Crawl went from a few errors to thousands when I added Blog

[CMCD]

I am new here. I recently got the errors from SEOmoz crawl on my site down to just a handful from a couple hundred. So I took the leap and moved my blog to www.mysitename.com/blog (which I see recommended here) and now my errors are in the thousands.

My blog which was a separate url has pages back to 2007.

I am not sure if it is appropriate to post my site url in a question here?

One error that really stands out is this:

Description

<dd>Using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which URL should be seen as canonical.</dd>

On my root page I have:

rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysitename.com"/>

Thanks for any help...

[AlanMosley]

This canonical error is a notive not a error correct?

if so it is just letting you know they are there, it is important you dont have canonicals in pages and not know.

Canonicals in every page pointing to itself was seen as a good idea to help protect against screen scaping, but recently Bing has said that it is a incorrect use and that they will lose trust in your canonicls if used in this way.

[CMCD]

Yes it is a "notice", so it is just information to me not an error.

Thank you!

I also have several 404 Red Status Codes any idea what these are?

I read the recent posts about them and that they may disappear on a future crawl...

[AlanMosley]

What is the URL i will tell you if they are real of not.

[CMCD]

removed link name

[AlanMosley]

I found over 300 broken links, that was only a sample, i would suggest there is many more.

Hiow many did SEOMoz report.

[CMCD]

Can you tell me where to look for SEOMoz list of broken links?

[CMCD]

This post is deleted!

[AlanMosley]

To use SEOMoz crawler I rgink tou need to be a memeber,

You can use Bing or Google WMT tio find them.

I can assure you you have more then 2

[CMCD]

Is this the Crawl Test?

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[AlanMosley]

Thats not the ones you get with a pro account, but it prooably does much the same.

I use the Bing SEO Toolkit to crawl your site. But SEOMoz should find much the same