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    • D.J.Hanchett
      D.J.Hanchett last edited by

      On or about 12/1/17 a massive amount of my site's pages were deindexed. I have done the following:

      • Ensured all pages are "index,follow"
      • Ensured there are no manual penalites
      • Ensured the sitemap correlates to all the pages
      • Resubmitted to Google
      • ALL pages are gone from Bing as well

      In the new SC interface, there are 661 pages that are Excluded with 252 being "Crawled - currently not indexed: The page was crawled by Google, but not indexed. It may or may not be indexed in the future; no need to resubmit this URL for crawling." What in the world does this mean and how the heck do I fix this. This is CRITICAL. Please help!

      The url is https://www.hkqpc.com

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      • BlueprintMarketing
        BlueprintMarketing last edited by

        the report was run prior canonical directives

        Anytime remember to noindex your robots.txt

        https://yoast.com/x-robots-tag-play/

        There are cases in which the robots.txt file itself might show up in search results. By using an alteration of the previous method, you can prevent this from happening to your website:

         <filesmatch "robots.txt"="">Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"</filesmatch> 
        
        **And in Nginx:** 
        
        location = robots.txt {
            add_header  X-Robots-Tag "noindex";
        }
        
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        • D.J.Hanchett
          D.J.Hanchett last edited by

          Looking at the first report, "Redirect Chains"..  As I understand the table, these are correct..

          Column A is the page (source) with the redirecting link
          Column B is the link that is redirecting (http://www.hkqlaw.com)
          Column C shows 2 redirects happening
          Column I shows the first redirect (http://www.hkqlaw.com -> http://www.hkqpc.com) (non ssl version)
          Column N shows the second redirect (http://www.hkqpc.com -> https://www.hkqpc.com) (ssl version)

          The original link (hkqlaw.com) is a link in the footer of our news section so is common on those pages which is why it shows so often.  So, like I said, this appears to be correct.

          I added the canonical directives to the pages earlier so perhaps that report was run prior to me doing that?

          Again, thanks so much for your effort in helping me!

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          • D.J.Hanchett
            D.J.Hanchett last edited by

            Now I'm really baffled. I just ran Screaming Frog and don't see any of the redirects or other stats. Which software are you using that is showing this information? I'm trying to replicate it and figure out if there's something, somewhere else doing this.

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            • BlueprintMarketing
              BlueprintMarketing last edited by

              Wow, I got it

              your 301  redirecting a ton of URLs back to the homepage.

              • Redirect chains https://bseo.io/cZW0w0
              • internal URLs https://bseo.io/4sFqUk
              • insecure content https://bseo.io/YDDKGD
              • no canonical https://bseo.io/fWey1Q
              • crawl overview https://bseo.io/Zg6bpM
              • canonical errors https://bseo.io/YtTh7W
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              • D.J.Hanchett
                D.J.Hanchett last edited by

                Ok, canonical is set for each page (and I fixed the // issue).  I used x-robots header to noindex the robots.txt and sitemap.xml files, along with a few other extensions while I was at it.

                I'll get the secured cookie header set after this is resolved.  We don't store any sensitive data via cookies for this site so it's not of immediate concern but still one I'll address.

                EDIT:  The https://www.hkqpc.com/attorney/David-Saba.html/ page no longer exists which was the cause of the errors.  I've redirected that to the appropriate page.

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                • BlueprintMarketing
                  BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                  https://cryptoreport.websecurity.symantec.com/checker/

                  This server cannot be scanned for these vulnerabilities:HeartbleedServer scan unsuccessful. <a>See possible causes.</a>Poodle (TLS)Server scan unsuccessful. See possible causes.BEASTThis server is vulnerable to a BEAST attack. <a>More information.</a>

                  I am sorry I said your IP was  Network solutions when it was 1&1 I still strongly recommend changing hosting companies even though I am German and so is 1&1

                  DNS resolves www.hkqpc.com to 74.208.236.66

                  The SSL certificate used to load resources from https://www.hkqpc.com will be distrusted in M70. Once distrusted, users will be prevented from loading these resources. See https://g.co/chrome/symantecpkicerts for more information.

                  Look: https://cl.ly/pCY5

                  Look: https://cl.ly/pAKa

                  symantec  SSL certificates are now owned by DigiCert

                  <big>https://www.digicert.com/help/</big>

                  https://www.dareboost.com/en/report/5a70b33e0cf28f017576367f

                  The Set-Cookie HTTP header can be configured with your Apache server. Make sure that the mod_headers module is enabled. Then, you can specify the header (in your .htaccess file, for example). Here is an example:  <ifmodule mod_headers.c=""># only for Apache > 2.2.4: Header edit Set-Cookie ^(.*)$ $1;HttpOnly;Secure  # lower versions: Header set Set-Cookie HttpOnly;Secure</ifmodule>

                  1. robots.txt file inside of the SERPS big photo https://i.imgur.com/cJeDR9t.png
                  2. XML sitemap inside of SERPS should be no indexed big photo https://i.imgur.com/tlx5jc7.png

                  Double forward slashes after verdicts the same page without double forward slashes you need to add rel canonical tags zero canonical's on any page whatsoever.

