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  • donnieath
    donnieath last edited by Nov 18, 2016, 3:07 PM

    I am not getting docked for these specific errors, but I am getting docked for 1 page has a WWW resolve issue and 1 wrong URL in the sitemap... (SEM Rush) but when I use moz, it's not showing any issues.

    So I have these things set up so far:

    • In .htaccess i have a command that removes the www.
    • 301 redirect from www version to the non www (homepage)
    • canonical on index.html pointing to non www version, I also set up a canonical tag for each page on the site
    • search console with non www, www, https www, https non www all set to non www preference.

    Also, when I fetch the www version in google search console it says it's being 301 redirected to non www version which is basically what I want.Is there anything that i'm missing? These errors on SEM Rush are giving me anxiety lol.

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    • Maslavista
      Maslavista @donnieath last edited by Nov 19, 2016, 5:35 PM Nov 19, 2016, 5:35 PM

      How many pages have your website?

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      • tawnycase
        tawnycase last edited by Nov 18, 2016, 8:44 PM Nov 18, 2016, 8:44 PM

        Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here.

        Unfortunately, I don't know that I'm actually equipped to answer your question. I can speak to how Moz's tools determine duplicate content, but I don't know how you'd go about implementing solutions for errors you're seeing with SEMrush. Sorry about that!

        Hopefully one of our wonderful community members will have more insight than I do. Sorry I couldn't be more help!

        If you do have questions about Moz's tools, feel free to give us a shout at help@moz.com and we'll see what we can do. 🙂

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        • donnieath
          donnieath @Maslavista last edited by Nov 18, 2016, 5:39 PM Nov 18, 2016, 5:39 PM

          That is the jyst of it, I removed some of the 301's when I pasted it here, just because it was long.

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          • donnieath
            donnieath @Maslavista last edited by Nov 18, 2016, 5:37 PM Nov 18, 2016, 5:36 PM

            Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews

            RewriteEngine on
            RewriteBase /

            Remove "www."

            RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.)$ [NC]
            RewriteRule ^(.
            )$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
            RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

            Remove ".html"

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

            Redirect "home" and "index" to document root

            > Here, the expression (home|index) means "home or index"

            RewriteRule ^(home|index)/?$ / [R=301,L]

            Redirect any requests for html files to index

            RewriteRule ^(.+).html index.php?page=$1 [L]

            Rewrite any request for subdirectories to index

            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

            EXPIRES CACHING

            <ifmodule mod_expires.c="">ExpiresActive On
            ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 week"
            ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 week"
            ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 week"
            ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 week"
            ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
            ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
            ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"</ifmodule>

            EXPIRES CACHING

            <ifmodule mod_expires.c="">ExpiresActive On
            ExpiresDefault "access plus 7200 seconds"
            ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 2592000 seconds"
            ExpiresByType application/javascript A2592000
            ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 2592000 seconds"</ifmodule>

            6 month for most static assets

            <ifmodule mod_headers.c=""><filesmatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|gs|ico)$"="">Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1576800, public"</filesmatch></ifmodule>

            Cache-Control Headers

            <ifmodule mod_headers.c=""><filesmatch ".(js)$"="">Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, private"</filesmatch></ifmodule>

            Maslavista 1 Reply Last reply Nov 19, 2016, 5:35 PM Reply Quote 0
            • donnieath
              donnieath @Maslavista last edited by Nov 18, 2016, 5:39 PM Nov 18, 2016, 5:28 PM

              I'll send you a pm...

              -----EDIT nevermind the formatting was really bad over pm.

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              • Maslavista
                Maslavista last edited by Nov 18, 2016, 5:20 PM Nov 18, 2016, 5:20 PM

                Can you post your .htaccess rules here?

                donnieath 3 Replies Last reply Nov 18, 2016, 5:39 PM Reply Quote 0
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