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Sorry to hear of your woes. Depending on the structure of the URLS you could create some simple pattern matches rules within .htaccess? If you could a few dozen rules could handle many thousands of redirects. If there isn't any easily identifiable pattern to match then a DB will, indeed, be your best option. One of the web devs I used to work with  (who was considerably smarter than me) faced a similar issue (with a 'mere' 10k+ redirects) and used some Ruby on Rails middleware as a redirector: This may have been the solution he used: https://github.com/vigetlabs/redirector I hope that helps. I hope you're able to get this sorted without too much pain. Good Luck!

Hello and welcome aboard! It's working here, (with hurl.it and others - and I can see the actual page content as you'd expect). I can also crawl it within MOZ: "Accessible to Search Engines"  - CHECK Could this just be a temporary issue with your web host or perhaps an issue where you are/were connected where you attempted the crawl?FYI: Crawl results show all your pages with 200 status (apart from one 301). All is well

Glad you found the culprit. I was going to mention that this was probably it. If Googlebot sees noindex anywhere on the page it can cause the whole page to be deindexed. Sometimes it's really tricky to find as well.

While I do often look at Domain Authority, I see a LOT of cases where DA doesn't tell the whole story. DA is Moz's best replication of PageRank. But, because no one outside of Google knows how they calculate PageRank, it's not always going to be equivalent. There are a lot more things that could be done for this site, especially in terms of on-page SEO. The home page title tag is "Home | Brand" It's quite important to have some keywords in the title tag. Similarly, take a look at the above the fold content of the home page. I see an image (logo), followed by some navigational buttons and then the most important text on the page says: Real Experience. Practical Solutions. When Decisions Matter. Below that are a few buttons that do actually contain some keywords. My point is that there is very little on your home page that gives Google the context of what you want this site to rank for. I am betting that changing the title tag and writing some above the fold text that concisely explains what the firm offers and also contains a few keywords would make a difference. Those were just a few things I saw on a quick look. It might be worthwhile to do a thorough site quality audit as a next move. On-site changes can really help move the needle.

Thanks Greg & Marie, The site in question was acquired a few months' ago a fairly old site on a WP engine and had a couple of tech issues at the start but they were fixed and seemingly all was back to normal. I have since gone on and disavowed some poor backlinks and also fixed some 'Missing Author Missing Updated' issues that were popping up on GSC No crawl errors and no Manual Actions showing up, hoping it is just a temporary blip.

Can I clarify a few things Andy, Firstly this is a sub-category page im talking about not a product, all our products are myurl.co.uk/product.html "https://www.thisismyurl.co.uk/ > spacehoppers > special-spacehopper - this is a pretty easy fix and something I would recommend on all eccomerce sites" Is this a suggestion to remove the /product/ section? Rich snippets are a later planned project

No problem

Ok, so, to clear the topic. It CAN matter, the keyword is "can", specifically for local content. The IP is one of many-many things, which is assessed by google for rankings, but far not the most important one. Here is my recommendation: If you are going to use completely different website with different tld for german version, like website.de and now you have website.nl, then yes, it might make sense to have separate hosting package and server in germany. Yet, you'd need to use hreflangs anyway, saying that it's the same company and website, just in different languages. Also you'd specify that in your GSC. That directly tells google what website is for what country. Therefore there wouldn't be any confusion on Google's side. Now, here is another example. Let's say you are in Holland, content on the website has content about Holland and Germany, you have website.com domain (neutral, not .nl or .de), then Google maybe kinda confused in terms of where to rank you and look at IP. Hope this makes sense.

A quality site tends to: Have quality, unique content that targets services, service areas, and has accurate meta data Adhere to mobile friendly guidelines Have good site speed Keep in mind that Google Penguin will penalize you if you have spammy links, so link building must be legitimate, too (and this is what helps DA and PA).

Yes, I am aware of the fact, that OSE lags behind Google. But I don't see the reason why Google ranks one page higher than the other...

