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You bet, Andrew! Please keep the good questions coming

Try Add lots of optimized content and build backlinks from niche directories and blogs & comments, but don't start spamming just for the sake of links.

I love Robert's advice.  I would also suggest adding some long tail keywords. Finding a church is very personal and I'd guess that lots of your prospects are searching things like "Bible based church" "church with active single group" or "church with great music".  Don't put all your emphasis on generic phrases.

Hi Paul, Thank-you for sharing that.  Question, over the past few weeks we've seen our new domain climb back up into the spot the old domain was at before we made the domain change.  I still haven't added a sitemap of all the old urls to the new google webmaster property for the new domain.  At this point I'm questioning whether I should even do this at all since I'm concerned doing so at this stage may produce some sort of negative result.  I can see the index amount of the old site urls slowly climbing down but there is still a decent amount of them:  https://www.google.com/#q=site:citychurchfamily.org .  Does it still make sense to submit a sitemap of all the old urls at this stage?  If I don't will all the old urls eventually stop being indexed by Google?  Should I remove the old site entirely at citychurchfamily.org but keep my 301 redirects in place on the server?  I appreciate your first response and any help/insight you offer here. Sincerely, Andrew

Hi John, Thank-you for your insight.  Question, what tools did you use to do the quick check on our site?  Was it the screaming from app or something else?  Just want to learn how you did that. I've went ahead and fixed the chained 301 redirect and fixed a number of the 301 redirects that were formerly not working as I initially thought they were. What tools would you recommend to me for creating the static xml sitemap and do I need to do this for all the old pages on the site or just the ones with more traffic? Also, once the static xml sitemap is created do I submit it on the new domain or the old domain?  Probably a beginner type question here but just wanted to make sure Finally, the change of address via google webmaster console happened for these domains:  http://www.citychurchfamily.org/ and this:  https://www.citychurchfamily.org/ Should I do the change of address for both the non-www versions as well? Your help/insight is greatly appreciated.

Andrew, Your canonical needs to exist - so for the page you mentioned you need to update the url to the one with the trailing slash. In fact - for all pages on your site you should check if the canonical exist (Screaming Frog can do miracles here) The issue with the https is a bit different - you should not have both versions (http/https in parallel) - so if your https certificate is ok you should put your site in https & redirect the http version to https This can be done by adding these lines to your htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} If you switch to https - you must make sure that all the resources you call on a page are also on HTTPS - if not, users could get a security warning. There is an article on how to migrate site to HTTPS on Yoast: https://yoast.com/move-website-https-ssl/ If your site is on https - your canonicals need to be in https as well. A tool like Screaming Frog can help you to check that both (https & canonicals are ok) - it's not free - but certainly worth the investment. Hope this helps - don't hesitate to ask if it's not clear Dirk