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Hi, any plugin like sh404SEF will work and accomplish your goal without hurting your rankings as long as it redirects, the index.php URLs to their corresponding without index.php URLs via 301. By the way, you don't need to list all your URLs in .htaccess file to implement this. You can go with pattern match redirection.

Here you go for more:

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/301-redirect-with-mod_rewrite-or-redirectmatch.html

and

http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/htaccess-redirect-rewrite-rules.html

By the way, having index.php in URLs does not affect your SEO efforts directly but by stripping index.php from all the URLs will make them look pretty, clean and a bit user friendly.

Hope it helps. Good Luck to you.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

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Hi Somanathan,

Suppose:

Website = Car

Content  = Engine

DA/PA   = Turbocharger/Nitro booster

You need to have content that is unique, highly relevant, targeted, updated and useful to the visitors. With this in place, your website will get the boost from DA/PA and thereby can rank well in the search engines. You should do a thorough keyword research and analysis, come up with highly searched terms for your niche, add pages targeting each of these with highly relevant content targeting the main keyword/phrase. If you can let us know the website in question, we will be able to suggest you better. Good Luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, even if you use robots.txt file to block these pages, Google can still pick the references of these pages from third-party websites and can crawl from there. Such pages will not have the description snippet in the search results and instead will show text that reads:

A description of this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt.

So, to fully stop Google from crawling these pages, you can go in for the page-level meta robots tag along with the robots.txt method. The page-level robots meta tag complements robots.txt method.By the way, robots.txt file can definitely save you some crawl budget. I don't think you should be thinking much about crawl budget though, as long as your website is super-easy to crawl with simple text-based internal links and stuff like, super-fast servers etc.,

Those my my two cents my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, just in case, login to your Google analytics account and please visit this URL:

http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

Give read-only access to the application and check if this website has been hit by any of the Google updates like Panda or Penguin. Look from October 2012 till date. I see an issue between December 2012 to February 2013. Let us know what do you see and we shall take it from there.

By the way, no on-page SEO tool on this planet is comprehensive. A true SEO audit can be done by only a good SEO expert. Of course making use of best tools of the trade like Moz etc.,

Best regards,

Devanur

Dear Fred,

Here is your redirection setup:

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/      being redirected via 301 to

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no    being redirected via 301 to

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

So, I would suggest you to remove the interim URL without the trailing slash after 'no'. Let the original homepage, http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ also be redirected to http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ (the one with trailing slash) via 301.

So your redirection setup should be as follows:

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/  - via 301 to - http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

This should fix the issue. Essentially, we are eliminating the redirection loop here.

By the way, both the URLs, with and without trailing slash appear in Google when searched with the following queries:

weekend.visitsweden.com/no

weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

You need to go in for server-side URL rewrites in this case. With URL rewrite in place, the URL in the address bar for the visitor will be your SEO and user-friendly, vanity URL and the same will be in search engines' indices there by accomplishing your mission. Then you might want to make sure that your old, ugly URL passes on all its SEO goodies to the vanity URL. For this, you can go in for a 301 redirection from the ugly URL to the vanity URL.

Here is a beautiful article from Moz: http://moz.com/blog/url-rewrites-and-301-redirects-how-does-it-all-work

Hope it helps. Good Luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, you should initiate an action against them but before doing that, have a word with them and ask them to take it down. They are trying to hijack your prospect visitors by showing your content in an iframe of their website. This is a known dirty trick. By the way, when I clicked the click you mentioned, it took me to a download and probably an adaware of malware.

Please do not keep quite and act now to have that malicious site to stop showing your content. Also, they are eating up your server's bandwidth. You can even complain this to the other website's hosting provider.

Good Luck my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Oh ok...

This line ensures its a 301:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Hi friend, IMHO, you should go ahead with the merger as the idea is to have one stable and wide website. Moreover, all the SEO goodies of other websites will be inherited by the destination site within few weeks. Don't worry about the product site outperforming the main site. We did this  twice in the past and came out with flying colors. Go ahead with a proper page-to-page 301 redirection for the merger and don't kill the product site for at least 6-7 months.

Please write back with more queries.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi