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    • apmgsmith
      apmgsmith last edited by

      I've just joined SEOMOZ last week and have not even received my first full-crawl yet, but as you know, I do get the re-crawl report.  It shows I have 50 301's and 20 rel canonical's.  I'm still very confused as to what I'm supposed to fix...And, all the rel canonical's are my sites main pages, so hence I am still equally confused as to what the canonical is doing and how do I properly setup my site.  I'm a technical person and can grasp most things fairly quickly, but on this the light bulb is taking a little while longer to fire-up 🙂

      If my question wasn't total jibberish and you can help shed some light, I would be forever grateful.

      Thank you.

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      • wojkwasi
        wojkwasi last edited by

        The 301s are warnings and could be in place for a reason - you can also download a spreadsheet with all the crawl findings.. it's really useful.

        Generally, fix all the errors (in red) if any.. fix warnings as required & examine the notices

        For example, I have a site that has 100+ canonicals - all fine & a couple of warnings (titles too long but only over by 1 or 2 characters)

        Hope that helps a little 😉

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        • apmgsmith
          apmgsmith @wojkwasi last edited by

          Thanks Woj - it helps..a little :).  SEO is definitely a journey...

          On another note, I just read the post on your company website regarding your process of developing the Kwasi robot logo - very interesting read, I enjoyed it.

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          • wojkwasi
            wojkwasi @apmgsmith last edited by

            Thanks Charles 🙂 I'm really happy with him 🙂

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