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I have the same issue and would like to locate an excellent SEO that can assist with this issue.  MOZ does not make recommendations but would love to hear from others who may have worked with someone who is familiar with, and works with Shopify

Look at the bright side, at least it's an easy fix.

I can't think of any reason it wouldn't be safe to alter those redirects after a month. You may want to resubmit your sitemap in Webmaster Tools to alert Google, but it should be totally safe. I'm afraid I can't recommend a plugin or regular expression—those are both well outside my expertise. As an agency SEO, I placed 301s in .htaccess or had a dev do it for me.

Yes correct, I was talking from a purely SEO perspective

this is simple. rather that test what the domain name is, test what it is not. use the logic, if not my-preferred-domainname then redirect to my-preferred-domainname.

First, make sure you have the proper canonical URLs set up in your theme. You can use a good SEO plugin (Yoast, All-in-One SEO) or add it yourself. Second, go into Google Webmaster Tools and add "replytocom" to your URL Paramaters (Crawl > URL Parameters). Third, monitor the amount of those URLs in Google's index by doing the following Google search: site:yourdomain.com replytocom Hope that helps! Tom

Hi Jimmy, It seems that the page is not indexed yet. I fetched the page again and this time it said succesful. Now the URL is tagged to index, so i will notice tomorrow if the page is getting indexed. Thank you very much for your help! Greetings Bob

Hi there, Do you have an example of which pages use this mobile menu? From the testing I did, I could not get the menu that uses that code. It would be beneficial to ask your developers if this code is still in use (I would describe it as: the drop down menu which has an ID of "yt-mobilemen") If this menu is no longer in use I would remove it as it is affecting your keyword density and does not look very natural, which will not be seen positively by Google, due to it being part of a dropdown, there is no association of it being part of the navigation, so to Google it just looks like a big block of keywords. The mobile menu I witnessed came in from the left, was very nice and uses the same code as the full size one so as not to cause duplications, this is the preferred method, so if you are able to get rid of the big block of text, then go for it! Be aware that initially it will be seen as a block of text disappearing, so would be helpful to add some more substantial text to your pages to compensate Kind Regards Jimmy

thanks Takeshi really useful reply, but i would like to advise Eric, that he should not need to assign category canonical link tag in product pages as product has its own somehow authority. If want to prioritize category page then you need to improve overall on-site with regard to increase more importance than product page for that specific search terms or phrases.

Hi Craig, If the keyword appears twice in the url it should be acceptable. What I normally do is to look at the url & judge if it still looks "natural" (with "natural" off course is quite subjective). If it looks stuffed, I change, if not I keep it. Check the 'stuffed' examples here: http://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/2014/09/09/url-keyword-stuffing-spam-filtering/ Sorry I cannot be more specific, it's a bit of a grey area. Dirk

Thanks. I fetched both the main page and made a slight tweak to the robots and resubmitted last night. It looks like it is making a bit of progress. There is nothing else blocking the pages. We did add a new sitemap when we first launched the pages with no warnings. I did notice yesterday that we had approx 268 broken links that went to 404 pages in WMT in this specific sub-folder. The discovery of the broken link-404 pages by Google seems to be around the same time Google stopped crawling this section of the site. We took care of the broken links this morning. Thanks for the help!

If google is happy with your site in its mobile friendly testing tool https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ Then i would think google would be pleased enough to not hurt your rankings, also if you see the 'mobile-friendly' label next to your site on a mobile device would be another indication. Although i would think having your site suitable for as many many devices as possible would improve your user experience and have further positive effects on CTR'S, Bounce rates etc Hope this helps, James

Moosa, Dirk- Thank you both. B.

Hi Craig, In general - the structure looks ok - just wondering how you going to manage to keep 1mio products a reasonable number of clicks from the homepage. rgds Dirk

Thanks everyone this is really helpful!

Hi Dirk, perfect, thanks a lot for clarifying. All the best. Sam

.htacces is supposed to be in the root. It is a server file not a CMS file.

Hi Martin, This should not have an impact. Google is focussed on providing the best user experience, providing relevant content to its visitors, adapted to the device they are using & served in an efficient way (performance). How you organise your technical architecture behind it should have no importance. You would certainly not be the first to have a website running on different servers for different parts of the site. Typical example is a shop using Magento or some other e-commerce application on 1 host, and a blog on Wordpress on another host. That said - there are still some points you need to take into consideration: 1. Server location - while probably not as important as it's used to - it's probably better to keep the location closer to your main audience (mainly because it can have an impact on performance. Quote from http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.es/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html on location as ranking factor Server location (through the IP address of the server) is frequently near your users. However, some websites use distributed content delivery networks (CDNs) or are hosted in a country with better webserver infrastructure, so we try not to rely on the server location alone. If both servers are in the same location it should not be a problem. 2. You might consider to shift the subdomain to a directory as Google seem to prefer all content on one subdomain. You might want to check this WBF on subdomains vs directories: https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday Even when using a directory - it is still possible to use two different servers. Hope this helps, Dirk

I am almost 100% sure it is spam attack of your competitors. Actually you should better quickly disable those links or you can be penalized by Google

Hello, If you share the site we can have a look and let you know. If you set the redirects to be 301 in Magento then they're probably 301s. However, Moz may be giving you data from their last crawl, or they may be giving you data about different URLs, other than the ones you're redirecting permanently. If you check the http header status with a tool like the one DJOGlobal recommended you'll know for sure. I'm marking this as answered, but if you need more help with this specific issue feel free to respond.