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I agree, you shouldn't lose much if any on DA and PA, but if you are on a GoDaddy holding page you will start losing those links. I'm sure you realize the need to get some relevant content up there fast

Just to make sure I understand.  Can you clarify the sequence of the changes and for how long?  Do you know if one set of URLs has links to it or was ever indexed. Let me explain. It sounds like you had a site that was using http and was an asp site. So you had URLs like http://www.website.com/file.asp  (we will call this URL type A) You then converted to https so the URLs were like https://www.website.com/file.asp  (we will call this URL type B) You then updated to a PHP site so now with URLs are like this https://www.website.com/file.php (we will call this URL type C) You can setup 301s to go from A to B  and then another set to go from B to C.  Your question is can you setup a 301 to go from A to C, the answer is yes. You should do this.  Anytime you can reduce the number of hops the better. What you need to think about is, well, that about the A to B and the B to C redirects?   Well, I would say at a minimum, you need to eliminate the A to B 301s as you have now decided to skip the "B" and go right to C.  That works.  What about the B to C 301 redirect?   It depends.   If you had version B of the website out for a while, and it was indexed by Google and you have links that are built to B version URLs, then yes, you need to leave the B to C redirects.  You don't want to lose any of that equity. Likewise, let's say you have a version D of the site that comes out a year later.  You have lots of links into the C version of the site. https://www.website.com/file.html You then need the A urls to 301 to the D URLs (and get rid of the A to C 301s), you need the B URL to 301 to the D URLs and so on. In other words, go through another process of cleaning up the 301s and reducing the hops. Why do all this.  Two reasons.  There will still be links to the A, B, C versions of the site.  Google will still find them and crawl them and you want to get credit for those links to your site.  Also, Google keeps an internal log of URLs and will check them from time to time, even if no one is linking to them.  You want Google to find the right URL.    In either case, if Google hits a version A URL, it would then have to go to version B via a 301 and then to version C.  It can do it, but it would rather have 1 hop. Side note.  Try not to use global 301s, where you just 301 a bunch of pages to the home page.  That does nothing for you as far as link equity.  Try and make the 301s a 1 to 1 relationship as much as possible. Take a look at this video and this backs up what I just said.  The number of hops is discussed at about 3 min in.  The whole video is worth watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

thanks appreciate for your help, thanks

thanks appreciate for your help, thanks

thanks appreciate for your help, thanks

Hey There! Sounds like you're doing a lot of things by-the-books and "right" "on paper" but it's really tough to know if you're on the right track for sure without seeing the site or an example of some of the links being build, or content, etc. I say this because "40 links a month" for example sounds like a nice number, but also sounds suspect because that's a pretty sizable amount of links, which makes me wonder about the quality of them. What I'd be curious about is - what are the things outside of SEO or SEO tactics/fixes have been done? I'm thinking in regards to social, audience building, brand building, design upgrades, content, adding value etc? Also, what type of site is this and how big is it? The other thing that's tough to know is how well the technical things were implemented. For example, switching to https among other things can create a lot of redirect chains. I would try to undo redirect chains and only do page->page redirects (instead of having chains of page->page->page->page etc). And right, it's tough to know if your disavow is helping or hurting without knowing a lot of the specifics. If it was me, I'd make sure you're focusing enough on others things besides just directly on SEO. That doesn't mean you'd ignore SEO when doing social, content, audience building etc - just that you're taking a more holistic view. I think Google definitely favors recovering sites that prove they are building something people want.

Canonical tags would be the most important thing to look at for your dynamic URLs. As long as each of your dynamic pages has a canonical tag to the static version of the page (i.e. package-search/holidays/hotelFilters/) then you won't have to worry about duplicate content.

I'm seeing a lot of that in the SERPs with no particular pattern, even on BBC's site. Are you running Wordpress? Could it be a plugin you've added?

Hey E, Yes, Google considered these two URLs separately. Usually the "/" indicates that, it is a directory and the URL without "/" denotes a file. It's better to put a 301 redirect to the appropriate page to avoid any problem. Checkout what Google recommends on this topic: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html Hope this helps! Umar

You can simply use Fetch as Google. A Google web master tool which will easily Index you website. 2mhzjte.jpg

Hi there I recommend taking a look at Rand's Subdomains vs. Subfolders, Rel Canonical vs. 301, and How to Structure Links for SEO - Whiteboard Friday. It's a great resource on this subject! Hope this helps! Good luck!

thank you!

hi sorry for late reply, yes its working elsewhere whcih is strange.. its also working here but gives this extra message about this subdomain we dont have and is not active thanks again

hi the reason we are trying to reduce them was because the site has a fancy navigation bar which looks good, gives fast a navigation, but then inturn providesa  high volume of links from the source page, thanks

hi thanks for the reply I also believe panda may have hit the site.. do you think just removing this kind of content is good enough to rank the site better.. we have gone to the extent of removing pages we found high duplicate ratios.. hoping that will help.. also we are merging page content to make them larger, more in-depth rather than multiple pages for small subtopics.. cheers Ram

I think that some link exchanging is ok provided that it makes sense for my customers and that it's not done to a crazy scale.  But, I wouldn't recommend doing it via a "links" page.  I think that in some cases if you can work the link into a blog post and your partner does the same, then this is ok.  But, if you're having trouble finding a way to naturally mention this website, then perhaps it's only a link that would be there for SEO purposes and not one you should pursue. I have reviewed a large number of backlink profiles and it is pretty obvious when someone is doing link exchange just to boost their PR and conversely where there are reciprocal links there that just make sense.  If I'm a real estate agent and I recommend a particular house inspector and if that house inspector recommends me, there is no problem with that.  But, if I am recommending 100 house inspectors who are also recommending me then there's a problem.  Or, if I am recommending payday loans providers and casinos, then something seems wrong with that.

I wonder if they just installed it and didn't make any configurations? That would be my first guess since they left it up to you (the client). I wrote an article about setup on nginx (seems to be your environment). Take a look at that post and specifically the virtual host server config where I enable specific PSM filters for that website. Oh, and I'd also check the nginx.conf file to see if it's turned on. Responded to your PM as well. #ngx_pagespeed module settings pagespeed on; pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache; http://www.rankhammer.com/blog/2513/page-speed-module-nginx-setup-on-linode

you're running Apache tomcat right? 301 Redirect URLs. Redirect 301 /holidays/about-direct-traveller/british-travel-awards.asp /directtraveller/awards Redirect 301 /directtraveller/holidays/about-direct-traveller/british-travel-awards.asp /directtraveller/awards I am guessing this simply from you having this port open and having no issues with HTaccess 8443 is the default port of tomcat with ssl http://beamusup.com/generate-htaccess/

I agree with Highland that this type of solution probably won't be your best choice. How much of your traffic is actually mobile? Rand Fishkin shared this post on Google+, saying that Moz wasn't worried about making the deadline since they have very little mobile traffic. Also, in this discussion here in Moz, Peter Meyers posted that this update is page-based, so if you have a smaller number of pages that are very mobile-crucial, perhaps you could fix those first, and then work on the larger fix for your website.