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    • SoundinTheory
      SoundinTheory last edited by

      How much notice should be paid to the warnings on the SEO Moz crawl reports? We manage a fairly large property site and a lot of the errors on the crawl reports relate to automated responses. As a matter of priority which of the list below will have negative affects with the search engines?

      Temporary RedirectToo Many On-Page LinksOverly-Dynamic URLTitle Element Too Long (> 70 Characters)Title Missing or EmptyDuplicate Page ContentDuplicate Page TitleMissing Meta Description Tag

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      • RobertChapman
        RobertChapman last edited by

        My advice, they are all warnings for a reason....

        Missing Meta Description - your missing the opportunity to include a description of what your pages is about (google doesn't always select your meta description). A good meta description can improve CTR of your SERPs which is an SEO Indicator, its also a missing signal (though not a powerful one) to Google about what your page is about.

        Duplicate Page Title - this is the first indicator to Google about what your page is about and is an important indictor of what keywords your page should be found for. How will google know which page to prioritise? Again this is also included in the SERPs - relevance to the reader = improved CTR

        Duplicate Page Content - never a good signal to Google, but depends if the pages are identical or not.

        Too Many On Page Links - depends where these warnings are and how you think about site architecture/internal linking - loads of links on the homepage mean more link juice is divided between pages you may not want to prioritise

        Title missing or empty, again your missing an opportunity to tell Google and users in the SERPs what your page is about .

        I wouldn't worry to much about the Title Element being to long - its not a detractor but in the SERPs the headline is cut down to 70 characters - so just make sure you get your message in their. Overly Dynamic URL's, i'll be honest I don't know much about the impact.

        Temporary Redirects again not to sure.

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        • SoundinTheory
          SoundinTheory @RobertChapman last edited by

          Thanks for your help. A lot of the pages that are showing up with these errors relate to search results or to the submission of a contact form so it's not about attracting traffic more making sure nothing detracts from the site as a whole.

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