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  • serverleap
    serverleap last edited by Apr 2, 2016, 7:18 PM

    Even here in moz community I am noticing it. Is it really a factor to have an ending slash on the page? Does it make a difference? Our website has a homepage PA of 63, DA of 56 but all of our sub-pages are just 1 and they have been up for 4 months.

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    • serverleap
      serverleap @BlueprintMarketing last edited by Apr 4, 2016, 8:02 PM Apr 4, 2016, 8:02 PM

      The redirect checker website is excellent. Great find!

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      • BlueprintMarketing
        BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 4, 2016, 7:14 PM Apr 4, 2016, 7:07 PM

        Hope this helps,

        Please see: https://github.com/blueprintmrk/htaccess

        &

        https://github.com/blueprintmrk/htaccess#redirect-using-redirectmatch

        Removing "/."  from .PHP URLs "win-win"

        Alias “Clean” URLs

        This snippet lets you use “clean” URLs -- those without a PHP extension, e.g. example.com/users instead ofexample.com/users.php.

        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
        

        Remove Trailing Slash

        This snippet will redirect paths ending in slashes to their non-slash-terminated counterparts (except for actual directories), e.g. http://www.example.com/blog/ to http://www.example.com/blog That is important for SEO since it’s recommended to have a canonical URL for every page.

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
        RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
        

        Force HTTPS

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
        RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
        
        # Note: It’s also recommended to enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
        # on your HTTPS website to help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
        # See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/HTTP_strict_transport_security
         <ifmodule mod_headers.c="">Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains"</ifmodule> 
        

        Force HTTPS Behind a Proxy

        Useful if you have a proxy in front of your server performing TLS termination.

        RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
        RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
        

        PS

        checkout

        https://www.nginx.com/products/ they are great!

        Tom

        Alias “Clean” URLs

        This snippet lets you use “clean” URLs -- those without a PHP extension, e.g. example.com/users instead ofexample.com/users.php.

        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
        
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        • BlueprintMarketing
          BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 4, 2016, 9:10 AM Apr 4, 2016, 9:07 AM

          <code class="language-htaccess" style="padding: 2px 6px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; border-radius: 3px; text-shadow: #ffffff 0px 1px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; tab-size: 4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Glad I can help 
          Try useing this to check it  
          
          http://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php </code>
          

          `#removes trailing slash if not a directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

          or
          https://css-tricks.com/snippets/htaccess/remove-file-extention-from-urls/

          Take the / off the end of this
          https://regex101.com/r/oK8xL9/3 like this` ^((?:\w+/\w+)+)$

          Seach & replace might be needed

          <code class="language-htaccess" style="padding: 2px 6px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; border-radius: 3px; text-shadow: #ffffff 0px 1px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; tab-size: 4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Hope that helps,
          Tom</code>
          

          obO0B3d.png

          serverleap 1 Reply Last reply Apr 4, 2016, 8:02 PM Reply Quote 0
          • serverleap
            serverleap last edited by Apr 4, 2016, 12:22 AM Apr 4, 2016, 12:06 AM

            Brilliant!

            Thank you so much Thomas!!! I will see what I can do about cleaning this all up!

            I believe I have located it the issue. The redirects are occurring after a base rewrite rule:

            Rewrite URLs to / from .html. SEO friendly. Added by David Turner 12/26/15

            RewriteBase /

            Rewrite requests for index.php to directory to avoid 500 errors when added to paths. Added by David Turner 12/30/15

            RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
            RewriteRule ^(.
            )index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

            remove the .html extension

            RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.).html\ HTTP
            RewriteRule (.
            ).html$ $1 [R=301]

            remove index and reference the directory

            RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]

            remove trailing slash if not a directory

            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
            RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]

            forward request to html file, but don't redirect (bot friendly)

            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
            RewriteRule (.*) $1.html [L]

            Moving the 301s above these and cleaning these up a bit should restore the 301 redirects properly and regain Moz PA.

            BlueprintMarketing 2 Replies Last reply Apr 4, 2016, 7:07 PM Reply Quote 1
            • BlueprintMarketing
              BlueprintMarketing last edited by Apr 4, 2016, 12:06 AM Apr 3, 2016, 8:49 PM

              Found it your non-https .php URL has backlinks & you are 301  redirecting it to the "/" URL.

              After that redirects to the non-/. Thus creating a redirect chain

              You need to redirect the non-HTTPS version of the site/URL  to the non-/ version of the site.  This will give you the domain and page authority that you are missing.

