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Thanks Robert.  All done

Hi Robert,

thank you for your response made the change around a month ago.  Be great if your apache expert had a perfect re-write rile for this, let me know if you hear of anything

Thanks again,

Ian

Hi,

I have switched my site from a http .co.uk site to a https .com site.  I have set a 301 redirect in the .htaccess file pointing all traffic going to the original .co.uk site to go to the new https:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^up-bus.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.up-bus.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "https://www.up-bus.com/$1" [R=301,L]

however when i search in google for keywords the original .co.uk site is still registering in search, is there something else I am required to do to tell google to use the new https site instead?  Do i need to do redirects for every page, or is what I have done above sufficient?

Hope you can help, I am struggling with getting our site to register on google search, any advice greatly welcome

Thanks in advance,

Ian

Thanks Miriam, much appreciated.  I'll check it out see how I get on

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes by "this service" I meant I am looking at setting up Google Business pages, Facebook etc for my clients...getting social !

It is difficult and I have noticed that, as you say, there may already be "profiles out there with your business name on them" The review one of my clients has received is from 5 months ago even though the google page has only been live 2 weeks?...maybe there already was a profile in existence.  I asked google if there are any checks carried out on reviewers locations as if the reviewer is not local to my client i.e. lives on the other side of the world, it is obviously fake due to the content.  They said they operate an equal rights policy, which I did not understand how that was an answer to my question.  In any case the rights are definitely heavily waited towards protecting everyone except small local businesses.  Many businesses are simply doing their day to day job which is more than enough, without having to come home jump on a computer to see someone attacking their livelihood without them having any real fear of getting caught.

If there was a clear route to appeal and a specific timeline as to when issues with reviews will be dealt with (i.e. that day, not 4-6 weeks later when the damage is done), I think I would feel a lot more at ease.

Genuine negative reviews I understand, but then if it is genuine the phone number is on the website on the google page, pick up the phone/send an email direct, talk to someone, no response, go right ahead write a bad review.

Fake/Spam/Competitor driven, there should be some way of dealing with this, which isn't so difficult.  Responding to spam I fear would invite more, so I guess ignore and get more positive reviews is the best option.

Thanks again for your response

Ian

Not sure if I am missing something here...I have phoned and asked Google business how they deal with reviews which are potentially fake and damaging to a business reputation, it seems there is very little a small local business can do about them other than report the review with no guarantee of anyone helping  ...Has anyone else had this issue as I would really like to use this service to assist with rankings on google?  It is hard to convince (and to be honest I don't want to have to convince!) a local business that this is a good service at the same time as informing them they will more than likely have to spend extra time fending off fake reviews...Not seen any good answers anywhere else, ignoring the reviews, adding more positive reviews or replying/managing reviews are not an option.

Hope someone can help with this, thanks