For $9.99 you get an improved site listing i.e. logo and 2 direct links to your website? Are these links valuable from and SEO point of view? Has anyone taken out a subscription for this reason, even though they could be construed as paid links?

Many thanks, Peter

Hi Cyrus,

Thank you so very much. Success! I can't tell you how delighted and grateful I am. I have spent hours over the Easter weekend trying to fix it, but to no avail. You are a god in my eyes! You have made my day and halted the rash of broken/duped links emanating from our website.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Very best,

Peter

Many thanks Cyrus. Sorry to hear you're confused! Thank you for offering to help.

There are redirects of a number of old pages. Here's a sample of them.

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.petersommer.com/

redirect 301 /writing_index.html http://www.petersommer.com/travel-writing/

Unfortunately I'm not sure what isn't working or what needs to be done to fix it. I wish I did! I assume it must be something in the Rewrite Rules or we need to add in some Rewrite Rules to fix it.

All the redirects are unfortunately adding a ? and the old URL to the end of the new redirected URL.

All are following the same pattern - unfortunately.

If you can see any glitches in the Rewrite Rules or can identify something we need to add that will be super.

Thanks again, Peter

Thanks for trying Marisa. Appreciate your time and effort. Best wishes, Peter

Thanks so much for the quick response Marisa. Apologies if I've confused in any way.

The 301 redirect of the gallery tombs is just one of a long list of redirects, hence 'other redirects...' I removed the rest just for ease.

The htaccess is in the main root. I just happened to leave a gallery page as an example of a redirect.

I wondered if there might be a Rewriterule that I could include in the file to solve this issue across the board rather than deal individually - there's about 100 redirects including the one mentioned.

If you can assist further that would be brilliant! I'd really appreciate it.

best wishes,

Peter

In summary, we're currently having issues with our htaccess file. 301 redirects are going through to the new described URL but in addition the new URL is followed by a ? and the old URL. How can we get rid of the ? and previous URL so they don't appear as an ending.

None of the examples we've found re this issue online appear to work. Can anyone please offer some advice? Can we use a RewriteRule to stop this happening?

Here's a summary of the htaccess file

REDIRECT CODE BEGINS HERE

LONG LIST OF REDIRECTS, which appear to be set up perfectly fine.

REDIRECT CODE ENDS

DirectoryIndex index.php

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On

Options +FollowSymLinks
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond $1 !^(images|system|themes|pdf|favicon.ico|robots.txt|index.php) [NC]
        RewriteRule ^.htaccess$ - [F]
        RewriteRule ^favicon.ico - [L]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]</ifmodule>

DirectoryIndex index.php

Thanks all for the great responses.

One further question...if these methods still can't get the bounce rate down. Would it be a good idea to remove the content (to a new site and redirect) or should we just live with the high bounce?

Hi all,

We run a website offering specialist turkey tours and gulet cruises. Our website holds a few information and recipes pages which are doing well in the engines and bring in alot of traffic. However these pages are crippling our bounce rate with bounces of about 80-90%.

The time on site for these pages are above the websites average, but it seems that once the reader has finished with the information/ recipe, they bounce back to the Search engines.

An example of one of our recipe pages can be found here: http://www.petersommer.com/turkey/turkish-food/pilav-rice/

We have thought about moving and redirecting these pages from our main site to a new website, but we are worried that it may effect our position in the SERP's.

Can anybody offer any advice on this?

Thanks