Welcome to the Q&A Forum

I respect your want to get  this right

“A few days ago, Google indexed hundreds of my directories by mistake (error with plugins/host); my traffic dropped as a consequence.

_ Anyway, I fixed that and submitted a URL removal request. Now just waiting for things to go back to normality.” _

in my opinion, you can see the change happen to the https URLs & you want to be sure that https will not let your unwanted directory back in Google's index.

I think unless you can show me your site better Search & replace will be more comfortable & faster.

Yes, I have used better search & replace many times; it’s a great tool.

Make sure you back up your site before you do a search & replace.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/

I think you should be able to see everything needed and more from this great how-to the person who made it is a friend & they don't just show you how to do this on Kinsta they show you how to use Apache & Nginx as well.

It covers everything you might want to think about managed wordpress hosting if this is something you don't feel comfortable doing.

https://kinsta.com/blog/http-to-https/

I would look at Pagely, Pantheon Servebolt & Kinsta.

If it helps, I am ranked in the top 10 or 11 for assisting people on Moz. Unless you only blocked the HTTP version of your directories, then you will have the same results with https.

• Would you allow me to see the domain?
• Who is your hosting company?

Respectfully,

Tom Zickell

Hi Here you go

• https://moz.com/domain-authority-2.0

• https://moz.com/blog/comprehensive-analysis-domain-authority

• https://moz-static.s3.amazonaws.com/products/landing-pages/announcements/Authority_Scoring_Guide.pdf

• Your site has more DA now than in march when Moz made the change see https://imgur.com/w4kVPnr.png

• Does it look like you started adding links to https://sportsala.com/crictime-hd-score/ in March as well?

• https://imgur.com/GD6XEEU.png

• PS your site redirected me to this & you can see what happened after I clicked your site URL.

• https://imgur.com/dKbRJyI.png

• https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/https/sportsala.com/crictime-hd-score/

• https://labs.sucuri.net/signatures/sitecheck/warning/?index_missing.2

Hope this helps,

Tom

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Good question. In all honesty, I think it's safe to go forward with an HTTPS migration.

A "URL removal request"

A simple move to https two different things that can be done at the same time.

if you have a certain set up please let me know I can give you better instructions on how to completely migrate over to HTTPS. Here are some of the basics below.

• https://www.searchenginejournal.com/https-migration-guide/195103/
• https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http-to-https
• https://gofishdigital.com/steps-in-website-https-migration/

if you're using WordPress

• https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-http-to-https/236969/
• Photograph https://imgur.com/q1RfhhH.jpg

Search & Replace in Files

To begin, search for instances of your domain pointing to HTTP URLs of your site.

Use the regex for **“www” **and without “www” URL cases and search for

http:\/\/(www\.)?yourdomain\.com

always search and replace your database if you have one.

remember to implement redirects

NGINX

Add the following to your Nginx config.

<code class=" language-nginx">server {
    listen 80;
    server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
    return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri;
}</code>

Apache

Add the following to your .htaccess file.

<code class=" language-apacheconf">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]</code>

6. Update your robots.txt File#

Update any hard-coded links or blocking rules you might have in your robots.txt that might still be pointing to HTTP directories or files

• Update your robots.txt file
• Update your disavow file if you have one
• update Google search console

if you want a very quick easy way to implement HTTPS, redirects as well as certificates I recommend Cloudflare The free version should do it.

• https://www.cloudflare.com/

  I hope this helps,
  Tom

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I am happy I could be of help please let me know if there's anything else I can be of assistance with?

HI

Can I ask what platform you are using? If you're using an e-commerce platform like Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc.  There are simple ways of writing code that will do a better job as well as plug-ins that you can purchase and/or use for free.

Or if in the unlikely event you are just running an E-commerce website without a CMS you can still do this via coding.  there is a method no matter what flavor of kosher using rather it be Ruby, PHP NodeJS, etc.

FYI

Google does NOT recommend Using Tag Manager to Implement Schema Markup.

John Mueller from Google advises against using Google Tag Manager to deploy Structured Data and mentions that the ideal solution is to add the structured data directly into the HTML. So ideally process it server-side and pass it via HTML instead of relying on a client-side solution like Javascript.

While this is not the ideal solution, as SEOs we know that we are not always in ideal situations and at times our best bet is to deploy it through a solution like Google Tag Manager. You could also look at deploying it via an Edge Computing Solution like Cloudflare Workers.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/products/cloudflare-workers/

It is less than ideal to use Google tag manager to deploy JSON-LD to websites. It can be done but obviously it's not the best way.

just because it's not on the new search console yet does not mean that Google's structured data markup helper tool is obsolete.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/u/0/

Yes if you want to ad JSON-LD

Use any of the tools here

https://www.schemaapp.com/60-structured-data-tools-create-test-plugins-more/

Convert to GTM

https://saijogeorge.com/json-ld-schema-generator/tag-manager-fix/

You can add basic JSON-LD with

https://www.bounteous.com/insights/2017/03/20/seo-structured-data-recipe-gtm/

I use this to make this example

https://technicalseo.com/tools/schema-markup-generator/

GTM Friendly code

I hope I have been of help,

Tom

Let me know if this was of help or not

All the best,

Tom

One area search engines seem to be gravitating toward is granting strong product verticals with a history of online purchase behavior – a lean toward non-local results.

For many, you now need to be on a mobile device or type “near me” as part of the search query to trigger a map.

Understanding whether you have reached the “near me” need to even compete with national online sellers is important when strategizing and setting expectations.

Google uses the content on the page in conjunction with your search history and or location so all those insurance companies have pages that have content that is more relevant to your search query in Austin because they have the words Austin inside the content.

So if your Google and Amica insurance for liberty mutual are able to index a landing page with words Austin on it and you query it from an ISP within that area you will get the results shown to you. The only other way to get those results is through what Google has already learned about your search habits on the web they know where you are. So they're going to serve content that they think you like or content that you have been to more often.

I hope that makes sense,

Tom

Each one of those companies has a website that is targeted towards Austin. It’s a very big city and a large market google will customize the search for your location. Your ISP may be Comcast, Spectrum, Google Fiber, Verizon, AT&T whatever.

That ISP shares your rough location via your IP address this is picked up on by Google and they give a customized answer for your particular search history as well as your current location rather you’re on a mobile device or at home. Mobile devices are obviously more accurate most of the time because of GPS

See: https://support.google.com/optimize/answer/6283420?hl=en&ref_topic=6283433

SERP Snippets Are ‘

based on the user’s query‘

Keep in mind that there is no guarantee that Google will use the page meta description as the search snippet. The text featured in a Google search snippet is QUERY DEPENDANT and can change depending on the query.

“QUOTE: Keep in mind that we adjust the description based on the user’s query. So if you’re doing a site query and seeing this in your search results for your site that’s not necessarily what a normal user would see when they see a search as well.”   John Mueller 2017

SERP Snippets Are ‘based on the user’s query‘

Keep in mind that there is no guarantee that Google will use the page meta description as the search snippet. The text featured in a Google search snippet is QUERY DEPENDANT and can change depending on the query.

“QUOTE: Keep in mind that we adjust the description based on the user’s query. So if you’re doing a site query and seeing this in your search results for your site that’s not necessarily what a normal user would see when they see a search as well.”   John Mueller 2017

The meta description tag is still important from both from a human and search engine perspective, if used intelligently and properly.

QUOTE: “However** it can affect the way that users see your site in the search results and whether or not they actually click through to your site**. So that’s kind of one one aspect there to keep in mind.”  John Meuller 2017

Example Code

If your page is INFORMATIONAL in nature, you can make it relevant to a valuable query you are focused on, but write it for humans, not just search engines. If the keyword phrase you are optimizing the page for is found in the meta description, you can usually depend on the meta description showing in Google listings. If the keyword in the search query is NOT present on the page, chances are your meta description WON'T show up.

Although meta descriptions should be UNIQUE – be sensible when manually writing unique meta description text that DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PAGE – or you are just giving scrapers free text you are not getting any actual rankings to benefit from.

Google looks at the description but there is a debate whether it actually uses the description tag to rank pages (see tests and observations below). I think they might at some level, or for specific tests, or specific types of pages. From my testing, it is a very weak signal (if any) in INFORMATIONAL SERPs – and this is very reliant on the query. Google certainly indexes meta description for snippet display, not so much for ranking pages, in my observations.

It’s

Tom

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• Let's talk you can call me here?
• https://moz.com/community/users/383525
• On the right side under "Additional Contact Info"

Hi I am happy to cover this with you here is the crawl of https://www.lyntron.com_

| 25,908 | Pages with Duplicate Body |
| 27,326 | Pages with Duplicate Titles |
| 13,117 | Max Fetch Time |
| 24,160 | Thin Pages |
| 6,044 | Failed URLs |
| 1,410 | Duplicate Body Sets |

This will work for 30 days:

https://app.deepcrawl.com/accounts/390/projects/294731/crawls/2338523?token=PSDA8M0vdx3NxM9YE6YSk8tF36P8DSv3uP8NQHA00RRBBztktuHMs5W8I221KEg0b84RqpN0WlAERXUh2w6SbA

PDF: https://bseo.io/l2XVzY

Photo (big): https://imgur.com/FmVJbAU.png

Please let me know you see this I will be happy to help.

