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Thanks Michael.

I'm at a lost. I did not do this and i have never paid or asked anyone to create 13,787 backlinks for me. Would a disavow correct this and stop it from happening again?

I have very few incoming links, hardly enough to be considered spammy, i think. But how would i go about doing a disavow? There are no errors or manual actions being listed under WMT.

I am at lost. My website has been live for about 3 months. Typing my name or my direct page title into google puts me on page 15.

My site is indexed by google, a site:mywebsitename search - produces 202 results. My on page SEO isn't amazing buy it isn't terrible either. The website has 35+, 500 words+ reviews and a few incoming links from some occasional link building. 0 duplicate content.

The website is animexcess.com
My thoughts on what might be causing the problem, i am hoping that someone with a bit more SEO knowledge than myself can point me in the right direction.

1. During development, i had duplicate content up on the site as placeholder while i wrote my own - All duplicate content has been removed for about 3 months now, but can this still be affecting me ranking? and to this extent?
2. The entire website is in a sub-directory with 301 redirects - can this be affecting my ranking to this extent?
3. The domain had a prior owner. Waybackmachine tells me that the domain had a page up in 2007. I bought it in 2010. If the prior owner built up a bad rep on this domain can is still be the cause for poor ranking 6 years later? I cannot file a reconsideration request since there are no manual actions taken against my site in WMT, any way around this?
4. Its only been three months. I know 3 months isn't a very long time in the google ranking world but my my 2 week old, built in 1 week, secondary website is ranking on page 1 for some pretty solid terms, so i don't think 3 months is to short a time to expect a bit of results.

• My website is being crawled daily.
  Any advice on how to move forward with fixing my website ranking will be much obliged. Thank you.

SEOmoz tool shows me 2 errors for duplicate content pages (www.abc.com and www.abc.com/index.html). I believe, the solution to this is writing 301 redirects

I need two 301 redirects

1. abc.com  to  www.abc.com

2. /index.html  to  /     (which is www.abc.com/index.html   to   www.abc.com)

The code that I currently have is

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.abc.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 http://www.abc.com/index.html http://www.abc.com

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but this does not redirect /index.html to abc.com. What is wrong here? Please help.