Hey Eddy,

I just ran it and didn't get the same error.

Have you refreshed the report?

If you get it again can you post an image of the report?

There are a lot of questions to be asked to give you the best answer possible.

What does the link profile look like?  Are any of the old pages indexed?  Is this an expired domain?  Did it have a penalty before?  What are the metrics behind the domain (ie MozTrust, Citation Flow, etc)

Just because it was a PR6 doesn't mean it still has PR6 value.  I've seen a lot of PR sites that get that way because of a 301 redirect.  Metrics behind the domain are way more important to me than the actual PR#.  I've sen PR1 sites provide better link juice than PR3 sites because of the relevancy of the site and the link profile of site.

That being said. I would throw the domain into Majestic SEO, SEMRush and do a site: search.

Here are some useful resources to help you going forward:

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalties-expired-domain-17883.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-EdhaMDXho

Not sure why the drop but are you using just one sitemap or do you have multiple ones?

Check the sizes of your pages and the crawl rate that Google is crawling your site.  If they have an issue with the time it takes them to crawl your sitemap, it will start to reduce the number of indexed pages it serves up.   You can check your crawl stats by navigating to WMT, crawl > crawl stats.  Check to see if you've notice any delays in the numbers.

Also, make sure that your robots.txt isn't blocking anything.

Have you checked your site with a site: search?

These are pretty basic stuff but let us know what you've looked into so we can help you more.  Thanks.

If you know nothing (or even a little) about SEO, I would start by reading SEOmoz's Beginers Guide to SEO.

If you are still thinking about hiring an SEO firm to do the work for you, I would then watch this video from Rand Fishkin, our CEO here, to know what kinds of things to ask your potential SEO.

Here is also 10 Questions to ask a Professional SEO and there is a link on the bottom of the post with the answers.

Generally, if your site isn't huge I would recommend doing it yourself and ask questions here on the forum if you don't know the exact way, or best practice for something specific.

If you don't have time to manage the SEO process, then I would definitely still read through the SEO Guide and make sure you understand the basics of SEO so you can have an intelligent conversation with whom ever you hire.  I've learned from experience that you have know something about the area or you'll have the potential of being burned by the person working for you.

Good luck!

If this is your first campaign I highly recommend looking through the info here:

http://www.seomoz.org/help/crawl-diagnostics

It's a good overview of what the report you'll get is all about.

I couldn't see the first picture but this section of your MozReport is simply notices.  Not warnings or issues.  They are letting you know what they see them.

Verbiage from an actual report:

"Notices are interesting facts about your pages we found while crawling."

This section also has facts about 301 redirects.  "Roger" is simply telling you that they are in place on your pages.  It does not tell you if they are correct but only that they exist.  It's up to you to make sure that your 301s, canonicals, etc are correct for your intended use of them.

Do you have the date of the change?  Try to see if you can see the when the change happened because we might be able to figure it out that way too.

WMT > sitemaps > webpages tab

Once you find the date you may be able to go through your notes and see if you've done anything around that date or if Google had any sort of update (PageRank just updated).

I have had sites that had pages unindexed and then a few crawls later it got reindexed.  I just looked at 20 sites in our WMT and all of our domains look good as far as percentage of submitted vs indexed.

Only other things I can think of is to check for duplicate content, canonical tags, noindex tags, pages with little or no value (thin content) and (I've done this before) keep your current sitemap structure but add an additional sitemap with all of your pages and posts to it.  Don't break it down, just add it all to one sitemap.  I've had that work before for a similar issue but that was back in 2010.  Multiple sitemaps for that site never seemed to work out.  Having it all on one did the trick.  The site was only about 4,000 pages at the time but I thought I would mention it.  I haven't been able to duplicate the error and no other site has had that problem but that did do the trick.

Definitely keep an eye on it over the next few crawls.  Please let us know what the results are and what you've tried so we can help troubleshoot.

