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Thanks Gaston. Everything seems to redirect fine, so I guess I need to be patient!

Solved this issue with the duplicate title tags. I'm using the Divi theme in Wordpress. I couldn't find the code I mentioned above in the header.php file, but when I went to the Divi theme options and clicked on the Integration tab, the code was in the Field under the code for the Bing verification code. Removed now and everything is fine.

I moved my website in May from Wix to Wordpress. Since then the home page authority has dropped from 27 to 16. The old website displayed as www.ajlansell.co.uk, but the new site is set to ajlansell.co.uk without the www (this was set by my hosting company).

I tried changing the settings in Wordpress to www.etc, and the home page bounces back up to a page authority of 27 - but it messes up the menus and some other elements on the page so that the page is not displayed correctly.

Is there any other way I can get that page authority back? Thanks.

I guess time will tell, meanwhile I have plenty other issues to work on

I'm still trying to find out where that extra code is coming from.

Thanks again. The content does render correctly in search console so maybe I'm panicking about nothing. I can't find the extra title tag in the theme code but i'll keep looking.

Hi Jordan,

Thanks for taking the time to look. Some great suggestions from you there that I've added to my list of things to do.

I have removed the Yoast SEO plugin that may have been causing the duplicate titles issue, but the issue persists.

About the content, I know my pages are a bit thin as you point out above, but what I'm concerned about is that Moz reports that I have less than 50 words on each page, which is not the case, and another tool reports that each page only has 13 characters of content. I can see this bit of code when I look at the page source code, but I don't know where it's coming from.

| <title></span>Your SEO optimized title<span class="html-tag"></title> |
|   | |
|   | |
|   | page contents |
|   |   |

I'm sure this is what's causing both issues. I don't want to add more content to the pages at this stage if crawlers can't see it, I'd rather fix this issue first.

This is what I mean - if you look at the attached screen shot you can see the words "page contents" at the top left. I think this is what all the tools are picking up and reporting back as my page content, and ignoring everything else. This is not usually visible but appeared when I used the Moz toolbar.

You can also see the other problem I have, that is duplicate page titles - there is the actual page title, and another which says "your seo title". I don't know what's causing these issues and have no idea how to fix it.

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Hi Jordan,

Thanks for the reply. I set up 301 redirects only for the pages that I'd changed the name of. The domain format has changed from www.domain.co.uk to domain.co.uk without the www, and although it seems to redirect fine, the page authority has gone down from 26 to 16 after the move so there's something not right there.

The new site was submitted and indexed in search console, so the pages are indexed.

All the tools that I've used report that my page content is only 13 characters, - that's what makes me wonder if they think that "page contents" from this bit of code page contents is the actual content, and it's ignoring all the other stuff on the page.

I moved my website from Wix to Wordpress in May 2018. Since then, it's disappeared from Google searches. The site and pages are indexed, but no longer ranking.

I've just started a Moz campaign, and most pages are being flagged as having "thin content" (50 words or less), when I know that there are 300+ words on most of the pages.

Looking at the page source I find this bit of code:  page contents

Does this mean that Google is finding this and thinks that I have only two words (page contents) on the page? Or is this code to grab the page contents from somewhere else in the code? I'm completely lost with this and would appreciate any insight.

I've just found the same problem with my Wordpress site. The answer is to add the %%page%% variable to the page title field so the pages then appear with their own number rather than as a duplicate page. This explains it a bit more:

https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-fix-duplicate-meta-tags/

Hope this helps!

I moved my website from Wix to Wordpress in May 2018. Since then, it's disappeared from Google searches. The site and pages are indexed, but no longer ranking.

I've just started a Moz campaign, and most pages are being flagged as having "thin content" (50 words or less), when I know that there are 300+ words on most of the pages.

Looking at the page source I find this bit of code:  page contents

Does this mean that Google is finding this and thinks that I have only two words (page contents) on the page? Or is this code to grab the page contents from somewhere else in the code? I'm completely lost with this and would appreciate any insight.

Solved this issue with the duplicate title tags. I'm using the Divi theme in Wordpress. I couldn't find the code I mentioned above in the header.php file, but when I went to the Divi theme options and clicked on the Integration tab, the code was in the Field under the code for the Bing verification code. Removed now and everything is fine.

Hi Jordan,

Thanks for taking the time to look. Some great suggestions from you there that I've added to my list of things to do.

I have removed the Yoast SEO plugin that may have been causing the duplicate titles issue, but the issue persists.

About the content, I know my pages are a bit thin as you point out above, but what I'm concerned about is that Moz reports that I have less than 50 words on each page, which is not the case, and another tool reports that each page only has 13 characters of content. I can see this bit of code when I look at the page source code, but I don't know where it's coming from.

| <title></span>Your SEO optimized title<span class="html-tag"></title> |
|   | |
|   | |
|   | page contents |
|   |   |

I'm sure this is what's causing both issues. I don't want to add more content to the pages at this stage if crawlers can't see it, I'd rather fix this issue first.