Page with "Missing Title Tag" isn't a page

[canadageorge]

Hello,

I am going through the various errors that the Moz Pro Crawl report and some non-existent pages keep coming up in the report.

For example, one error category is "Missing Title Tag" with one page identified. But this page http://www.immigroup.com/news/“http%3A/crs.yorku.ca”?page=2 isn't real. It would have been a 404 were there not a redirect for everything that is /news/gobbledygook to /news.

So my question is: when moz (or GA for that matter) identifies these pages as "real" and having errors, do I need to take this seriously? And what do I do about it?

Thanks!

George

[DirkC]

Hi George,

The reason why these pages are identified as real is that they are real; try these url's in web-sniffer.net and you'll see that they generate a 200 status code. They are certainly not redirected.

They originate on the page http://www.immigroup.com/news/top-8-canadian-immigration-law-schools - you put double quotes around the links to the universities hence the strange url's. Apart from the fact that it's generating duplicate content (all these pages are identical apart from the url), it's not really dramatic & easy to fix.

Personally, I would be more worried about the H1 titles which are identical on most of the pages, the meta descriptions which are missing, the mixing of languages (english, portuguese?), the heavy images (>100K). Your internal linking could be improved as well, sometimes you link to the non-www version, sometimes to a https version, which are then redirected to the www version.

Try crawling your site with a tool like Screaming Frog - it's a quick audit of your site's vital parameters, and shows you what & where you can improve your site (it's also the way I found these problems on your site)

rgds

Dirk

[canadageorge]

Thanks very much, Dirk.