrss some issue.

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