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Clarity

Stephen Walker

London

SEO director at Journey Further and co-owner of MRE Media - technical SEO consultancy for start ups and SME organisations.
Specialising in website audits, launch strategy, migrations, redirect strategy, with experience across all major CMS (Magento, Wordpress, Umbraco, Drupal) and programming languages e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python

$6.67/min

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Stephen Walker answered

Will moving my website to another web host / server affect my google rankings?

It's highly unlikely that moving web hosting would impact your rankings. However there are a few situations where your visibility could decrease if not accounted for:

During the move the website isn't available for a sustained period - crawlers won't be able to reach the content on the website causing your rankings to decreases over time.

If your server response time increases - make sure your new hosting is to the same performance standard, slow load times DO impact rankings.

HTTPS encryption - if your current website has a SSL certificate you will need to ensure this is updated/retained for your new server to retain the (small) existing ranking benefit.

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Why is the SEO Moz tool showing that there are duplicates of each page on my site being picked up by Google?

This is a very common problem and can be described as being an issue with 'canonicalisation'. Essentially, you only want to show one (or canonical) version of your web content to search bots as opposed to multiple versions across varieties of URLs e.g. www.domain.com, domain.com, https://domain.com etc.

This problem can be solved in a selection of ways:

Canonical tag - use the canonical link element referencing the preferred URL.

Permanent redirects - use a 301 redirect to the preferred URL.

Set your preferred domain in Google Search Console - this is the easiest, due to the lack of dev time required and seems to suit your specific issue.

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Great call on how to start SEO properly on a new website, looking forward to a follow-up call

Lucas Gra Source: Clarity

Stephen was great - he answered my questions and provided written follow up afterwards. Exactly what I was looking for - thank you!

Andrew McCluskey Source: Clarity

Excellent as usual. Always a pleasure. Super helpful and clever. Cheers Steve!

Dave Eddy Source: Clarity

Great call. Stephen is extremely knowledgeable, very helpful and insightful! I got a lot out of our half hour call. Thanks, Stephen!

Mark Verkhovski Source: Clarity

Had a very useful call with Steven. We covered a lot of ground in 15 minutes and he was able to offer some good insights. No doubt we will speak again in the near future.

Robert Bridgman Source: Clarity

Stephen was very helpful with a consultation on my new website I'm building. I have been struggling to find a clear path forward and he helped me understand some key things about SEO that will set me down the right path. Great advice!

Brad Stevens Source: Clarity

Very helpful call - got straight into actionable reports and insights for the site. Looking forward to working with Steve more in the future

Trevor Harwood Source: Clarity

Stephen was fantastic. Super helpful and great to deal with. He listens carefully and provides sound, logical recommendations. Definitely recommend him!

Dave Eddy Source: Clarity

Highly recommend Stephen, professional concise and considerate. Stephen had arranged for the submission of my questions prior to our meeting, so he could prepare adequately this in turn maximized my return.

Jordan Panos Source: Clarity

Stephen has an extraordinary knowledge about technical SEO and has helped me understand very clearly in simple language what was wrong with our SEO implementation. Additionally he helped me with other issues I was facing on my website. After the call Stephen also send me a detailed description of what was discussed with links to references. We surely recommend Steve to anyone! Look no further! A+++ Thanks again Steve.

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