Severe Health issue on my site through Webmaster tools

[VictorVC]

Yes you are correct. I forgot to mention (sorry) that I do use S.E.V. It allows you to create a robots.txt and lets you choose pages to block. However, even when you choose allow all, by default it blocks certain files. Go Daddy tells me they are only system files but Google tells me an important page is blocked.

[VictorVC]

Below is the robots.txt Website Tonight Creates when I tell it to allow all pages:

User-agent: *
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /_backup/
Disallow: /_mygallery/
Disallow: /_temp/
Disallow: /_tempalbums/
Disallow: /_tmpfileop/
Disallow: /dbboon/
Disallow: /Flash/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /statshistory/
Disallow: /WstxSearchResults.html
Disallow: /WstxSearchResults.php
Disallow: /QSC/

[SEOExecutive20]

Can you place the following in your browser and replace website with your domain name and www or non www in front.  website.com/robots.txt

Let me know if you see the same stuff you sent me in your last response

[VictorVC]

Yes. When I type www.shakes4life.com/robots.txt the same list shows.

[VictorVC]

Is there something on it that would be detrimental to my SERPS?

[SEOExecutive20]

Is Google webmaster tools giving you the specific name of the files that are being blocked?

[SEOExecutive20]

When did Google last index your site? You can check this through webmaster tools. When did you instal the robots.txt file.  The reason I ask: If Google's last crawl was before you uploaded your robots file then that could be the issue.  Please look at these statistics and verify this before we move further.

[SEOExecutive20]

Also, the following are duplicates: http://www.shakes4life.com/shakeology.html  & http://www.shakes4life.com

[VictorVC]

It was just crawled. And it was after robots.txt was uploaded. This is the page it lists: siteUtil.js

[SEOExecutive20]

This is a javascript file and I don't see it being an issue unless Google thinks your hiding it to be spammy .  Also, there are some that say it's a benefit to block js files from the search  for SEO purposes. Here is an example of that situation: http://www.seomofo.com/advanced/do-not-let-google-crawl-javascript.html  I think since this is out of your control and goes by the standard of how Godaddy sets up there sites, then it shouldn't be an issue.

[VictorVC]

Oh OK great. Thanks so much for your help. I just got nervous because Google puts up the Severe Health Issue warning everytime I get crawled.

[SEOExecutive20]

Your welcome! I'm also sending the other side of the story not to confuse you but to allow you to make a decision based on both sides:  http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/8nyxCtv9RHM

[VictorVC]

Yes thanks. I foolishly renamed my home page and caused a duplicate page. Website tonight will not allow me to do a 301 redirect. I put a canonical tag on the /shakeology. Should this do the trick?

[VictorVC]

Since I can't 301 it, would it be bad to delete the dupe page?

[SEOExecutive20]

Personally, that's what I would do is delete it.  Unless, there is a reason you need that page.

[VictorVC]

I really do appreciate all of your help. Here's the issue I'm having with this though... After I renamed the homepage file to add /shakeology.html to it (because I thought it would be beneficial to have a main keyword in the url) Website Tonight only shows me the homepage.com/shakeology.html and not the homepage.com. I'm afraid that if I delete /shakeology.html I will show neither one and in essence, according to Website Tonight just be deleting my homepage. I'm not sure how to properly accomplish what I'm looking to do without screwing myself any further??

[SEOExecutive20]

I found some great info here that I believe explains it: http://support.godaddy.com/help/2986/organizing-your-website-using-the-organize-site-page

[VictorVC]

Yes I saw that but unfortunately the organize your site page on website tonight only shows the new page. I'm afraid to delete it and lose both.

[Dr-Pete]

Sounds like SEO Executive has got you covered on the Godaddy front - just wanted to point out a couple of things:

(1) I'm not seeing a preview for your home-page, and I had trouble connecting to it the first time. It seems to be cahced, so this could be a fluke.

(2) Not sure if this is part of the Godaddy code, but there's a really weird tag on the home-page:

name="canonical tag" content=""/>

That might just be a reference, but it doesn't do anything. If it's supposed to actually be a canonical, then something is broken.

[VictorVC]

Unfortunately no. The edit page section of Website Tonight only shows the newer homepage.com/shakeology.html version and not the original homepage.com

I am afraid to delete the homepage.com/shakeology.html in fear that I will be left with neither one.

You probably aren't seeing the preview of the .com/shakeology.html because it is not the indexed homepage. It shows for the homepage.com version. The canonical tag was me trying to redirect search engines from the new (unwanted) homepage to the original because Website tonight won't allow me to 301 it.