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Hello,

our programmer recently updated our http version website to https.  Does it matter if we have TWO 301 redirects?  Here is an example:

http://www.colocationamerica.com/dedicated_servers/linux-dedicated.htm

301

https://www.colocationamerica.com/dedicated_servers/linux-dedicated.htm

301

https://www.colocationamerica.com/linux-dedicated-server

We're getting pulled in two different directions.  I read https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo and don't know if 2 301's suffice. Please let me know.  Greatly appreciated!

Thank you for the reply @sys_admin

We are using cloudflare as well and use the https redirection.  I didn't mention cloudflare earlier because i don't want to rely on a 3rd party to handle my redirects.

Hi Mozzers,

I referred a client of mine (last time) to a programmer that can transition their site from http to https.  They use a wordpress website and currently use EPS Redirects as a plugin that 301 redirects about 400 pages.  Currently, the way EPS redirects is setup (as shown in the attachment) is simple:

On the left side you enter your old url, and on the the right side is the newly 301'd url.  But here's the issue, since my client made the transition to https, the whole wordpress backend is setup that way as well.  What this means is, if my client finds another old http url that he wants to redirect, this plugin only allows them to redirect https to https.

As of now, all old http to https redirects STILL work even though the left side of the plugin switched all url's to a default HTTPS.  But my client is worried the next plugin update he will lose all http to https redirects.  While asking our programmer to add all 400 redirects to .htaccess, he states that's too many redirects and could slow down the website.  Well, we don't want to lose all 400 301's and jeopardize our SEO.

Question: what does everyone suggest as an alternative solution/plugin to redirect old http urls to https and future https to https urls?

Thank you all!

Ol8km

Great question.  Even though it's been 3 years since this question has been asked, I feel like it's been a hot topic for the past 10 years.  No one knows the "REAL" answer, SEO's can just assume.  There are several companies in fact who even offer "SEO Hosting" as a package with unique IP addresses aka a Full C-Class IP so that every client will be on a dedicated IP.

Think of it as a house.  You and your website is 1 person living in a home.  Now imagine sharing your home with 1000 people or 1000 websites.  How does Google take you seriously if you're sharing a house aka IP addresses aka page speed (bandwidth).  If you're on a dedicated IP, you are the owner of that website...No ones spammy links, gambling, porn, directory submission sites will be shared with you, and if they are, people often question if those sites should be connected to your site...even though the website names are different.

I used an example from http://www.colocationamerica.com/why-a-dedicated-ip-address-is-important.htm that shows one website with a dedicated IP vs a shared IP.  If you do a reverse IP lookup on the domain with a shared IP, you get websites that have no affiliation with your website that can also be spammy and/or have spammy related links.  From what I remember, that's when you have bad neighborhood links, and I don't think your website wants to be a part of it.

As far as costs, a shared IP is basically free vs. a dedicated IP is $4-10/year.

Now if we're going to talk about the dedicated server vs a shared server....there's no question that if you're serious about eCommerce sales, you want to go with the dedicated server.  Prices vary from $99 up to $400 for reasonable speed.  Now as an example, if you were selling water bottles for $10 and your cost was $2, your margins (with the cost of shipping of processing fees), contribute to a $5 net profit.  If you sell between 5-30 bottles a month, there no need for a dedicated server just yet.  I would accept the fact that keyword rankings wouldn't be as high and would bank on Ebay and Amazon to stay above water.  But when you're serious about selling 30+ bottles, your sales will indeed offset the costs of a $99/month dedicated server.  Not only will the speed of the dedicated server lower the bounce rate and increase conversions of your ecommerce store, but your keyword rankings will have a significant boost when your page speed increases to a comfortable level so that your customer doesn't get irritated from the slow shared server speeds.

Best,

Shawn

What about for Bing?  Do i create 4 variations?

yes.

Krzysztof,

Does that mean I have to add sitemaps to all 4 versions as well?  Including data highlighter schema?  Or the purpose of these 4 it to redundant disavow files?

Thank you

Hi Mozzers!

So we're finally ready to move from http to https.  Penguin is finally showing us some love due to the recent algorithm updates.  I just added the https to Google search console and before 301 redirecting the whole site to a secure environment.....do i upload the same disavow file to the https version?

Moreover, is it best to have both the http and https versions on Google Search console?  Or should I add the disavow file to the https version and delete the http version in a month?

And what about Bing?

Help.

Hi Ya'll.

I'm transitioning our http version website to https.  Important question:

Do images have to have 301 redirects? If so, how and where?

Please send me a link or explain best practices.

Best,

Shawn

Hi Ya'll

I'm looking for a company or independent who can transition our website from http to https.  I want to make sure they know what they're doing with a Wordpress website.  More importantly, i want to make sure they don't break any seo juice from external sources while internally nothing gets broken.

Anyone have any good recommendations?  You can reply back or DM me.

Best,

Shawn

Hello,

My website started to offer guest blog posting and was wondering if it is a good idea to have an anchor text link to a not relevant website in the author bio. The content the guest blogger gave me is relevant to my website but in the author bio there are a couple of anchor text links that are linking to a completly different industry.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello,

I am developing our new site that will create tabs such as "design", "tech specs", "customer ratings" etc. just like http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15z-5523/pd.

My question is, if most of my content is on the 2nd and 3rd tabs, would my content effect my overall SEO if it's not on it's default view?

Because, if users don't physically click on the 2nd and 3rd tab, does it mean that since there is no impression of that content, that content will be allocated to half of its SEO juice?

Let me know, I would love to know!

• Shawn

Hello,

For a business with multiple locations that has a web url built for each location such as:

Website.com/miami

Website.com/los-angeles

For local search (Google+, Yelp, etc), is it best to link the local search pages to the specific page of that location?  Or is the homepage sufficient enough?

I ask that because it is ALREADY touch getting NATURAL links to a location page, so would local search do me good by linking to the exact page of the location?

Guest blogger is a great way to communicate with those in the blog category so I do not mind giving websites link juice. They take time out of their lives to create quality content for us so the least we can do is link back to their site. That is why when we started letting guest blog posting we publish our website's demographic to show bloggers the traffic our blog gets.

It would be a shame if I stripped away all their links and publish their content

Hi Scott, you can actually find out specific locations via Google Ad Preview:

https://adwords.google.com/apt/AdPreview?__u=1000000000&__c=1000000000

Enjoy!

Just DM'ed you James.  Thanks in advance!

Hi Community!

2 weeks ago, i sent in our first/HUGE disavow list to Google. Out of the 2700 domains we submitted, 1300 of them we successfully removed, but we have nothing to show Google. Reason is because on our reconsideration request page, we can't submit anything because we didn't receive a message from Google (please see screenshot). I know for a FACT we got hit by an ALGORITHM penalty back in March2013. So, I have this wonderful Gdoc to prove that we worked LONG AND HARD to add and remove links in the past year, but we can't seem to message Google and tell them our story on why we should be reconsidered.

How do we tell Google our success of removals? It's been 2 weeks, how much longer until we see a change in traffic? Or do we have to wait for the next update of algorithms by google aka REFRESH to see a change?

Let me know and thank you so much in advance!

Shawn

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Hi Ya'll.

I'm transitioning our http version website to https.  Important question:

Do images have to have 301 redirects? If so, how and where?

Please send me a link or explain best practices.

Best,

Shawn