Product url

[mprough]

There are many things of great importance when moving a shop such as you did. Firstly, make sure ALL versions are redirected and that the header response is a 301 redirect. So

http://www.domain.com
https://www.domain.com
http://domain.com
https://domain.com

Here is a tool to test https://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/header-checker/

Next it is important to understand that reindexing takes time and as much as Google denies as sandboxing period, it is none the less true. The period of time it takes to see a positive SERP change depends a great deal on the health of the site. I have seen sites with issues such as widespread duplicate content take a year or better to begin to show positive results.

Lastly, and the real bummer of the day is decay. This is a sad fact that through redirect, no matter how long or how healthy the site, some rank will be lost in the changeover.

Best advice is hang tough, create new, unique content every week and share pages (not spamming) on social media. If you have the skills a few easy pages with "link bait" which is content users find useful enough to share will help.

~Melanie

[idtags]

There are many things of great importance when moving a shop such as you did. Firstly, make sure ALL versions are redirected and that the header response is a 301 redirect. So

http://www.domain.com
https://www.domain.com
http://domain.com
https://domain.com

Here is a tool to test https://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/header-checker/

Next it is important to understand that reindexing takes time and as much as Google denies as sandboxing period, it is none the less true. The period of time it takes to see a positive SERP change depends a great deal on the health of the site. I have seen sites with issues such as widespread duplicate content take a year or better to begin to show positive results.

Lastly, and the real bummer of the day is decay. This is a sad fact that through redirect, no matter how long or how healthy the site, some rank will be lost in the changeover.

Best advice is hang tough, create new, unique content every week and share pages (not spamming) on social media. If you have the skills a few easy pages with "link bait" which is content users find useful enough to share will help.

~Melanie

Using suggested tool, test returned "200 OK" for all 4 tests.

"http://idtagsonline.com/ - 200 OK"

Should it be 301?

Please explain how to check "If in the upgrade the template was set to not support indexing"?

Thank you.

[mprough]

Your canonical redirects are not right www and non both work, whilst one should redirect to the other... there should be only one canonical version. Also, besides your content which is most important, your speed is a little slow only a C 77/100 Google PageSpeed score.

~Melanie

[dbltoe]

The one thing often forgotten when doing redirects is whether the SSL can is set to cover BOTH www and non-www or just ONE of the two.

I often use https://websiteadvantage.com.au/HtAc...ing-ToolResult to quickly create an .htaccess redirect.

IF your SSL will work for https://idtagsonline.com, you might add this to your .htaccess

# Needed before any rewritingRewriteEngine On


### Built using the .htaccess 301 Redirect Generator from Web Site Advantage
### https://websiteadvantage.com.au/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator
### Place after 'RewriteEngine On' and before any CMS specific rewrite rules


# Redirect HTTP with www to HTTPS without www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Redirect HTTP without www to HTTPS without www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Redirect HTTPS with www to HTTPS without www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]


## 301 Redirects

After doing this your test of the header will show a 301 and a 200. If you need to redirect other URLs to the non-www main store, use the generator to add them to the Old to New Page List

comment: Right now, your non-www shows as not secure.

[idtags]

Your canonical redirects are not right www and non both work, whilst one should redirect to the other... there should be only one canonical version. ...

~Melanie

It is puzzling what is manifestation of "both non work"?

Below is C-Panel redirect snap shot page:



Options: "Type Permanent (301 )"; "Redirect with or without www." and "Wild Card Redirect " were used
to redirect everything.

I tested IE, Chrome and FireFox (cleaned all cookies before) for:

idtagsonline.com
idtagsonline.com/store/
www.idtagsonline.com/
www.idtagsonline.com/store/
http://idtagsonline.com/
http://idtagsonline.com/store/

and all of them are redirected to https://www.idtagsonline.com/ without any noticeable errors.

Also, in Google Search Console nothing shows as errors.

So, where are errors detected or this is something not tangible?

Thank you.

[dbltoe]

I am seeing different. You may as well if you clear your cache before entering idtagsonline.com. It will show up as not secure. The redirect occurs only AFTER moving off that page to anywhere else.

It also appears that your SSL is set for www. It's rather outdated to do that. I would see if you can't get the SSL to work on the non-www first and then finish the redirect.

The cpanel image shows that you are only pushing the directory store to the https://www.idtagsonline.com. That, in fact works. However, I would remove it and go with the code I posted. Having it and the code could cause a redirect error.

[idtags]

Thank you,

So, final goal after using https://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/header-checker/ is to recieve respond like this:



Thank you for code.

I posted my C-Panel data for redirect above.

Did I do redirect wrong?

Why additional codes are required?

Should I resolve this issue with Hosting Company or everybody are adding this code to .htaccess for 301 to work?

It is probably sounds as silly questions to Pro, but C-Panel claims it handles redirect.

[dbltoe]

That's the result you want.

You should only do the redirect in one place. Either the .htaccess or the cPanel. You CAN do both, but you have to be VERY careful not to duplicate any redirect. That's why you would need to remove the redirect in cPanel. It would be too difficult to pull the /shop to root redirect out of the .htaccess code.

[dbltoe]

Again, www versus non-www is important. The code I posted is to make everything https://idtagsonline.com.

Your base href and canonical links are both https://www.idtagsonline.com AND the link activated when you click on the main page image is https://index.php/?main_page=index

[idtags]

Again, www versus non-www is important. The code I posted is to make everything https://idtagsonline.com.

Your base href and canonical links are both https://www.idtagsonline.com AND the link activated when you click on the main page image is https://index.php/?main_page=index

Thank you.

I will do one thing at a time.
(In earlier post I mentioned that this Zen Cart originally was installed at /store/ so many customers may have this bookmark. This is why this redirect exists.)

I added another line on C-panel:



and it created this code:



I will wait 24 hours to see if this will take any effect.

If it will not work will try your code.

Thank you very much for enlightening.