Let me explain a little more here. When someone goes to your page they want a questions answered, what we call their "query".  If they are looking for kosher hotdogs then your page needs to be exclusively about kosher hotdogs. (not sausage, hamburgers, metz or brauts....kosher hotdogs) Sure, it can have links to mustard, ketchup or places to get hotdogs but the user intent for this query is to find something about kosher hotdogs.  Your job as a website is to answer that query.

With that being said, yes, I try to make each page we create exclusive for one keyword.  For instance, let's say you are a dentist office and you want to rank for the keyword phrase "Dental implants".  The entire page needs to be SEO'd for the phrase "dental implants".

Step by Step: (I don't work with any dentist, and never have, but this is what I would do)

Try really hard to have the URL have the keyword in it.  For example:  www.mylocaldentist.com/dental-implants

Let's go ahead and set up rel=canonical to make sure we don't create duplicate content on accident.

Use the keyword in your Title tag and

tag near the beginning of them (I generally keep these two texts the same depending on how your site is built.)  Title Tag <title>Dental Implants</title>

Dental Implants

(Don't think they need to be the same or different.  I personally believe they can be the same and rank well.  You'll get different opinions on this but from my experience they can be the same)

Now write great content....actually don't write content....talk to me.....Show me that you know all about dental implants and the benefits, pros and cons, ways your company can help me get them if I decide to get them and how to get more information.

Now that you have your "content" lets do a little SEO...

Your keyword will naturally be in the "content" but lets go to the all the incidents it is used and bold it by using dental implants

I like to link to an off-page authority (as well as internal pages that are helpful, ie. Contact Us, Locations, financing, etc) to help with my rankings.  For example, you could say that "we use the finest dental implants from 3m, Anew, etc" and have the link point to the ADA site like I did.

Add a photo of dental implants (that your company has taken) and add the title and alt tag as "Dental Implants"

Let's make sure that the our Meta description has the keyword in it (not actually an SEO thing but when someone searches it in Google you want them to see it in your Meta Description)

After you have done this then run your on-page report from SEOmoz to make sure that everything looks good.......

That was lengthy but I think that everything on a given page should be to answer a given query.  That simple!

Darin.

I am adding this part below because I just realized you asked a question about two separate keywords "cheap red paint" and "red paint"

I would look up the two keywords and use [red paint] and [cheap red paint] (that is exact match) and you'll find that one is much better than the other.  (I know this is just an example but one has 880 searches vs. <10) If for instance both did have pretty good results, I would use the more searched one as my keyword and link to it both ways but optimize for your main keyword first and rank it.  For example.  If you use www.paintstore.com/red-paint and I would do a link campaign to link to the page as "red paint" (mix it up though.  don't get hit by penguin!)   I wouldn't start worrying about "cheap red paint" until I started ranking for "red paint".  Once you start ranking for "red paint" you can start to add to that document a few instances of "cheap red paint" and link to the page that way.  Basically what I am saying is that you don't need two pages for these keywords because they are variants of one another.  Until you have good domain authority, stick to one keyword and focus in on it per page.

Hope this helps.  Sorry it was so long.  If you have any questions feel free to ask.

I read today that the rankings are updated when your campaign comes out but not on the rank tracker tool.  You'll be able to get your rankings weekly instead of on the spot.  Hope that helps.  Seomoz is very good about taking care of known issues.  Shouldn't be much longer for Rank Tracker to be up and running.

I totally agree with XNUMERIK.  I had I site I took over after a "black hat" SEO was working on it and we dropped from #8 in Google to #212 after all my corrects.  We're number #1 now for that same keyword within 3 months.

There is no "Data" to back up what I'm about to say, but it has worked nearly 100% of the time for me.

Here is what I think happens:

I corrected the technical stuff first (on-page) (site structure, internal linking and things like that)

The drop occurred when Google Crawled my site before I had a chance clean up all the backlinks, 301s coming into the site.

So, naturally I dropped because I basically blew my page authority.

Once I had a good fix on all the off-page corrections to match the on-page stuff, I fetched as Google (in Google's Webmaster Tools) and submitted all linked pages. (I only recommend doing this when you've had major changes like you've done)

It usually takes 4 to 5 crawls and I'm right back up where I was and usually higher then before. It doesn't take much longer with new links to the pages to rank it faster, especially if there is quality on-page SEO done.