              I confirmed the back links using majestic.com

              Result

              http://www.ultrawebsitehosting.com/hosting-dedicated.php backlinks 
              301 Moved Permanently
              https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers/
              301 Moved Permanently
              https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers lost PA when redirected so many times. 
              200 OK

              HTTP Headers

              http://www.ultrawebsitehosting.com/hosting-dedicated.php


              301 Moved Permanently

              | Status: | 301 Moved Permanently |
              | Code: | 301 |
              | Server: | UltraSpeed Hosting by UltraWebHosting.com |
              | Date: | Sun, 03 Apr 2016 23:42:41 GMT |
              | Content-Type: | text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 |
              | Content-Length: | 258 |
              | Connection: | close |
              | Location: | https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers/ |

              https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers/


              301 Moved Permanently

              | Status: | 301 Moved Permanently |
              | Code: | 301 |
              | Server: | UltraSpeed Hosting by UltraWebHosting.com |
              | Date: | Sun, 03 Apr 2016 23:42:47 GMT |
              | Content-Type: | text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 |
              | Content-Length: | 257 |
              | Connection: | close |
              | Location: | https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers |
              | X-Cache: | HIT from Backend |

              https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers


              200 OK

              | Status: | 200 OK |
              | Code: | 200 |
              | Server: | UltraSpeed Hosting by UltraWebHosting.com |
              | Date: | Sun, 03 Apr 2016 23:42:48 GMT |
              | Content-Type: | text/html |
              | Content-Length: | 40741 |
              | Connection: | close |
              | Vary: | Accept-Encoding |
              | Last-Modified: | Fri, 01 Apr 2016 02:03:57 GMT |
              | Access-Control-Allow-Origin: | * |
              | X-Cache: | HIT from Backend |
              | Accept-Ranges: | bytes |

              Features

              This Redirect Checker supports several features like:

              • · Select different User Agents like
                   · Desktop-Browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox,...)
                   · Mobile Devices (IPad, Iphone, Android, Windows Phone, Kindle, Nokia...
                   · Search Engine Bots (GoogleBot, Google Mobile Bot, Yandex, BingBot, Baidu, Yahoo Slurp, Naver,...
              • · checking 302 and 301 redirects
              • · supports & checks https redirects
              • · checks meta refresh redirects
              • · analysis of common javascript redirects
              • · check and show redirect chains
              • · check http headers like Status Code, X-Robots-Tag, Rel Canonical Header Tag "Link:"
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              • BlueprintMarketing
                BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 4, 2016, 12:10 AM Apr 3, 2016, 7:28 PM

                I did not show what the PA was when I dropped the /

                its 0 but when I add it is PA 28 see & try it.

                Video of what I'm saying http://cl.ly/faXF

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                • BlueprintMarketing
                  BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 7:23 PM Apr 3, 2016, 7:20 PM

                  The 301 has to point to the / it shows PA

                  I'm about to grab dinner when I get back I will do it deep crawl your site and I'll find out the problem for you because it's definitely not a hard issue to figure out and I will dedicate some time to find out.

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                  • serverleap
                    serverleap @BlueprintMarketing last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 7:10 PM Apr 3, 2016, 7:10 PM

                    The 301 redirect has existed for 4 months and a day. Why has it not assumed PR with Moz?

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                    • BlueprintMarketing
                      BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 7:05 PM Apr 3, 2016, 7:05 PM

                      It's because there are back links pointing to the URLs that you redirected to dedicated servers for instance. The others have no back links therefore they do not have any page rank.

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                      • serverleap
                        serverleap @BlueprintMarketing last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 7:02 PM Apr 3, 2016, 7:02 PM

                        The original question is if it is a factor for the trialing slash to not exist as I am seeing Moz PRs of 1 on these pages after four months.

                        I appreciate all the rewrites but this is all common knowledge to me.

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                        • BlueprintMarketing
                          BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 6:59 PM Apr 3, 2016, 6:59 PM

                          Was not able to fix the problem? If not you may want to force a / with a /?$  that way it will only be forced if needed.

                          Hope that helps, Tom

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                          • serverleap
                            serverleap last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 6:56 AM Apr 3, 2016, 6:56 AM

                            Hello Thomas,

                            Thank you for your time.

                            Redirect 301 /hosting-dedicated.php https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers

                            has been set since 01/02/16 via .htaccess

                            I have removed the duplicate access-control as one was arbitrating font extensions and the other everything.

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                            • BlueprintMarketing
                              BlueprintMarketing @BlueprintMarketing last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 5:32 AM Apr 3, 2016, 5:25 AM

                              Try //Rewrite to www

                              Options +FollowSymLinks

                              RewriteEngine on

                              RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ultrawebhosting.com[nc]

                              RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ultrawebhosting.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

                              //301 Redirect Old File

                              Redirect 301 .php /

                              See http://www.askapache.info//2.3/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch

                              Sorry for all the duplicate stuff everything posts that way is annoying sorry about that. Nevertheless, you have to remove the PHP from your site. And redirect it correctly.

