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    • ecrmeuro
      ecrmeuro last edited by

      Hi,I have a website www.contractor-accounts.co.uk that has an .htaccess file that strips .php and forces a closing brace /. The site is now over 6 months old and still has a very low ranking with MOZ also rating the site as DA/PA = 1 which seems to indicate some sort of issue with the website.  Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why this site is ranking poorly as much of the onpage SEO has been completed to a level of 90%+ for specific keyterms so I'm probably either looking at routing of the framework of so other technical SEO issues possibly?

      Any help much apreciated...

      <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""><ifmodule mod_negotiation.c="">Options -MultiViews</ifmodule>

      RewriteEngine On

      # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
          # RewriteRule ^(.)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^.]+$
           RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
         
          # Redirect non-WWW to WWW...
           RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^contractor-accounts.co.uk [NC]
           RewriteRule ^(.
      )$ http://www.contractor-accounts.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

      # Handle Front Controller...
           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
           RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]</ifmodule>

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      • seanginnaw
        seanginnaw last edited by

        This does seem a bit odd. but the domain also doesn't have any inbound links which is what I believe is one of the main things that Moz tool picks up. Perhaps you should build a couple of inbound links to the domain and see what happens?

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