                  • https://www.hkqpc.com/news/verdicts//hkq-attorneys-win-carbon-county-real-estate-case/
                  • https://www.hkqpc.com/news/verdicts/hkq-attorneys-win-carbon-county-real-estate-case/

                  The URLs above need a rel=canonical tag I have created an example below for you. For the page without the double forward slashes, and this tells Google the one you'd prefer to have indexed besides it keeps the query string pages and junk pages out of Google's index. Please see the resources below and add them to your website  because I do not know what type of CMS you're using I cannot recommend a plug-in to do it but if you were using something like WordPress it would be automatically done by something like Yoast WordPress SEO for the site that you are using it may be a wise move to move to something like WordPress it is a solid platform for a site that size and makes things a lot easier for you to implement change across the entire site quickly.

                  • https://moz.com/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not
                  • https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/
                  • https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

                  You need to add a canonical

                  • Bigger photo of problem https://i.imgur.com/1qMMPSM.png
                  • this page https://www.hkqpc.com/attorney/David-Saba.html/
                  • Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /homepages/43/d238880598/htdocs/classes/class.attorneys.php on line 38
                  • Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/43/d238880598/htdocs/headers/attorney.php on line 15
                  • ** FIx for this**
                  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14806959/how-to-fix-creating-default-object-from-empty-value-warning-in-php
                  • http://thisinterestsme.com/invalid-argument-supplied-for-foreach/

                  You have

                  Heartbleed Vulnerability

                  An unknown error occurred while scanning for the Heartbleed Bug.

                  1qMMPSM.png tlx5jc7.png cJeDR9t.png

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                  • D.J.Hanchett
                    D.J.Hanchett last edited by

                    Thanks for the great feedback!  The hkqlaw.com url simply forwards (301) to hkqpc.com.  The IP address you have is for hkqlaw.com which is registered through Network Solutions, but hosting of hkqpc.com is on 1and1.com hosting.  Also, the timeout error you're getting is because there is no SSL cert for hkqlaw.com, again, it's just forwarded to hkqpc.com (which does have an SSL attached to it).  As far as SC, everything is setup to index hkqpc.com.

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                    • BlueprintMarketing
                      BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                      Right now I cannot get that site to load on my browser, and when I used https://tools.pingdom.com it was unable to load as well you could be having some serious server problems, and that could be causing the issue although I was getting it to run through screaming frog which is surprising.

                      This is a zip file of your screen frog results this will show if there are any no index pages which I found none of it looks to me like you have a server issue. Zip file: http://bseo.io/BXYpZh

                      I checked your site for malware using https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.hkqlaw.com/ ( please understand this only check the homepage and a handful of others) and found none though when I checked your IP address I noticed a lot of ransomware information tied directly to your IP

                      https://ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch/ip/205.178.189.131/

                      Here is a large screenshot of when I tried to browse your website: https://i.imgur.com/OzcLhbx.png

                      Here is Pingdom ( remember to test on something outside of your local computer because you have caching and other things that could give you incorrect results.)

                      https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/bd6d52/https://www.hkqlaw.com/

                      in my experience network solutions, hosting is terrible I would strongly suggest doing two things.

                      Get a better hosting company for your site.

                      A good host that is not too expensive is and also managed is liquid Web, cloudways, rack space, pairnic, you can also build out your own system on non-managed hosting like Linode, digital ocean, AWS, Google cloud, Microsoft Azure if you want a high-quality, inexpensive manage host that offers more than one back and like the ones I've listed above https://www.cloudways.com/en/  will host anything and manage it, and you can use the backends provided before this.  If you want what I think is the best and price is not a big deal considering you're not running WordPress https://armor.com is my preferred hosting company. Otherwise, cloudways or liquid Web would be where I would host your site.

                      Considering you already have an IP address attached to ransomware and you're using hosting company that will not be beneficial to you in security terms. I would add a web application firewall/reverse proxy you can do that with https://sucuri.net/website-firewall/  https://incapsula.com  https://fastly.com and if you want most basic and least secure but better than what you have https://cloudflare.com

                      At the very least put Cloudflare on their but what I'm seeing is a severe problem coming from your web host and knowing that hosting company I would strongly advise you to move to a better host.

                      I hope this was of help,

                      Thomas

                      OzcLhbx.png

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                      • TimHolmes
                        TimHolmes last edited by

                        Not sure if this is of help to you, I suppose it depends how many pages you are expecting to be indexed, but according to John Mu at Google - Google does not necessarily index all pages.

                        https://www.seroundtable.com/google-index-all-pages-20780.html

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                        • D.J.Hanchett
                          D.J.Hanchett last edited by

                          Not recently. It migrated well over a year ago to HTTPS.

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                          • ThompsonPaul
                            ThompsonPaul last edited by

                            First thing to confirm - did you recently migrate to HTTPS?

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