Missing trailing slash in URL on subpages resulting in Moz PA of 1

serverleap

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.

BlueprintMarketing

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

serverleap

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.

BlueprintMarketing

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.

serverleap

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

BlueprintMarketing

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.

BlueprintMarketing

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

BlueprintMarketing

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

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

301 Moved Permanently

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

200 OK

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serverleap

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

<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>

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BlueprintMarketing

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]

serverleap

The redirect checker website is excellent. Great find!

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