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    • Dirty
      Dirty last edited by

      Is there a way to remove old URL's that are still being used for my keywords for my on page optimization? They are giving me grades of F since they no longer exist and if I change the URL to the current one, the grade becomes an A, but they are still showing after the new crawl.

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      • Valarlf
        Valarlf last edited by

        If the pages are no longer the best you can do is 301 redirects

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        • Dirty
          Dirty @Valarlf last edited by

          they are redirected but seomoz is still using them for my on page rankings. For example sometimes it shows the same keyword 2-3 separate times each with a different url yet I only have one active url for that keyword, the old ones that seomos is pulling are redirected and some seomoz is pulling the worng page entirely, not an old page but for example I have a for my product in brown but seomox is using my gold page for brown keyword so my main question is can we control or save what url seomoz uses for on page rankings

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          • Valarlf
            Valarlf @Dirty last edited by

            You use this tool http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new ? or are seeing your results from your campaign. It is very likely that if you see results from your campaign must wait a week to be corrected.

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            • Dirty
              Dirty @Dirty last edited by

              im nto sure i understand your answer, i sort of use both, if you go to your campaign there is the on page link, there it shows all keywords and the grades for all of them, for my keywords though its getting 2 grades, one for the correct url whihc is an A and one for the old url (same keyword) and thats an F, yes i can click on the wrong url and put in the right url and regrade it and I get an A but it sucks to look at my overall on page report and  see dozens of grade F's.  I want to clean that up but cant get seomoz to stop pulling the old url and the thing is the old url doesnt exist its a temp redirect to a standard page, so im wondering if I cant tell seomoz not to use a certain url in my on page ranking and save that data or delte a url or somehting so my overall report card had no F's, below is an example, the first url is redirected so not sure how seomoz is grading that or are they grading the redirected page? and if so can i stop that or do i need permanent 301 to solve that, i could 301 to the bottom url

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              A Line Dresses

              /Dresses/Style/A-Line-Dresses | F | No-change-icon | no data |
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              A Line Dresses

              /Dresses/Style/A-Line | A | No-change-icon | 16 | Ranking_up_arrow 1 |

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              • JoelDay
                JoelDay last edited by

                Hey there,

                Thanks for the question. If you have some old deprecated URLs that On-Page is still trying to check, you can get rid of them by click the Stop Running Weekly button as seen here: http://www.screencast.com/t/r7HO1zkuS

                You can then either wait for them to automatically be generated for ranking keywords or manually enter them into your On-Page Report Card.

                I hope that helps.

                Cheers,
                Joel.

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