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Patrick's answer gives you a great check list. I'd only add that you within Moz Analytics you can customize the crawler to only report on a certain portion of the site if problems still arise in displaying your data. Still, by using 301 redirection from the old subdomain to new location, cleaning up any old referencing links, and blocking further indexation you should see the errors disappear. Cheers!

Hi Cayenne. This can happen in cases where Google views the mobile site as a non-mobile or as the only available result to a desktop search query.  Here's a recent blog post from Google during at the time of the change: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/04/faqs-april-21st-mobile-friendly.html What you'll want to check is the mobile friendliness and load speeds of both the mobile and desktop sites. At times people have seen very slow loading desktop sites with lots of PageSpeed issues get outranked by the lighter mobile versions. Next, use the various checks mentioned on that page to ensure that mobile.domain.com is indeed viewed as mobile by Google. And here's Moz's guide to provide an overall picture of what the mobile site should accomplish: https://moz.com/learn/seo/mobile-optimization Cheers!

Hi Miriam. I agree with  your gut feeling. What is wrong is wrong and one should not play games falsify facts and present them as true.... not at least with Google. They are smarter than everybody of us out here. I'll stick with the following tactic: Find a person or a partner in these countries who is ready to genuinely partner with me... or at least is willing to take calls, talk to leads and direct them to me. A local listing will be created for this/these guy/guys when we have genuine NAPs. Focus on organically promoting my website for these locations without local listings. Thanks for your help everybody. KS__

Hi Paul! Our tool has a 90% tolerance for duplicate content, which means it will flag any content that has 90% of the same code between pages. This includes all the source code on the page and not just the viewable text. You can run your own tests using this tool: http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php. In the case of http://www.ukhost4u.co.uk/blog and http://www.ukhost4u.co.uk/blog/author/trafficsource, these pages are 98% similar, which is why they're being flagged. We have a great article about best practices for fixing Duplicate Content here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content Thanks! Kevin Help Team

Hi Dirk, Good explanation, that makes sense. Thanks!

Aaah - that's what I was afraid of! Thanks anyway!

Hi Kristina, Thanks for that, I really appreciate it. I'll follow Rand's tweet for additional insights.

Hi Landon, Everyone else has some very good advice here. Moz also has some helpful resources on Local SEO that you might find useful since you are targeting a local search area: Local Search Rank Factors (2014) Local SEO Audit How to Have a Successful Local SEO Campaign (2015) Local SEO Articles Local Learning Center Definitely agree with the others though - it seems like you need to address some other important SEO elements like site speed, title tag & meta description optimization, h1 tag optimization, adding relevant schema markups, and improving the overall website content. Good luck!

But if you are trying to get a lot of backlinks from unrelated site then you have to aware of the output. Relevancy among the sites are one factors for ranking in google. So if you are going for a long term ranking its better to have a solid foundation built for what you are targeting for.

Thanks Matt and Jordan. Really good answers. cheers

Followup from Miriam - the issue is now resolved. Yay!

For the last 2 years my site tanked and I have tried everything under the sun to fix it and nothing ever changed it. I was going crazy. I just realized that I had this set on much of all my links on my site and I am wondering if this is what happened to me. Did you say that you were effected by the same thing? Did you recover?

I used to try different methods to increase the Domain Authority but i still didn't get the exact reason why the DA of a page will increase a decrease. So what i do now if keep building quality links and use the social signals as well. I have noticed that the DA of my page has increased gradually. But i do not really care about increasing the DA now.

Thanks for sharing Matt.. It's indeed a fantastic initiative by Moz to educate customers like me.

Hi I'm pretty sure that it cuts out from the 801st onwards from your list - so 1-800 will be processed, the rest will be ommitted. As you say, uploading a list will get round it.  Alternatively, just bring up the URL in Chrome, duplicate the page 3 or 4 times, insert a line break in your list on line 800, 1600, 2400 etc and just upload the blocks in the different tabs and run.

To add to Patrick's great response, this page describes what you are seeing. When you try to go to a page on your site that does not exist, you seem to correctly get an error page. But the content of the page does not necessarily reflect the HTTP response returned by the server. Your server is saying that the page was found, although the content of the page says it wasn't found. [A 404 response from the server simply means Not Found.] If you look in your Google Webmaster Tools under Crawl > Crawl Errors you will see a tab called Soft 404. A soft 404 is a page that says it is not found but is not returning an actual 404, not found, response. [I always wondered how Google could tell--I was given the answer that if Google sees that a whole bunch of different URLs bring up the same page, which does not return a 404 response, it assumes that that page says it is an error page and labels it a soft 404.] If you want to test whether a URL on your site is correctly returning a 404, you can use Fetch as Google to see if it returns Not Found or else there are a number of free server response checkers online.

Building on Patrick's answer using Robots.txt was the fastest way for things to take effect, but if implemented wrong can impact you pretty bad. In addition to adding the exclusions in the Robots.txt, I also put in a removal request to remove the pages with parameters from googles index using the Google Url Removal tool, this combined with the other options helped clean up my results in the google index. Hope this helps.