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I have not already 301'd the site to https. But either url works since I turned on the ssl at my host.

I will check into the Cloudflare.

So you recommend just going forward with the https switch even though I have not done all the things on the checklist?

I may have made a mess for myself. I turned on the ssl a couple of weeks ago (2-3) but didn't do the other things first. Should i remove the ssl from my site until I go through the checklist? I am starting to panic, hoping i have not gotten myself into big trouble.

My internal links, ads, canonical urls all still use http.

Thank you

Thanks James. I don't have a CMS. My pages are all hand coded html pages. (would dearly love to switch to a cms in the future since i have over 100 pages). Does your advice change in anyway?

If I have 4 versions of my site

http://www
http://
https://www
https://

What is the best way to redirect without losing seo positions? i have been mainly using http://www but have recently added my ssl so https works also. I heard at Moz Con that I should get the https working.

All of my marketing and ads are going to http://www

301 redirect 3 of them? Which 3? If https is becoming important, should that be my main url? will it hurt my seo to switch?

Thank you so much in advance!

I am planning my seo project using Moz tools. I am finding keywords that are close to each other. What is the best way to optimize? If I made a page for each of the close words, it would pretty much be duplicate content.

Is it best to go ahead and make a page for each and try to make content a bit different? How different does it have to be?

Or, would i try to use the different versions of the keyword on one good page.

Thank you!

I am using bootstrap 3 and am wondering if moving to bootstrap 4 would be beneficial as far as seo. Any advice?

Thank you!

Moz reports show duplicate content for my www.domain.com and www.domain.com/default.html

How do I format the canonical ref to put on the default.html page?

I am moving a site with great SEO and tons of pages to a new platform. Page names will all be different because they will not have the .html ending and names will change. It is on a system that does not support .htaccess.

So, I don't have a way to do 301 redirects.

How can I keep my competitive status?

Thank you!!

I am showing a duplicate content error in moz. I have site.com and site.com/default.html

How can I fix that? Should I use a canonical tag? If so, how would i do that?

No, I put it on the .htaccess on the new site. I had 301'd the whole old site in my domain name manager. Maybe I should not do that so I can put an .htaccess file right on the old domain?

Actually, I tried that, and the result is still

Old URL: "www.myoldsite.com/my-page/"
New URL: "www.mynewsite.com/404.html

Yes, that helps, thank you!

Can I use this option and somehow direct all traffic from old site to my new home page? I tried this and if someone was trying to find a specific page on the old site they get a 404 on the new.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^OLDSITE.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.OLDSITE.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://NEWSITE/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

I had 2 websites. I decided not to maintain one of them and set it to 301 to my main website. However, i see people getting 404 errors when they land on my main website but with a page name from the old site. How can I set things so that anyone who tries to go to the old site goes to my homepage of my main site?

http://siteA.com

http://oldsiteB.com/oldpagename sends them to http://siteA.com//oldpagename = 404  - I want them to go directly to homepage on siteA.

Do I need to have links to all of these landing pages? I'd rather not if I don't have to

• I love the keyword tool for giving me direction and helping to prioritize. My question:

  Once I have the prioritized keywords, do you recommend having a page for each of the top keywords, using the keyword as the page name? Or is it better to sprinkle the keywords into existing pages?

  Thank you.

I love the keyword tool for giving me direction and helping to prioritize. My question:

Once I have the prioritized keywords, do you recommend having a page for each of the top keywords, using the keyword as the page name? Or is it better to sprinkle the keywords into existing pages?

Thank you.

The reason is that I need to update my website and that seems like an easy way to do it. My business partner can easily add content once I am finished. I do not want to use wordpress or joomla. I like that i can still keep the .html on my pages. The e-commerce part of it is so fabulously easy.