SEO: fix 404 redirects, sitemap cleanup, canonical fix, internal links

- .htaccess: 301 redirect data-analytics-companies-london-top-providers → -compared
- .htaccess: 301 redirect gdpr-compliance-web-scraping-uk-guide → web-scraping-compliance-uk-guide
- sitemap.xml: remove redirecting /services/data-analytics entry
- sitemap.xml: remove duplicate real-time-analytics-streaming (2025) entry
- sitemap.xml: add locations/london, /manchester, /birmingham pages
- real-time-analytics-streaming.php: canonical → real-time-analytics-streaming-data (2026 version)
- data-analytics-companies-london-top-providers-compared.php: internal link to churn article
- python-data-pipeline-tools-2025.php: internal link to churn article
- real-time-analytics-streaming-data.php: internal link to churn article

.htaccess

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Redirect www to non-www
+RewriteEngine On
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)$ [NC]
+RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [L,R=301]
+
 # Custom error pages
 ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
 ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
@@ -163,6 +168,10 @@ Options -Indexes
     # Redirect unknown service pages to project-types
     RewriteRule ^services/(.+)$ /project-types [R=301,L]
 
+    # 301 Redirects for renamed pages
+    RewriteRule ^blog/articles/data-analytics-companies-london-top-providers/?$ /blog/articles/data-analytics-companies-london-top-providers-compared [R=301,L]
+    RewriteRule ^blog/articles/gdpr-compliance-web-scraping-uk-guide/?$ /blog/articles/web-scraping-compliance-uk-guide [R=301,L]
+
     # Clean URL rewriting - remove .php extension
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

blog/articles/data-analytics-companies-london-top-providers-compared.php

@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ $modified_date = "2025-08-08";
 
                         <div class="faq-item">
                             <h3>How long do typical analytics projects take?</h3>
-                            <p>Project timelines vary significantly: analytics strategy (4-12 weeks), BI implementations (3-9 months), predictive analytics (2-6 months), and full data platform builds (6-18 months). Agile approaches typically deliver value in 2-4 week sprints.</p>
+                            <p>Project timelines vary significantly: analytics strategy (4-12 weeks), BI implementations (3-9 months), predictive analytics (2-6 months), and full data platform builds (6-18 months). Agile approaches typically deliver value in 2-4 week sprints. For a deeper look at predictive timelines in practice, see our guide on <a href="/blog/articles/predictive-analytics-customer-churn">predictive analytics for customer churn reduction</a>.</p>
                         </div>
 
                         <div class="faq-item">

blog/articles/python-data-pipeline-tools-2025.php

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ $breadcrumbs = [
                         <li><strong>DataOps Integration:</strong> CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code approaches</li>
                     </ul>
                     
-                    <p>The modern data pipeline tool must balance ease of use with enterprise-grade features, supporting everything from simple ETL jobs to complex machine learning workflows.</p>
+                    <p>The modern data pipeline tool must balance ease of use with enterprise-grade features, supporting everything from simple ETL jobs to complex machine learning workflows, including <a href="/blog/articles/predictive-analytics-customer-churn">customer churn prediction pipelines</a>.</p>
                 </section>
                 
                 <section>

blog/articles/real-time-analytics-streaming-data.php

@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ groups:
                     <ul>
                         <li><strong>Personalization:</strong> Real-time recommendation engines</li>
                         <li><strong>Inventory Management:</strong> Dynamic pricing and stock optimization</li>
-                        <li><strong>Customer Analytics:</strong> Live customer journey tracking</li>
+                        <li><strong>Customer Analytics:</strong> Live customer journey tracking and <a href="/blog/articles/predictive-analytics-customer-churn">real-time churn prediction</a></li>
                         <li><strong>A/B Testing:</strong> Real-time experiment analysis</li>
                     </ul>
                     

blog/articles/real-time-analytics-streaming.php

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ $article_title = "Real-Time Streaming Analytics: 5-Step Pipeline Guide (2025) |
 $article_description = "Build a real-time streaming analytics pipeline in 5 steps. Covers Kafka, Flink, and cloud-native architectures with latency benchmarks and code examples.";
 $article_keywords = "real-time analytics, streaming data, Apache Kafka, real-time dashboards, stream processing, data streaming UK";
 $article_author = "UK Data Services Analytics Team";
-$canonical_url = "https://ukdataservices.co.uk/blog/articles/real-time-analytics-streaming";
+$canonical_url = "https://ukdataservices.co.uk/blog/articles/real-time-analytics-streaming-data";
 $article_published = "2025-06-02T09:00:00+00:00";
 $article_modified = "2025-06-02T09:00:00+00:00";
 $og_image = "https://ukdataservices.co.uk/assets/images/icon-speed.svg";

sitemap.xml

@@ -42,12 +42,6 @@
     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
     <priority>0.8</priority>
 </url>
-<url>
-    <loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/data-analytics</loc>
-    <lastmod>2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
-    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
-    <priority>0.8</priority>
-</url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/property-data-extraction</loc>
     <lastmod>2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
@@ -229,12 +223,6 @@
     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
     <priority>0.7</priority>
 </url>
-<url>
-    <loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/blog/articles/real-time-analytics-streaming</loc>
-    <lastmod>2026-02-04T08:34:00+00:00</lastmod>
-    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
-    <priority>0.7</priority>
-</url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/blog/articles/real-time-data-extraction-technical-guide-uk-businesses</loc>
     <lastmod>2026-02-04T08:34:00+00:00</lastmod>
@@ -332,4 +320,24 @@
     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
     <priority>0.7</priority>
 </url>
+
+<!-- Location Pages -->
+<url>
+    <loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/locations/london</loc>
+    <lastmod>2026-02-20T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.8</priority>
+</url>
+<url>
+    <loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/locations/manchester</loc>
+    <lastmod>2026-02-20T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.8</priority>
+</url>
+<url>
+    <loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/locations/birmingham</loc>
+    <lastmod>2026-02-20T00:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.8</priority>
+</url>
 </urlset>