Our Duplicate Content Crawled by SEOMoz Roger, but Not in Google Webmaster Tools

[RichSteel]

Hi Guys,

We're new here and I couldn't find the answer to my question.  Here it goes:

We had SEOMoz's Roger Crawl all of our pages and he came up with quite a few erros (Duplicate Content, Duplicate Page Titles, Long URL's).

Per our CTO and using our Google Webmaster Tools, we informed Google not to index those Duplicate Content Pages.  For our Long URL Errors, they are redirected to SEF URL's.

What we would like to know is if Roger is able to know that we have instructed Google to not index these pages.  My concern is

1. Should we still be concerned if Roger is still crawling those pages and the errors are not showing up in our Webmaster Tools

2. Is there a way we can let Roger know so they don't come up as errors in our SEOMoz Tools?

Thanks so much,

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[RyanKent]

In order to answer your questions, we need to understand exactly how you "instructed Google".

If you went into Google Webmaster Tools and changed settings such as parameters of URLs, then only Google will know about those changes. Roger wont know and neither will Bing or any other crawler.

Whenever possible I recommend making the proper adjustments on your site so all crawlers know and understand how to crawl your website.

**1) Should we still be concerned if Roger is still crawling those pages and the errors are not showing up in our Webmaster Tools  **

Yes. First of all, Bing + Yahoo = 30% of the search market and they will experience the same trouble as Roger. Second, by informing Google directly you are making changes in a way that make it impossible for tools such as Roger to provide you with actionable data.

2) Is there a way we can let Roger know so they don't come up as errors in our SEOMoz Tools?

Not that I am aware of. I wish Roger made better friends with Googlebot and could learn all the personal settings, but that was not possible the last time I checked.

[RichSteel]

Thanks Kent!