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

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Your server is 301 redirecting every page from hellgatelondon.com to the https://iriveramerica.com/ homepage.

This is very bad.

http://www.hellgatelondon.com/underground/single-player-patch-0-6-released

Results of tracking 301 Moved permanently  https://iriveramerica.com/underground/single-player-patch-0-6-released 301 Moved permanently  http://iriveramerica.com 301 Moved permanently  https://iriveramerica.com/ test it here https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/redirected/or here:

https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/redirected/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hellgatelondon.com%2Funderground%2Fsingle-player-patch-0-6-released

Big photo:

https://imgur.com/CbwRTdF.png

To fix this fast

Step 1

First you will need to add your domain that you want to redirect to Cloudflare. Simply signup for a free account and click on “+ Add Site.” Input your domain and click on “Begin Scan.” It may take a minute or two and then click on “Continue Setup.”

Step 2

By default the scan will show you the records of your current domain. You can simply delete everything and simply leave an A name record for both the www version and your primary domain. The IP address is simply the one provided by your current domain registrar. In this case, it was just. Then click on “Continue.”

Step 3

Select the Cloudflare free plan and click “Continue.”

Step 4

You will then need to point your current domain to the Cloudflare nameservers. You can do this at your domain registrar.

Step 5

Under the Crypto menu, select “Flexible” SSL. You will need this to ensure that redirects over HTTPS also work.

Step 6

Under the Page Rules menu click on “Create Page Rule.”

Step 7

You will then want to enter the following pattern:

https://hellgatelondon.com/*

Select “Forwarding URL” and “301 – Permanent Redirect” for the settings, and input the following rule:

https://iriveramerica.com/$1

The /$1 enables the wildcard part to function. Then click on “Save and Deploy.”

he single rule above makes the following work:

• http://www.hellgatelondon.com/ 301 redirects to https://iriveramerica.com
• https://hellgatelondon.com/ 301 redirects to https://iriveramerica.com
• http://hellgatelondon.com/* 301 redirects to https://iriveramerica.com/*
• https://www.hellgatelondon.com/* 301 redirects to https://iriveramerica.com/*

How it works big pic:

https://imgur.com/HplO92M.png

See cited for more help:

https://woorkup.com/free-url-forwarding/

I hope this is was helpful,

Tom

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PS I will run a crawl to check

It is fine to 301 redirect to** "/"** you need to pick forward slash "/" or no forward slash.

• SEE:
• https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html
• https://www.seroundtable.com/google-trailing-slashes-url-24943.html

You should force HTTPS

• http://cardiff.co.uk 301's to http://www.cardiff.co.uk/
• See: https://i.imgur.com/fg34sXR.png
• You should add https
• https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up
• or
• https://www.rapidtables.com/web/tools/redirect-generator.html

Add a SSL cert I would just add cloudflare.com (if you want fast & easy also Free)

• https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/204144518
• https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172286-Configuring-URL-forwarding-or-redirects-with-Cloudflare-Page-Rules

When configuring Page Rules, the Always use HTTPS action is the simplest method to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.  You can also use the Forwarding URL action with a 301 redirect if you need to redirect to another subdomain in addition to forcing HTTPS. For example, a Page Rule match for

**_http://_cardiff.co.uk_/*_**

with a _Forwarding URL _of

**_https://www.cardiff.co.uk/$1_**

https://www.cardiff.co.uk/

ASP.NET

or ASP.NET

<%@ Language="VBScript" %>
<%
' ASP permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "https://www.cardiff.co.uk/"
Response.End
%>

Redirect entire domain from HTTP to HTTPS

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Redirect entire domain from non-www to www and HTTP to HTTPS

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Hope this helps,

Tom

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**I am going to be done by Tomorrow **

Fix you robots.txt & make a sitemap index

• https://www.lyntron.com/robots.txt
• https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/75712?hl=en
• https://moz.com/blog/xml-sitemaps

