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It looks like you're trying to track http://nappyvalleynet.com instead of http://www.nappyvalleynet.com/

You have a redirect from the http:// version to http://www version, so wherever you are entering nappyvalleynet.com enter http://www.nappyvalleynet.com instead.

An answer from one of the founders (no longer in the company) who I have on skype, I stripped out a couple of things from the chat (my posts and a couple of irrelevant bits):

[16:08:31] A Founder: that's a difficult question to answer really
[16:08:43] A Founder: is it worth £80 a year ?
[16:08:51] A Founder: I would doubt it to be honest
[16:10:07] A Founder: apparently I cant reply anyway
[16:10:37] A Founder: I aint a pro
[16:11:09] Me: If you want to write it out I can reply for you
[16:12:48] A Founder: well if you want to tell him scoot also offer a free listing and I am happy to talk to him but cant as I aint a pro
[16:13:08] A Founder: and yes I was one of the 3 founders
[16:13:27] A Founder: ya they now bulk list you
[16:13:46] A Founder: 500+ directories, that to me sounds so spammy
[16:14:13] A Founder: I would claim the free listing and say thanks but no thanks to the rest
[16:17:36] A Founder: but feel free to post my thoughts if you want

Have a look at your site through http://web.archive.org/. You'll be able to see what the directories were used for.

However, if there's no use for them on the current site then what's the purpose of keeping these disallows in the robots.txt?

301 Redirects, testing that canonicals are on the https url, working through the site and removing the http:// links and changing to https:// links.

Also I feel that it's important to say that could be an issue with a custom website too, due to the fact that a lot of web developers are not seo professionals, so they don't build a site to be seo friendly.

Hi Andrew,

You can use the hreflang tag, this will tell Google that this is your site in a different language. Useful post for you here: https://hreflang.org/what-is-hreflang-a-primer/

My biggest question though, is how you are translating, will it be human translation or machine translation? See: http://searchengineland.com/how-machine-translation-has-a-habit-of-mangling-multilingual-seo-91759 for a bit more detail.

Just got this status page email: http://health.moz.com/incidents/p9q8yk49kh25

Funnily, Dr. Pete did a whiteboard friday on this today: https://moz.com/blog/arent-301s-302s-canonicals-all-basically-the-same-whiteboard-friday

The answer shouldn't be "what does it take to get a green light" it should be "what's the quickest we can get it for our user". The ideal speed should be under two seconds to load a page.

Expanding on what Tymen has said,

This could be a good strategy, but why would you not just 301 redirect the whole site to a page on your own site (explaining that they don't exist anymore). This way I see you getting more value to your site (one hop through the redirect instead of one hop from the redirect and the link)

Also, something that may be worth looking into is if they have any high value links, seeing where they come from and explaining the company is not existent and trying to get the links that they once had.

Letsencrypt is a great way of offering SSL. It's backed by a LOT of big organisations: https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/

"using a free certificate would have the same effect as a paid one? I would rather pay for one than be punished for using a free one, but free would be good too."
I am confident that as long as the site is secure, the level of encryption does not matter. As then SEO would become "pay to win" which I don't think is the case.

Just to expand, it may also have an ever so slightly increase on page load time, as the browser tries to download this file. (probably only about 10-50ms or so), so if you can't remove it then it's not really a major concern.

If it's easy for you to get them to change them, then yes I would, however I wouldn't spend more than a quick email on getting it done.

Just to echo what Laura has said, if you can share a URL that would be great so we can help you get to the source of the problem.

Try running a tool like screamingfrog (https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/) to check the issues above that Laura has mentioned, as doing a lot of those by hand can be quite time consuming.

Also, do you have a drop in rankings with your pages falling out the index?

It'll vary because of the crawlers, each company will have a different amount of sites in their database, and they will also have a different process to get their data live in their console. Honestly I would take each with a grain of salt and just try and use them as a rough guide.

Why would a content delivery network be a last resort? Cloudflare is something you can setup within under half an hour.

I would look at your host, as a "shared server" isn't exactly top tier hosting and Joomla is quite a heavy application.

Something i'd never thought about: http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/anchor-links.html

So looks to not have an impact according to that article.

Yes that looks correct, I would add an x-default for the rest of the world. this is a good article: https://hreflang.org/use-hreflang-canonical-together/

http://www.myseosolution.de/downloads/mobile-hreflang-canonical-fixed.png Is a great image to explain things.

Honestly i've been a bit inactive at the minute, however from what I can see the mozpoints is working fine. I do only see the staff badge when i'm logged in.

You should be able to find the answer to your question right here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection