Crawl Attempt Errors & Homepage Not Ranking

[FurnitureGeek]

Hi all,

I have scanned the community forum thoroughly to find a solution to this issue and noticed some detailed and informed responses, but I am not sure which apply to the issue we are currently having.

We are receiving a lot of 803 Crawl Attempt Errors on a weekly basis for our site www.mangofurniture.co.uk and also our homepage isn't ranking and I can't help but think that the two are linked. We have some rankings for the internal pages and have a couple of other sites that use the same template as www.mangofurniture.co.uk that are doing well with no crawl attempt errors and strong homepage rankings.

There are a lot of great resources out there on the Moz forum and elsewhere but I am little unsure what applies to our problem or whether to two are linked at all. We have tried rewriting the homepage and developing the internal linking system but to no success as yet. Also, because the site is fairly new so the link profile is quite small at present.

Any advice regarding this would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hi Craig,

We aren't SEOs or web devs on the help team, so it is hard for me to say how the errors you are seeing effect your rankings or exactly how to fix them, but I can direct you to an insightful post from one of our long time members of our community here: https://moz.com/community/q/how-do-fix-an-803-error

From Sha's answer there, it looks like this shouldn't disrupt Googlebot's ability to index your site and I do see 303 results when I run a site:www.mangofurniture.co.uk search in Google, so it does look like they are indexing your site and I'm not really certain why your homepage wouldn't be ranking. There are a lot of SEO related reasons that could happen.

Since I can't provide more insight into the SEO side of this question, I'm switching the category over to Technical SEO Issues for you, so you can hopefully get a better answer from one of the experts here.

[Everett]

Hello Craig,

When I go to http://www.mangofurniture.co.uk I see a Rel Canonical tag referencing this URL version of the page: http://www.mangofurniture.co.uk/home.

When I go to http://www.mangofurniture.co.uk/home I am redirected (301) to http://www.mangofurniture.co.uk.

This has the effect on Googlebot of being an infinitely looping redirect.

The solution is to change the Rel Canonical tag on your home page to be http://www.mangofurniture.co.uk by removing the "/home" directory on the end.