** I want to get the full crawl don't want to drop the conclusions but**

https://www.lyntron.com/spacer** is no index Because**

https://www.lyntron.com/spacers

Address https://www.lyntron.com/spacer
URL Encoded Address https://www.lyntron.com/spacer
Content text/html; charset=UTF-8
Status Code 200
Status
Indelibility Non-Indexable
Indelibility Status Canonicalized
Size 992.8 KB
Title 1 Spacers & Unthreaded Standoffs | Lyn-Tron
Title 1 Length 41
Meta Description 1 Spacers are used to create space between 2 objects in an assembly. In the world of Electronic Hardware and Electronic Components, spacers are most often found spacing circuit boards, motherboards, panels and doors. Lyn-Tron Spacers are unthreaded and come in Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Brass and Nylon. All Lyn-Tron Electronic Hardware is made in the USA and held to the highest quality standards.
Meta Description 1 Length **404 (is way to long) **
Meta Description 1 Pixel Width 2408

Tomany H1's https://youtu.be/i_xnKznRNCc

"How Many Headings Should You Use? Does the Order of Heading Tags Matter?"
Question: “Can the H1 Tag appear below the h2 tag in the code does the spider still know what’s going on?”
Answer: “yeah I wouldn’t worry about it we handle h1s and h2s very well but don’t make your entire page h1 or h2” Matt Cutts, Google

H1-1 Spacers
H1-1 length 7
H2-1 1/8" Spacers
H2-1 length 12
H2-2 3/16" Spacers
H2-2 length 13
Canonical Link Element 1 https://www.lyntron.com/spacers
Canonical Link Element 1 Indexability Non-Indexable
Canonical Link Status 1 Indexability Status Not crawled
Word Count 4745
Text Ratio 3.63
Crawl Depth 2
Link Score
Inlinks 4
Unique Inlinks 4
% of Total 0.13
Outlinks 242
Unique Outlinks 230
External Outlinks 4
Unique External Outlinks 4
Hash 4411485c90296d40616747de3f7f40ae
Response Time 0.42
Last Modified

You should use a 301 from https://www.lyntron.com/spacer to https://www.lyntron.com/spacers

https://www.lyntron.com/spacers

drop the link below & site: in Google search

site:https://www.lyntron.com/spacer

• https://i.imgur.com/7lyO4JG.png Running two crawls now
• https://i.imgur.com/QdtuT8E.png Faceted navigation needs noindex is some urls
• https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lyntron.com%2F1-4in-aluminum-round-spacer-unplated%2Fpn%2FAA6341-04-0.187-00
• This might not open on your computer use The preview from URLAbove to see what I'm showing below:
• https://www.google.com/search?prvw=AHHjJUNRLFS9wnmyla4BGJzI4EXHUc3Y4w&q=previewid%3Afaf9a71c-5d30-401f-b3e6-f7eacfd09dd1&useragent=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Linux%3B+Android+7.1.1%3B+Nexus+6+Build%2FN6F27M%29+AppleWebKit%2F537.36+%28KHTML%2C+like+Gecko%29+Chrome%2F66.0.3359.106+Mobile+Safari%2F537.36&filter=0&gws_rd=cr&newwindow=1&igu=1

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

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running deep crawl now

Happy to help!

When you answer a question for Google, you should make each page the answer to the question asked by the audience.

I am guessing you moved to  Shopify?

I have not really had the opportunity to look at the  site yet about to jump on a flight.

But I do find what you mean by spacer

https://www.lyntron.com/spacer

Or

https://www.lyntron.com/swage-spacer

I Will get you a lot more information by tomorrow night

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

if you talking about the domain

you should 301 redirect each of the 3 of 4 different URLs to the one you want to be the primary domain that is using https

This is a great guide

https://ahrefs.com/blog/301-redirects/

You can always use CloudFlare as free & easy fix.

If you want to use HSTS preload or just HSTS

Test your 301 setup using

https://hstspreload.org/?domain=example.com

If you are using https://www.  as the primary

See you must force http to https and the HTTP://www

Must redirect to the https:// bare domain so that means two redirects.

Error: No redirect from HTTPhttp://example.com does not redirect to https://example.com.

Hope this helps,

Tom

I am guessing you did not make page to page 301 redirects to the have you updated site structure and left the old URLs with out a without the redirect ?

I am guessing that is what happened

I can tell you what happened when I test domain just give me 48 hours.

Sincerely,

Tom

Sorry I do see your using Nginx on the new domain.

See

“Example 1 — Moving to a Different Domain”

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-temporary-and-permanent-redirects-with-nginx

sincerely ,

Tom

Please let me know if that helped you or if you n me to expand on anything.

All the best,

Tom