                              Let me know if that helps,

                              See below

                              |

                              Purpose

                              |

                              Example formatting

                              Include an entire directory but nothing beneath it

                              |

                              http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/

                              ^/shop/?$

                              Include all subdirectories

                              |

                              http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/*

                              ^/shop/.*

                              Include a single file

                              |

                              http://www.yourdomain.com/shop.php

                              ^/shop.php

                              Include any file of a specific type

                              |

                              ^/shop/.*.php – any php file

                              |

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                              • BlueprintMarketing
                                BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 5:22 AM Apr 3, 2016, 5:21 AM

                                Look at this http://cl.ly/faXF

                                https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/comparisons?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultrawebhosting.com%2Fdedicated-servers

                                compare with

                                https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/comparisons?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultrawebhosting.com%2Fhosting-dedicated.php

                                It is still showing up with .php

                                https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/hosting-dedicated.php needs to 301 to

                                https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers/

                                Its the .php &  different link that has back links to it that is not properly pointing to it. Check

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                                • BlueprintMarketing
                                  BlueprintMarketing last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 5:09 AM Apr 3, 2016, 5:08 AM

                                  You have 2

                                  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

                                  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

                                  Server: UltraSpeed Hosting by UltraWebHosting.com

                                  Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 08:06:06 GMT

                                  Content-Type: text/html

                                  Content-Length: 34133

                                  Connection: keep-alive

                                  Vary: Accept-Encoding

                                  Last-Modified: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 05:37:53 GMT

                                  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

                                  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

                                  X-Cache: HIT from Backend

                                  Accept-Ranges: bytes

                                  Intro to HTTP

                                  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

                                  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

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                                  • BlueprintMarketing
                                    BlueprintMarketing @serverleap last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 5:05 AM Apr 3, 2016, 5:05 AM

                                    thank you for providing me with that URL I will take a look right now

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                                    • serverleap
                                      serverleap last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 4:25 AM Apr 3, 2016, 4:24 AM

                                      Unfortunately this does not quite answer the question. The structure is by design but I am having my second thoughts after reviewing Moz and seeing this occurrence. Why are all sub-directories which do not end with / have a moz trust of 1? This even occurs here in the community forum. When the DA is 56 and the pages have been around for four months and are all linked from the homepage shouldn't they have a PA? Is the lack of a trailing slash a factor?

                                      https://www.ultrawebhosting.com

                                      Ex:
                                      https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/about
                                      https://www.ultrawebhosting.com/dedicated-servers

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                                      • BlueprintMarketing
                                        BlueprintMarketing last edited by Apr 3, 2016, 3:37 AM Apr 3, 2016, 3:34 AM

                                        Are your subpages subdomains? Or subfolders? I'm going to assume they are subfolders.

                                        If you're domain authority changes because of your page, that would be the only thing that would make me think you're talking about a subdomain.

                                        PA 63 & DA 56 your site will be crawled quickly because it has decent domain authority just because your homepage has high page authority does not mean the rest of the site will.

                                        It is not unusual for a brand-new page to have little page authority you can check if your forward slash "/" is being forced use screaming frog, redirect mapper, or https://varvy.com/tools/redirects/

                                        You can then force a "/"  or prevent one depending on what you find. Using regex

                                        Name: Redirect my contact page
                                        Domain: www.domain.com
                                        Source: ^/old-path/contact-us/?$
                                        Destination: /new-path/contact-us/
                                        Redirect type: 301 Permanent

                                        • This Redirect Rule will match a URL of http://www.domain.com/old-path/contact-us -or- http://www.domain.com/old-path/contact-us/
                                        • The variation is because of the Regex Syntax “/?$”
                                        • The Question Mark “?” makes the Trailing slash Optional
                                        • It will also only match the Source if it Starts with a “/” (note the carrot “^” ), or ends with either “s” or “/” (note the ending “$” )

                                        https://wpengine.com/support/regex/

                                        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16657152/matching-a-forward-slash-with-a-regex

                                        This depends on your server, and what language are using so, I strongly suggest you use tool to verify your changes before making them.

                                        https://regex101.com/r/oK8xL9/1

                                        http://www.regexpal.com/

                                        I hope this helps,

                                        Tom

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                                          Hi, i am in the process of setting up a business directory site that will be used in a number of cities, though i am initially launching with only one city. My question is, what is the best URL structure to use for the site and should i start using this URL structure from day one? At the moment i am using www.mysite.com.au as my primary website where it contains all listings for the the one initial launch city. Though to plan for the future i was considering this URL structure: www.mysite.com.au/cityname so for example, if i launch in the city Sydney initially then all website traffic that goes to www.mysite.com.au would simply be redirected (302 temp redirect?) to www.mysite.com.au/sydney. When i expand to other cities www.mysite.com.au would simply be a "select your city" screen that then redirects to the city of choice (similar to www.groupon.com page). How would doing a 302 redirect from www.mysite.com.au to www.mysite.com.au/city impact on SEO for the initial launch? Or should i just place this on the root domain since no other cities exist at the moment?

                                          Web Design | Jun 19, 2012, 5:32 PM | adamkirk
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                                        • petewinter

                                          Missing Meta Description Tag - Wordpress Tag

                                          I am going through my crawl diagonostics issues and I have lots of "Missing Meta Description Tags". However when I look at the url's they are Wordpress Tags, which do not have a meta description. Shall I just ignore these errors or should I find a way to add a meta description? Is it important?

                                          Web Design | May 11, 2013, 2:14 PM | petewinter
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