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Thanks, Natalie, I think that's it Just verified authorship, but I guess it takes time for it to become live? Thanks again, Iain.

Great, you are very welcome! Please, keep me posted with your recovery progress. All the best,

Jason, Think of how many individual blog posts you're going to need to write in 2013, 2014, and beyond (one hundred, two hundred, more?) and how much social outreach you'll have to accomplish over that time in order to build the blog into a really effective marketing tool for your company. Then you  gotta wonder how you can maintain interest and focus writing all those posts on the specific subject of "atlanta plumbing company" or "choosing an atlanta plumbing company".  On top of that, gotta wonder how many of those social profiles you reach out to week after week after week who are going to want to share your content on the specific subject of "atlanta plumbing company" or "choosing an atlanta plumbing company". And then you gotta wonder about the readers and how their interest will be maintained while you're writing only on the specific subject of "atlanta plumbing company" or "choosing an atlanta plumbing company". I'd say that you're on the right path in thinking that your titles seem a bit spammy, but you've gotta get off the path and get on the highway.  On the highway, your blog can reach its greater potential--a vehicle that can reach and engage a community that is hungry for a wide variety of topics within your theme. As someone here at SEOmoz is fond of saying, content needs to be exceptional, inspirational, unique, credible, fun, and beneficial to share in order to accomplish it's goal of being an effective marketing tool. I would start with that, when contemplating your titles, and then write your posts accordingly.

Yes in terms of a redirect the target URL is the new page that you are redirecting the original one to, so just add the URL of page you are redirecting to.

Hi Iain- that's what this community is all about isn't it great! I take it the specific urls you mention above you mean is it ok to redirect to a page with a completely different name? The answer is yes if that is the new location of that page then your redirect is absolutely fine. I have had a quick check and your redirects are setup fine well done - happy seoing

BTW, Thank You!

Hi Sanaa, Thanks for writing in and sorry that your having some issues with your crawl. It is difficult for us to say what may be the problem without knowing what site is that you are trying to set up a campaign for and how you are setting up the campaign. I looked into your account and found several campaigns that are only receiving 1-2 page crawls, but all three of the URLs that those campaigns are set up for either redirect to a different domain or have a meta-robots noindex directive on them. Our crawler will not follow a redirect to a separate domain because it only crawls pages on the domain that the campaign was set up for and it will respect the noindex directive, so it is correct that we wouldn't be able to crawl any of those sites with the way the campaigns are set up. I can look into the specific issue you are writing in about more directly if you let me know the website you are trying to have crawled and the way you are setting up the campaign for that site. If you prefer to keep that information private, you can email us at help@seomoz.org and we can investigate it that way. I hope this helps. -Chiaryn

John, thank you so much for your help with this. It's very much appreciated. That does explain why I couldn't find the robots.txt file. Is there another way to resolve the 404 error warning that SEOMoz is telling me about? 404 : UserPreemptionError: http://www.iainmoran.com/comments/feed/ I understand that if I disable comments on my WP site, that would fix the issue, but don't really want to do that if it can be avoided. Thanks again, Iain.

Thanks for your response. 1 more question should i apply noindex, follow in meta on all of my component pages. Because i really don't see a reason of applying noindex.

Hi Chandu, Webmasters will be your friend on this one. I would recommend heading to the landing page of your site under webmasters then selecting Configuration->URL Parameters The errors that are showing in your image have a number of parameters in them, try to determine which parameter is forcing the 404 and tell google what to do with it within the URL parameters section. Once complete, try to test your change, download and store your 404 issues, clear the errors in webmasters and then wait until the site is recrawled. Hope this helps. Dan

yeah i think to answer we'd definitely need to see the robots content. have you determined those pages are truly not indexed at all? like, have you googled specific sentences from those pages and returned zero results? if not, do so and make a list of all the pages that aren't being crawled by Google and compare that to your robots.txt... Or just make a new robots.txt file for each domain. Shouldn't take more than a minute or two

You can do it yourself or hire someone who will do a good job. Who does the writing is less important than the quality of the description, its ability to convert the buyer and its viability in the search engines. I write all of my own descriptions... but I am really familiar with what I sell and would not trust it to anybody else.

Hi Dan Hmm that's a little strange. Two things; is WordPress updated? Do you get the normal URLs when viewing in your browser? have you tried Screaming Frog SEO Spider? It's free to crawl up to 500 pages Although it won't get the actual HTML on the pages, it could solve the URL issue perhaps. This blackhat world thread has a few options too. -Dan

ah so you want regular expressions ? im confused - if regular expressions its not really mass writing - that would be as i described

Extremely helpful insight Marie - I will be contacting you directly soon. It appears that the duplicate content you've found (and other dupe content we've found) is actually our content that other sites have repurposed. Seems like Google has determined our site as the culprit, so this would be an issue we need to address - the only thought that comes to mind right away is adding an 'Author' tag, then start working on what appears to be a hefty cleanup project, something that looks like you are an expert on and will most likely be working directly with you in the near future! The 2nd level pages that have little content and lots of links are 'noindex,follow' but I'm nervous about the number of these tags throughout our site which could be seen as spammy to a search engine. Of note, the 2nd level page section you have found ranks quite well since it is a subdomain which is interesting. Our suspicion is that since we made the 404 (200 success) error that Google detected on Dec. 9, 2011, we have been on some sort of Google 'watch-list' and any little thing we do incorrectly that they find, we immediately are penalized. The homepage description of our company is reused on industry directories that we are listed on, so perhaps we must consider re-writing our description to be unique, and adding more content to the homepage would be a good thing and is certainly easily doable.

that is correct

Thanks Mohammad. I am glad it is all resolved. Yes, broken or malformed links can often be like gremlins and cause all kinds of odd things to show up in crawl reports. Ciao! Dana

I agree with the others- Money Talks with Google, a walk through of the issues with the promise of paying for an advertising may be the quickest form of communication. Sadly, they are making many changes there, a few things to keep in mind: 1. NAP - the absolute same everywhere on the web. 2. Verification Process/ Ownership/ Author Tags/ Publisher Tags- EVERYTHING is through a domain level email address. ALL references to your client's URL/ Business needs to be the exact same email address. Good luck- it's a jungle in there- frankly Google+ is modifying and merging so quickly this spring it's difficult to keep up.

If you are strict about categories - 1 category per post, no exceptions, then yes, that should work.  It's when you tick two boxes that you get into trouble. As far as the syndication issue, it's not so much the "syndicated posts contain very small snippets" that is getting you.  Perform that search again: "Website Analytics 101: The 4 Web Metrics You Must Master" Click on the networkedblogs.com link.  It takes you directly to your site.  It's acting like a redirect (not sure it's technically a 301, but it's at least an instant meta-refresh.) So the way Google sees it, that is your link.  Look at the link when you get forwarded. It's your link + UTM info.  That's the "first time" your link is in Google - and yes, the redirect must have more juice than the original.

Great news there is a plugin you might like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/ ps I would still use a maged Wordpress host they will speed up your site and keep it safe. Happy it is fixed