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hi guys, I have had to reset my site from www to non-www. via htacces and this worked out just fine.However, the /blog WordPress section will not redirect to the non-www. I have changed the config.php to non-www.

However, the /blog WordPress section will not redirect to the non-www. I have changed the config.php to non-www.

Does anyone have an idea as to what I need to do to force the non-www in a folder installed blog

http://5starweddingdirectory.com/

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/blog/

Regards T

Hi Mcncil,

Wordpress is installed in a folder /blog

regards T

Hi, we are rebuilding our site which was built on WordPress.

The old permalink structure was /%post_id%/%postname%/

The new site is a custom build (not Wordpress), however, we are using WordPress for blog posts. The URL structure is www.customewebsite/blog/

As the custom site is not WordPress, we do not know how to create a redirect to push the WordPress url /%post_id%/ to the /blog section of the new site. What we currently get is page not found.

Can anyone help with the htaccess redirect code?

Many thanks one and all.

Wow, thanks you for the links Gaston, I will look in to these..

All the best

Hi, we are moving our site from http to https and would like to know what should one look out for. What are the things that can go wrong, and what is the best way to go about it.

Regards Tai

Hi Tim, thanks for your help.

Yes wordpress will be installed in a folder /blog/

So it should be quite simple to do this redirect!

Regards Tai

Hi what is the code to redirect wordpress blog from site.com/%post_id%/%postname%/   to site.com/blog/%postname%/ We are moving the site to a new server and new url structure.

Thanks in advance

Duplicate title tags due to /?escaped_fragment=

in the serps, it look like this

http://www.site.com/25621/post-name/#!

http://www.site.com/25621/post-name/

Does anyone know what the best fix is for this and does this affect the sites performance.

Regards T

Hi thank you for your reply, yes we are on WP, how did you set this up?

Regards T

PS. I added

Disallow: /*escaped_fragment=DONOTCRAWL   to my Robots.txt

will this fix it?

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/faq#can-i-use-this-scheme-to-help-with-making-my-flash-or-other-rich-media-files-more-crawlable

T

Hi I am not sure where this came from ... ?escaped_fragment=

But in webmaster we are seeing hundreds of pages with this and thus webmaster is saying that we have Pages with duplicate title tags

How do I fix this, or remove it.

Regards T

Currently this is what applies throughout the site.
property="og:locale" content="en_GB" /> 

How would one set this for properties in Italy or Spain for example? (The language is all in English)

Regards Tai

Thanks for the answer and for endorsing the question.

Regards Tai

How do i block http://www.site.com/members/....name/activity/3202 and many more like this from getting spider

showing up as duplicate in moz

Regards Tai

Great, thanks for clearing this up.

Have a great day..

Sorry

But what if my site is only in english and not multi language.. do i need to use the above.

Using Flang, I tested BBC.co.uk and Moz.com and both do not use hreflang...

Confused..

Hi MattAntonio,

Thanks for your reply, so are you saying that this code is correct?

Regards Tai

Hi does anyone know the correct hreflang for the UK

Google webmaster error:

International Targeting | Language > 'en-GB' - no return tags (sitemaps)Sitemap provided URLs and alternate URLs in 'en-GB' that do not have return tags.Thanks you all

Hi i hope its ok, i sent the links/urls to your email

Regards T

Thanks Kane, Webmaster says that I have 2500 Duplicate title tags and 2300 Duplicate meta descriptions

Is there a quick way to fix these

I am using redirection plugin which redirects the both urls to the same page. Google last crawled the page on the 25th Feb..

The site is 10 years old

Thanks

Hi Eric,

I changed the permalinks months ago...

what should I be looking for in Screaming Frog..

Just ran Screaming Frog and it does not show any major duplicate issues..

Webmaster is giving errors of Duplicate Meta Descriptions and Duplicate Title Tags after I changes the permalinks structure in wordpress.

It there a quick fix for this and how damaging is the above for seo.

Thanks T

Thanks for your suggestions Peter and Malika,

By the wayt The staging site had it's own url..

I think I need help with the canonical stuff, as I am not really sure how to use it.

duplicate content issue: staging url has been indexed by google ( many pages) and need to know how to remove them from the serps.

Bing sees the staging url as moved permanently

Google sees the staging urls (240 results) and redirects to the correct url Should I be concerned about duplicate content and request Google to remove the staging url removed

Thanks Guys

Hi Kristen

Thanks for the heads up.. I have found the cause...

Wordpress v. 4.4, on my test site i rolled back to 4.3.1 and it all works fine. So I think it must be an issue with the plugin which has not been updated to wordpress 4.4

Thank you for your help.

i see, how and where do i apply this, sounds like it's worth a try.

Thanks

Hi Kristen,

Thanks for your reply. We are not blocking via robots.txt. the problem shows up on the directory section, categories, tags and listings all showing the same meta title.

We have had Yoest team take a look at it, (possibly SEO plugin) The wordpress theme support has also tested..