Hello, okay so if you were going to set a canonical I'd set it on DE as you're redirecting the traffic to that page anyway. The schema You can declare the language and to a degree target country using markup which can aid in understanding of your site with search engines etc. Sorry just saw the edit, yes i can image structuring your site that way will do the job too and avoid the whole issue. Hope that helps. Seems like you some what resolved it your self

About three different homepages: This is my reasoning: Wordpress based website uses index.php as a home page if you use "latest posts" as your home page, Even index.php is not displayed in the url address bar. Does that mean WP sites always have 2 homepages? I have removed index.htm at the moment, but I see that as a problem as I am losing PA value for that page. Zee: So it sounds like you should create a "dynamic" front page (this link should help you: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page). If for some reason you are unable to remove both duplicate homepages, I'd say deprecate one and 301 redirect it to your main homepage, and implement a rel=canonical tag from the duplicated homepage to your main one (e.g. example.com/index.php -301-> example.com) I can see that this is a bit messy.. I did this as I wanted to preserve original htm based site URL's. Are you saying that search engines see www.example.com/dir1/dir2/page.htm and www.example.com/dir1/dir2/page as identical URL's. Zee: I can't say for sure, without seeing your site, but if they're indexed (discoverable by search engine crawlers), you could definitely be penalized. If your .htm pages have built up link equity, you'll need to 301 redirect them to their corresponding pages With my old htm based website I had too many subdirectories. I have removed some of the subs to make URLs shorter and used 301 redirects in .htaccess file. I probably should have removed .htm appendixes as well at this stage, but I did not. Is there a point to do 301 redirects again? 90% of my pages have been 301 redirected as I have removed some of the old subdirectories. Are you saying that I should again 301 redirect my newly 301 redirected pages? Zee: No, that'll result in a 301 redirect chain--you should ALWAYS 301 redirect to whatever the most appropriate, final destination is (think of 301 redirects as nonstop flights, never layovers). If I 301 redirect A --> B, but then B needs to be redirected as B --> C, you must update A's to reflect this as well, A --> C, to avoid a redirect chain. I would like to use example.com as my home page only, I am just trying to transfer PA value of my index.htm page to example.com. Not sure how to do this. Zee: You may want to canonical this one, in that case (especially if you can confirm that these pages present the same information)--you can implement a rel=canonical on your .htm homepage that points back to your main homepage.

thanks mate!

Before you get in a muddle as your self this: Are the giving value? If they are service a purpose and their is a variation that does the same and users are finding them helpful why not! If they are just PPC landing pages with variations yes a canonical maybe helpful.  Mostly it will come do to how much value do they give to your user? Obviously there is an expectation and if they're are literally the same but (e.g.) with a different colour font then ignore this question! There is a lot of duplicate content on the internet so it's not the worst problem to have, i hope that i've at least helped give a bit of relief!  All the best.

Sounds like solid and wise advice. Thank you!

Hi Samantha, We're experiencing the same issue with a .digital TLD, where the domain authority remains 1. Do you have any indication of what the timeframe could be for adding more TLD's to Moz Pro and the Site Explorer? Thanks in advance!

Hello, Maybe someone has an idea? So my main site now is website.com and if i would make my main (homepage) website.com/keyword. Would that have an effect? What risks are there?

To add on to what's already been said, consider investing in keyword tools, whether that's AdWords or even using MozPro. That way, you can research keyword volume for topics that you're targeting on your website and see how often they're actually searched. Additionally, it would be wise to blog frequently and create an authoritative voice in the community. Target long-tailed keywords and set up an FAQ (which you can later build out by posting a blog on each question in addition to the short answer featured in the FAQ). Since you're targeting millennials, having a social media presence and considering an email newsletter are other strategies that will help YOU nurture your relationships with your users.

The safest and quickest option would be the 301 redirect. For the cases when that can't be done, there is the canonical option. And of course,  make sure that index.php is out of the sitemap. Hope it helps. GR.