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301 it to the original and noindex it. That should do the trick for both users & google.

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In this case, yes. You shouldn't have content that would be deemed as "duplicate content" by google in your sidebar if it's a sitewide one.

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Hey there. Google doesn't care you're running WP, HTML, Joomla or a standard HTML site. It cares even less if something is in the main page or in the sidebar (as long as it's not a sidebar that's common on each page). If this sidebar is on each page the proposition changes a bit Otherwise - long story short - it doesn't matter!

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Heya! A great tool to "follow" your redirects is http://wheregoes.com/ . Simply insert your url in there and see how/where/from it hops.

Hope this helps

Hey there,

One thing is for sure - js and css files have no value to your site's SEO. If your site is looking good and working well under the new design there's no point in worrying about this.

Good luck!!

Hi there,

Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean by that Why would you redirect them? What exactly are you looking to acieve?

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Hi there,

You forgot the most important thing. You're disallowing a lot of things but not allowing access in the first place.

Allow: /

add this on line 2 of your robots.txt file.

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Have you tested with some brand url's like moz for example? Perhaps it's that website's technical problem and not something relating to your own url.

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You're very welcome! Do feel free to reach out if you need any more help.

301 A 404 can be harmful.

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Hey there,

It's definitely not that good of an idea to re-do the old url's. Have you submitted the site to be reindexed? Make sure you update your sitemap if needed (and/or robots) and reupload these to google. Then wait. Any additional changes might confuse G even more. Make sure to 301 the old pages to the new ones.

If you still need help with the schema code drop me a PM.

Have a great day

Andy

It's unlikely. It may help a bit if your traffic's experience on the site is really good, but otherwise no. Sure, if you now have 100 visits/month and you'll get 1000 more, which have good analytics stats, it may improve your case. But if you're already doing pretty well it won't improve your case too much.

Moz did claim in a few Whiteboard Friday videos that they were able to prove Google does take grammar/spelling into account.

In my opinion, I would also noindex nofollow since these pages don't provide any true value when compared to the main one. I'm actually curious to see what others say here.

Rand did a really good whiteboard friday on this recently -> https://moz.com/blog/rel-canonical it may solve your question.

Have a good day

Hey.

No, it's not a new property. No need in my opinion. Let's see if others see otherwise, but I never do this.

For the first - It won't cause a loop. Just make sure to set all links to https. If you run WP - install a plugin called something like "simply http to https" if you don't have the coding skills or a dev team to handle the migration properly. It's a clean solution.

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No worries. Let me know if you still need help

Can you please include your real URL so we can have a look?

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Well yeah sure...but why not fix it in the first place? Too many redirects are not a good idea

Hey there,

1. Google won't be affected, no worries.

2. I'd recommend moving the whole thing.

3. All you need to do is make sure that all internal links (from / toold posts/categories/etc) will now be set to https so they don't redirect from http to https.

4. GA code remains

5. No. Just tell G to reindex when you're ready.

Good luck!

I agree with you. By "answer query" i meant that people would not go back to ask google the same exact thing, but move on to something else (even if related). Keep building your site up, not necessarily for this link, and you'll increase rankings. It sometimes fluctuates a bit until G sets a fix-ish position for a page. You might see it jump to page 1 in a couple of weeks. We've started working hard a month ago and we keep seeing jumps of 5-10 positions for 5-10 kwds every other week tops.