All drawing blanks at the moment

Hi our website meta title on the directory section is showing the same title, it does not show the page title.

We have tried turning off all plugins, reinstalling the theme, creating a new htacces file. installing Yoast, and testing with All in one seo but still the same thing happens.

Tried different themes with the same results

But when we test with Twenty Thirteen it is ok

Completely lost and would love some help

Thanks in advance

can you do me a favour and check if  http://www.............magazine.com is duplicate with the above domain that we are talking about i used your similar page checker and it said 100% we have a redirect on the domain, but i am concerned that it may not be effective

Thank you for your help, So these pages have no content on them yet, So I guess I need to put some content on them. Do you think that these issues affect my google ranking?

T

Hi Chiaryn, and Bryan
 thanks for your help..

I did not want to be too specific initially as I did not know how open this help request would be.The site is as mentioned above.

One question, will all these duplicate content affect the site in Google?

I can apply the User-agent: *
Disallow: ?attachmentWhat is the code to perform the canonical tag?

Also please can you look at this duplicate content.. I do t understand why it is duplicate content

If I fix these issues will my site ranking improve?

Thanks again

T

Hi thanks for the heads up.. just been very frustrating.

Moz and Google show dup internal content.

Using WordPress and Yoest SEO plugin to try to fix some of the issues.

Blog content

Regards T

Need help fixing the duplicate content that keeps growing

Hi does anyone know how to fix wordpress sidebar dropdown url ?cat...number

found this below, but still not sure the best way to fix

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-display-category-name-in-url-not-cat-number

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-drop-down-menu-shows-wrong-permalink-structure-1

any ideas?

Hi Dirk,

This is why I love the Moz community.. Thanks you so much for the info, it works a treat.

Have a great day

T

Hi guys, I have noticed loads of errors in webmaster, page not found..

/label/.....

what i need to do is to a 301 redirect to /tags/...

can some one tell me the redirect code to help fix this issue

Regards T

Yes thanks all sorted.

Tai

Hi Tom, Thank you so much for your help. Just need to be clear on one thing.. Most of the images are pointing to the correct uploads folder.

And some are pointing to /blog/wp-content/uploads folder.

ps. the permalinks settings have been set up.

pps. Your suggestions do look a bit complicated.. (i may need to get some to look at implementing it)

Hi, i have recently moved my wordpress blog to a new server..

Previously I had a url as website.com/blog

My blog site is now running on the domain website.com

Now most of my images are in the correct folder path wp-content/uploads

Howerver, some of my images are pointing to a folder /blog/wp-content/uploads and so I am getting many missing image on the front end.

How do i get the /blog/wp-content/uploads point to the new url wp-content/uploads

Thanks guys..

Taiger

Thank Brabants,

So I think i sorted it.

1 changed the nameserver,

2 Changed the wordpress general settings to the new domain.. and all works great..phew

Thanks Guys MOZ Community Rocks

Hi guys thank you for your messages.

The migration has been done, the 301 redirects has been done (because half of the site was built in Django, so we had to manually move the content to wordpress.

So the site is running lovely but on the temp domain.

I hope there is a method where we can change the url to the new domain or am i just been silly?

T

Hi i wonder if anyone can help.

I have migrated my site to a new host, with a temp domain name i.e., http://www.test1.com

The current site is still live on another host with the domain name http://www.perfecttest.com

The temp site is now ready to do live. but we want to use the domain perfecttest.com

a. What is the process to move the domain to the new host and to change the test1.com to be perfecttest.com.

I  kneo that we need to change the domain perfecttest.com nameserver to point to the new host but i am sure there must be more that need to be done inorder to not have issues.

Your help will be grateful

T

Sorry for the delay. And thank you for your help.

My site has been cloned by this f........ http://designer.aimeeprom.com/

original site http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com

Still has our logo etc...

How can we prevent this from happening, What should I do next. I have pinged them via the interactive chat but they do not reply..

Hi. So do mean that my site is coming up in Google.ca as a link farm.. what does this mean.. Please can you provide more info.

we are based in the UK.

Hi guys, sorry confused, what is g.ca

(Just curious how you think Pigeon affected a wedding directory site?) not sure what you mean here.

Thanks BCutrer,

The disavow was done last year, and is updated. We did not see much upturn with the latest updates.

We have not done any link building for years (may be this can be a problem)

The above link was done over two years ago by bad seo company, this is why we are looking for some help

Hi BCutrer, Thanks for your question, well is has been a long ongoing problem with the site, drop in traffic, then an upturn and recently another drop. So not sure if it is a technical issues or a penalty. We have not receive a manual webspam, but was told to disavow bad links which we did, but still no upturn in traffic from Google, bing or yahoo.

So looking to see if anyone has used a firm that can analyse issues to see exactly why the sites performance has dropped.. A clear understanding of why sites performance drops and not guess work.

Thanks Pixelbypixel. I was wondering if anyone has had website/seo issues and could recommend a company that really help them.

Tai