Yes, this is the norm.  You will generally have a variety of update frequencies in your xml sitemap.  If you look at your sitemap you will usually see a value from 0.1 to 1.0.  Those request the frequency in which the page is updated.  If Googlebot will generally adhere to your guidelines and only crawl those pages when you tell them they are updated.  If all of your pages are set to the same frequency, which they shouldn't be, Google will generally only crawl a certain amount of data on your site on a given crawl.  So, a slow increase in indexed pages is the norm.

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You need to add your Google Profile under your user admin settings on the top right.  Then go under Contact and "Google Profile URL" add your URL there.

If you haven't done so already I would recommend setting up Google WMT.  In there you can set your "preferred domain".  This way all links that go to the non www version of your site will be considered to have the www.

I can tell you from experience that the SEOmoz tools are excellent for rankings.  I swear by them but remember these are guidelines and not specifically guided towards your site.  Just for the record, there has been some questions today about ranking drops so it may indicate a Google update.

Have you run report cards for your pages yet?  Its a great place to start and will give you some guidance on where the best places to make changes.

If you need help walking through them you can run one and post it and we'll all be glad to help you out with it.  If you can provide your domain name we can do some research for you and see what's up.

Not at all.  I manage 30 on one account alone with WMT and because I'm an  AdWords Professional I have hundreds on my AdWords account.

Only issue is when you don't own these sites.  I generally have the client set up their own WMT and Adwords first and then add us as an admin.

I love the profile pic BTW!

These are really good.  I'm going to dive into them tonight.

On top of moving the subdomains (there are 3) we've also built a new site on a new platform and moving all those pages from there too.   They had page IDs vs Search Engine Friendly urls.  They've been online since 2002 so there has been a TON of work that has gone into it and I just want to make sure I can make the move as smooth as possible.

Thanks again for your help and I'll keep you posted.

Sorry about that.  You can do this through CSS by doing this

(This is generic so you'll have to implement your information into it, obviously)

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The On-Page Optimization tool that Streamline Metrics mentioned is a great place to start.  You'll get a lot of valuable insight into each individual page.

Don't forget that if you are getting a "F" on a page for a particular keyword it can be for multiple reasons.  Here is what SEOmoz says about how the report cards are generated.

"On-Page reports are created by taking the keywords from your KW list that you are ranking in the top 50 for in combination with the page is ranking in the SERP. Then we analyze the KW usage on that page. So let's say www.seomoz.org/blog/PA is ranking for "roger is super cool". The report will create automatically for that KW and URL and give it a F because no where on www.seomoz.org/blog/PA does the keyword "roger is super cool" show up."

Learn more about the entire on-page reports from Help Hub here on SEOmoz

The first thing you will need to do is add the opposite www version of the site you have already verified to Google WMT.

For instance.  If you have already verified  example.co.uk you'll need to add a new site for www.example.co.uk

If the verification code is already on the site you should be good to go by clicking verify.  If however, it is not, you can add it with the instructions given on WMT.

The end result is that you will have two version of your site in WMT dashboard.  the www and the non www version of your site.  Let me know if you need a few screenshots or more info.

If Google sends you a message, I'd listen.

Generally, these messages comes when you don't have something set correctly in your parameters. Have you set canonicals for your items?

Here are some resources to go through.

From Google:  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76401?hl=en

A Good Product Forum Discussion: https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/CCORJBI-mEg

A Good Product Forum Discussion that has John Mueller (works for Google) on it: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/1aTAjsRbIOU

I agree with Chris.

You can definitely rank a page for multiple keywords through both on-page strategy and through co-citations.  If the keywords you are trying to rank for are naturally on the same topic then it really won't be an issue to rank for them.  For instance, if you are shooting for automotive parts and car parts.  If one keyword is automotive parts and the other is tires, I would generally recommend two separate sub-pages for these words.  You'll also have to remember that having both keywords in the URL title, H1, etc. will be hard if you have multiple keywords on the page.