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If you set it up your site (blog) on the settings as non-www version. you should add some 301 redirect plugin

Hi Mcncil, Wordpress is installed in a folder /blog regards T

Hello Murray! Do you have any specific advice for sites on Shopify? It seems they made the decision to move to https in 2016 and just leave a swaythe of small site owners to sort out redirects etc after it happened Sorry, i've little to none experience in Shopify. Can't help here. One 'gotcha' that I keep finding is with backlinks. When the site moves to https, backlinks that were previously set up to point to http are not recognised as backlinks on https, which appears to impact backlink profile and domain authority on the new https version. Does this make sense? Therefore, all the old backlinks need to be changed to point to https. Is this correct? Here there are 2 points make. On one hand, if the redirection to https is done correctly with a 301 all the backlinks will point to the last page. On the other hand, IF, only IF, you have some way to change the URL in the backlink, it could be a nice idea. I'd prefer assuring a correct redirection rather than changing the pointed URL in old backlinks. Remember that non-google backlink profilers (such as Moz, ahrefs, magestic or others) will take some time in collecting all the information in the HTTPS site. That is simple it is a whole new site/page for them. I typically use the Traffic Control app to redirect URLs, but they seem to use relative links. So how do we redirect http to https? Don't know how large and/or complicated is the site. I do handle (or say to the IT team to handle) the redirection strictly with 301 redirection rules. Most of them with some sentences in the .htaccess file or with a plugin if Wordpress is used. Hope i've helped. Please feel free to ask more if i haven't answered you or if I haven't explained well. GR.

Hi Tim, thanks for your help. Yes wordpress will be installed in a folder /blog/ So it should be quite simple to do this redirect! Regards Tai

Hi Taiger! Just checking, did you and Daniel get this worked out?

Hi Taiger, You can find instructions on how to do this at https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/answer/1235687 The menu itself is found at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters You'll just want to enter escaped_fragment when they ask parameter, and answer "No" to the questions regarding whether this changes content on the page.

I'm assuming you include these tags for Facebook's benefit, because if you want to send localization signals to Google, it's better to use hreflang. Hreflang allows a comprehensive range of countries and languages: you can combine any two values from the ISO-639-1 list of language codes and the ISO-3166-1 Alpha 2 list of countries. The locales supported by Facebook are a lot more limited. You can't have en-IT for English speakers in Italy, for example, because Facebook doesn't support that value. Facebook only allows the following English-language locales: UK English: en-GB US English: en-US English (India): en-IN English (Pirate): en-PI English (Upside Down): en_UD You can see Facebook's full list of supported locales on this page. So the answer is that it won't matter where your users are. What will matter to Facebook is the style of English you use. If you write in British English, you should use en-GB, and if you use US spellings then use en-US.

Thanks for the answer and for endorsing the question. Regards Tai

Great, thanks for clearing this up. Have a great day..

Hi i hope its ok, i sent the links/urls to your email Regards T

Thanks for helping Malika! To clarify for other readers, blocking in robots.txt after the pages have been indexed will actually prevent them from being removed from the index with a meta noindex tag, since Google won't be able to crawl the pages to see the noindex tag. If staging URLs have been indexed already (and assuming they still need to exist), here's the steps I would take: Add meta noindex tags to every staging URLs If urgent, also do a URL removal request in Webmaster Tools (but this is usually not needed) Wait until the staging URLs are noindexed - you can check periodically by doing site: searches in Google. Only after they are noindexed, block Search Engines from crawling them with the robots.txt file.

Hi Kristen Thanks for the heads up.. I have found the cause... Wordpress v. 4.4, on my test site i rolled back to 4.3.1 and it all works fine. So I think it must be an issue with the plugin which has not been updated to wordpress 4.4 Thank you for your help.

can you do me a favour and check if  http://www.............magazine.com is duplicate with the above domain that we are talking about i used your similar page checker and it said 100% we have a redirect on the domain, but i am concerned that it may not be effective

Hi Taiger. I'm assuming the sidebar widget is linking to ?cat=9 instead of /category/category-name/. It seems like this is a relatively uncommon issue. The simplest fix would be to use a list instead of a dropdown. If that's not an option, you could look into hardcoding a dropdown menu yourself instead of using the widget code. You'd need to open up the source code, fix the incorrect links, and paste that HTML back into a text widget. Hope that helps, -Kane

Hi Dirk, This is why I love the Moz community.. Thanks you so much for the info, it works a treat. Have a great day T

Hi Tai, Glad to hear that this is all sorted out. All the best, Tom

Thank Brabants, So I think i sorted it. 1 changed the nameserver, 2 Changed the wordpress general settings to the new domain.. and all works great..phew Thanks Guys MOZ Community Rocks

Wow, thanks a lot Tom, I will check them out. We are moving to Wordpress, and after will have a replica site, for security and testing. My CRM system is based on Django running on Python. We have a lot of content and videos images to move over. just found these guys.. what do you think http://profprojects.com/migrate-django-cms-to-wordpress/ Thanks again

Sorry for the delay. And thank you for your help.

you're off on a tangent here....let's not do that...my comments referred to the 'why' not the cause.... go to the 'recommended' list and pick a few to vet....then get a deal and they will undoubtedly do that complete web audit first to see where you are and why... all else is rhetoric here....time to get the tasks started, eh!