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I think in this case you're fine using a 302 since you don't need to pass any pagerank onto the shopping cart. It can be considered a "temporary" redirect in some ways because you're redirecting the user to their own shopping cart, which changes for each user.

I like to keep the canonical neat so it looks better in the serps so as to encourage future users to click on it (people like clean, readable URLs), so I try not to use unnecessarily complex URLs. I have had very good luck in canonicalizing messy URLs with decent authority to new, completely non-ranking but clean, URLs and not only keeping but growing page authority. And I have a fairly large site which is crawled regularly so I do value consistency--whichever page is set as the canonical will eventually become the ranking page, so current rank is not the biggest issue to me. In the long run, consistency will make your life (and the life of anyone who follows you in your present position) easier. (That being said, it wouldn't hurt anything if you prefer to use what is currently ranking.)

Alright, so I don't particularly think I need to be using this for my purposes, but thank you all for clarifying this issue for me. I greatly appreciate it! Special thanks to Chris and Leslie who continually help me out. I especially appreciate your consistent help! Best, Ruben

Hi If you're URL / permalink is not changing than in theory all the off-page SEO for the page will be unaffected since the page still exists. So external link juice still has some where to go (to coin a phrase). But beware of the anchor text of the link (well be aware) - more about this below: Andy makes a good point in that if you are changing manufacturer than most likely some of the text will change ( obviously "Nike" changes to "Gap" for example). So from an on-page SEO perspective the page has changed and this might affect how well the particular page ranks for "Nike Green Sweater" since quite obviously that particular page is no longer about Nike Green Sweaters and assuming the search engine bot is doing its job it will work this out and adjust indexing for that brand specific keyword combination. To deal with that potential problem, I would suggest adding a link to the Nike Green Sweater page on the Gap Green Sweater page - you can do this quite naturally by adding a "related products" link or "people who bought this also bought" or "looking for Nike Green Sweater?" (for example). This passes some of the link juice for your page to the Nike Green Sweater page. Helping Nike Green Sweater Wearers...or Another Reason for an Internal Link: Creating an internal link to the Nike Green Sweater page also helps people who came to your site through a link that explicitly referred to "Nike Green Sweaters" and were looking for "Nike Green Sweaters". (You could use a tool like AHREFs or Google Webmaster or Open Site Explorer to find the anchor text being used by people externally linking to you to get a sense of the scale of this "problem". )

I have a customer that is using GoDaddy website hosting (at least according to BuiltWith) and I'm experiencing this same issue. Any updates on this experiment from user rsigg? I'd love to know if I can remove this from my customer's robots file... FWIW, Netrepid is a hosting provider for colocation, infrastructure and applications (website hosting being considered an application) and we would never force a crawl delay on a Wordpress install! Not hating on the other hosting service providers... #justsayin

H tags are also how people with screen readers often navigate. Not including them is making your site even harder for someone using such a device than it needs to be. Screen readers read out all the text on a site, navigation, links etc (all super fast). Many people using screen readers will navigate by heading tags because it's easier to get to the content.

simple as everyone else has stated, there is no relationship. The day a website goes live and can start being indexed, having content added, gaining links etc will start improving the DA, not the day it was purchased. But older website's can also have a lot of bad links pointing to them from previous poor agencies / in-house staff, building bad links so in theory old domains could rank lower by previous black hat techniques to improve rankings.

Thank you! It makes sense. On the top left corner of the bar email is not a link. So I suppose this is not where the fault is located. BUT, I had forgotten the mailto: prefix in the email link in the footer. I changed it there. Let's hope that was the case Thank you for the feedback

Thank you. I've struggled with it only to realise I was issuing the wrong keyword.

Thanks  ! As simple as that

Thanks i strongly agree and much prefer Moz for technical seo tools from what i have seen, However i am just looking for any feedback on what they offer to advise some co-workers, It is bloody expensive overtime also,

Hi Marcus, Firstly, thank you very much for taking the time to make such a detailed response to my question. I truly appreciate it! I have a couple questions if you dont mind. I noticed that another website that has clearly taken information from our article and is now ranking above us. Whilst they have made some changes, they have clearly significantly referenced from our article with no link or reference. I plan on getting in contact with them however I would like to know if you have experienced this or if you know of a way of letting google know? Have a look for yourself, you will see they are remarkably similar and our article is much older: http://www.careerfaqs.com.au/news/news-and-views/10-high-paying-jobs-you-wont-need-a-degree-for/ Also, it seems that our authority for both page and domain seem to only increase very slowly even with large growth of traffic and social. Do you have any recommendations to get this boosted? I have made all the changes you recommended, again thank you for sharing these. In regards to using H2 in the menu's etc. How do I go about fixing this? Is this something my developer will need to do? Kind regards, Will

Thank you, per your instructions i have changed robots.txt exactly like: User-agent: * Disallow: As you can see there's no Allow: / and Disallow line is blank is that correct?

The on-page grader lists the pages that rank in the top fifty for a keyword in one of your campaigns. In other words if you are seeing a phrase, even if the associated page is graded an F, it is because that phrase brought up that page in the top 50 search results. In general the rule is one phrase per page, but it is not uncommon for a page to rank for a group of related long-tail queries. However if a page is an F for a query, you may have to make a lot of changes for it to grade well for that query, which would likely have a bad effect on the query that is is meant to rank for. It would probably be better for you to figure out what elements of the page caused it to come up for the phrase it got an F for, and make a new page keeping those related elements and adding content relevant to this phrase. [The letter grades are not supposed to be the final word on the probable success of a page, btw.] As far as whether your client is causing significant changes in Google's behavior, I would think not or else a lot of SEOs would be spending a lot of time typing in strategic search terms. [Though perhaps if they are very low search volume terms and bringing up results on the fifth page, it might not be impossible that that is what Moz is picking up. But it still wouldn't be important.]

Welcome. One thing I find really useful is the "Email Updates" button here on the Q&A posts. When I find a question I am interested in learning more about, I can click the "Email Updates" and then I will receive responses to the question via email. It's a great way to follow the topics you are curious about and tap into some of the expert knowledge here.

Any chance i could get an asnwer to this?

I actually would do both but for time issues, Noindex is already fine.

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Help Team here at Moz. In order to help you troubleshoot this, I'm going to need a little more information. Can you email us at help@moz.com and let us know the domain you're referring to? Once we have that, we'll be able to look into this further! Cheers, Erin

Thanks guys, I see there isn't an all in one / magic pill tool to use. Regards, Benny

Hi, To answer the question so far the grade of the page is A . I have had a look at this issue over the weekend and the problem seems to be the following http://www.eafs.eu/contracting-europe/working-in-netherlands/dutch-payroll/ This page is graded as Page Authority 1 and is the URL format used on the navigation, canonical meta tag and sitemap. This page has an .htaccess directive to strip (.php & add a trailing slash). Ref: http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eafs.eu%2Fcontracting-europe%2Fworking-in-netherlands%2Fdutch-payroll%2F http://www.eafs.eu/contracting-europe/working-in-netherlands/dutch-payroll.php The correct URL and not used anywhere on the website but is graded as PA 12 REF: http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eafs.eu%2Fcontracting-europe%2Fworking-in-netherlands%2Fdutch-payroll.php So should I be using the full URL with .php on the website or use the cleaned/canonical URL on the site and why is there such a difference in Page Authority? Am i missing something?