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I have an issue with my temporary redirects. The seomoz campaign is showing many pages are redirecting to the homepage.

However, the pages it identifies are old pages and have been deleted and are not on the sitemap.

How do i solve this?

one of my SEOmoz pro campaigns has given me the warning:

Too many on-page links

and the page in question is my html sitemap.

How do i resolve this because I obviously need my sitemap. How do i get around this?

I have recently built an e-commerce website for the company I work at.

Its built on opencart.

Say for example we have a chair for sale. The url will be:

www.domain.com/best-offers/cool-chair

Thats fine, seomoz is crawling them all fine and reporting any errors under them url great.

On each product listing we have several options and zoom options (allows the user to zoom in to the image to get a more detailed look).

When a different zoom type is selected it adds on to the url, so for example:

www.domain.com/best-offers/cool-chair?zoom=1

and there are 3 different zoom types. So effectively its taking for urls as different when in fact they are all one url. and Seomoz has interpreted it this way, and crawled 10000 pages(it thinks exist because of this) and thrown up 20000 errors.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

I think I have sorted the 301s now. I agree I should really do that before launch. all a learning process.

Yer thats a good idea. When you mean search engine friendly content, can you expand on that please?

Good point, I really need to do some of that. I was thinking about that Ontolo tool. Any others you can think of?

Wow, thanks for a great answer. You should write a YouMoz post on what to do with a complete site overhaul.

Moving on, I have done some of the things you suggested, I have done the non-www to www redirect. I have also set my preferred domain in webmaster tools. And also I redirected /index.php to my domain address.

When you mention clean up the php, do you mean clean the code up a bit or something else? I was going to give the Ontolo tool a go to see if that could help with link building prospects.

I will aim to clean up URLS this week, which will mean resubmitting a new sitemap. Btw, every time I add a new page to my website, does that mean I have to resubmit a sitemap to Webmaster Tools.

One of the best tips I have heard on Q&A btw. Thanks for the help.

We have an old domain that we have had for years now. And recently. December, we completely redesigned the site, I mean a complete overhaul, design, architecture, asp to php for example. Resubmitted to google via webmaster with a new site map etc.

Our website for reference is www.completeoffice.co.uk.

We are trying to rank in UK google, www.google.co.uk, for the term office refurbishment kent (we are on page 2) and office refurbishment (we are on page 17).

This is confusing me, because thats 7 pages lower than we were originally, before the site design, its better seo wise, duplicate content is none, title tage meta tags all correct, domain authority has doubled from 12 to 24 in a few months all in an effort to rank better. our homepage and office refurb pages both got an A on the on page SEOmoz tool test. So we dont understand why we are not ranking highly. It seems sites, much uglier and less seo friendly than our with same or lower domain authority are ranking at least 10 pages higher than us.

Why is this? Can anyone help or give us a few suggestions.

All help greatly appreciated. SEOmozzers.

The question says it all really. Google analytics shows me that my top 2 pages are my domain address and index.php, which are exactly the same. Is it best to leave it like this or redirect index.php to my domain address?

Perhaps time now to give a little update about this issue since its been a few months. would be greatly appreciated.

Wow, what a great answer. Thanks bunch, actually helped alot

I have recently set up a campaign for www.completeoffice.co.uk. Im the in-house developer there. When the crawl diagnostics completed, i went to check the results, and to my surprise, it had well over 100 missing or empty title tags. I then clicked it to see what pages, and nearly all the pages it say have missing or empty title tags, DO NOT EXIST.

This has really confused me and need help figuring out how to solve this. Can anyone help?

Attached image is a screen shot of some of the links it showed me on crawl diagnostics, nearly all of these do not exist.

Will the relation Canonical tag in the head section of the actual pages help?

For example,

The actual page that exist is: www.completeoffice.co.uk/Products.php

Whereas, when crawled it actually showed www.completeoffice.co.uk/Products/Products.php

Will have the rel can tag in the header of the real products.php solve this?

in my title tag i want to have:

3D Renders of Office Refurbishment & Interior Design Kent | Complete Group

which unfortunatly is longer than 70 characters, however, to make it fit in 70 characters i could put:

3D Renders of Office Refurb & Interior Design Kent | Complete Group

Notice that refurbishment has been changed to refurb, would this be ok for SEO purposes?

We are about to change nameservers and upload a new website design design, completely rebuilt website to that new hosting, will this effect our seo efforts previously and have an effect on our SEO rankings?

Why are you redirecting .html to .php why dont you just permanently change the endings of the pages to .php?

Hi. I was speaking with my designer last night (we are setting up a new website) and we were discussing the design of our homepage, now the designer said he wanted the first page of the website to be a sort of landing page page were the visitor has to click and enter, im sure everyone has all come across these before. However, I am concerned as to the SEO implications of this?

Any help guys?

There all good ideas.

I could do that, but I still wouldn't know how to get enough information about the particular office interior design to write content for the blog and the image permissions.

the images they have must have been obtained from the company doing it, but the images aren't the real issue, how did they get the information about the interior design in order to write a blog about it?

Im currently building a blog on Wordpress, and I will be blogging about Office Interior Designs. When I look at my competition they have some great blog posts about office interior designs and I have no idea about how they get: a) The ideas to blog about, how do they find out about these office interior designs b) how they get the content for them, how do they know what to write about each one, do they need permission etc, c) if i am interested in doing a blog on the same office interior design as them, how can I get information )and permission from the company that done the office interior design) on the office interior design so i can blog about it and also how do i get the images and stuff. an example is http://www.officedesignblog.com/invensys-rail-office-concept/726/ I would like to cover this aswell, as i think my future readers would like to know about this. how did they get the images, and the information about the project so they could write a blog post about it? And how would I go about doing the same thing?

Thumbs up for suggesting a wp install to his current site. Without this, theres no point doing SEO because the blogs not run your site and you would not get any sweet nectar from it.