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Thank you for this one, i need to do some work on this myself. Will read through it.

Can you point out the specific pages? (Which page it redirects from, and where to.)

The nofollows are automatically created by mediawiki.

I'll try to find a solution for removing them i guess. Thank you for your input.

Hi Adam.

Thank you for the good replies.

The url to the wiki: http://docs.host1.no/wiki

Url to main page: https://host1.no

"Complaints" from the moz.com-engine:

#1: (mediawiki-problem)

Crawl Issue Found: Use of 'nofollow' Tag

49% of site pages are tagged with the nofollow META attribute#2: (mediawiki-problem)

Crawl Issue Found: 404 Errors

8% of site pages served 404 errors during the last crawlExample of sites Moz.com complains about noindex/nofollow on:http://docs.host1.no/w/index.php?title=Cloud1&action=infohttp://docs.host1.no/w/index.php?title=Cloud1&action=historyhttp://docs.host1.no/w/index.php?title=Cloud1&action=editAnd so on.I assume google won't mind this as it's pages that really don't need to be indexed. But it would be nice to get moz' crawler to ignore these errors as they might mask other actual problems by the amount of errors i get. When i get 1000+ errors from this it's hard to find the real problems.

The links within the site (within mediawiki to be specific) is noindex + nofollow. This due to it being information-sites and such in mediawiki.

Not sure what to do with them, but it's fairly annoying that moz lists it as a problem with "1000 internal links having nofollow" if it's not really a problem at all.

We have a website which uses mediawiki for public documentation. The moz crawler keeps nagging us that 50% of our sites have the nofollow-metatag. (And noindex for that matter). This is information pages and such in mediawiki.

From a SEO perspective: Should we remove these tags? I assume they probably do not hurt?

If we shouldn't remove the tags: Is there any way to get moz to ignore these pages so we can get rid of this "noise" in the moz-panel?

I see you got a answer from someone that knows more than me. I recommend that you take Kevin's advice, and apologize for my bad advice.

Disclaimer: I am definitely not a SEO expert, but i cannot see any reason for why you should get penalized for having a few gallery pages on your site. That would just give people another reason for doing "bad" SEO by using shady methods to get their gallery-pages and similar pages with no/minimal text to rank better.

Yes, you can have unoptimized pages. They will naturally not get a very good pagerank, but as far as i know it does not hurt to have some pages with no text as long as you have enough content on the rest of your site.

I would recommend looking around on the internet to find good guides/artciles to read.

If you have a Kindle/other ebook-reader create PDF's of the guides/articles, and import them to your ebook-reader for easy reading when offline. I am not a expert on SEO, but after a couple of decades working with computers my opinion is that books are rarely worth it for topics that forces you too always be up-to-date. (SEO)

Haven't experienced this myself, but the natural response is to send a mail to the author of the article where you ask politely if the author could add a link to the article. Pretty much all you can do.

Same thing with my dashboard, in addition i get the following crawl-errors:

Moz was unable to crawl your site during the last campaign update!We encountered the following issue:902 Network Errors Prevented Crawler from Contacting ServerI suspect that these might be related? Does MOZ.com have any issues on their side? I am 100% sure that there has been no network issues during this period. And no blocking of Moz's ip's.

I can't see a problem with changing it. Seeing that you removed a lot of pages due to cleaning up the site i would think that the normal thing to do is not to show a 404-page, but either redirect to the proper page/category, or show something like the example you linked to.

Depends on how often your site is crawled by Google/Bing/Whatever. Normally it should be visible within the next crawl. (Minutes/Hours/A day or two.)

My pleasure.

And no, not really. Ofcourse, if you place the servers on a crappy connection in Australia you might experience some latency/slow loading from the EU/US, but as long as you keep it in EU/US you should be all good. Any good european or american provider should do nicely.

Feel free to ask if there is anything else.

I still have the same problem with the blank front page. Looks like the 902-errors have dissapeared though. Would also love a update from the staff.

I'm not a expert on the SEO-bit, but generally i wouldn't bother with it. You have existing domains that work well, you have site(s) that's known in your market-segment and a well-known brand. In my opinion it won't do you any good to use http://a.brand instead of http://brand.com . .com-domains and national TLDs are well known amongst the users of the internet, new things/weird domains tend to scare people.

But if you/your company can afford to get a gTLD for your brand it would probably be a nice thing to just have "lying around" just in case. But i wouldn't bother spending a lot of work on it.

Edit: Checked your company, seeing that it's a furniture-company i wouldn't bother with it at all. Your customer-base seems to be "all the people". "All the people" are usually happy as long as they can find your-company.com/.no and so on.

OT: Nice to see more norwegians in here. Hi!

The best answer i can give you is the following links (I assume that google is your main priority.):

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/6029673?hl=en&ref_topic=6001951

With the change of address tool you shouldn't experience any problems as far as i know. Unfortunately i did not have the time to localize similar tools (if they exist) from other search providers:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en&ref_topic=6029673

1: You never "need" to invest in a paid directory, just consider the price vs the returns. Personally i never pay for listings or links. I believe that the free services should be more than enough.

2: One listing on a high-ranking directory will ofcourse give you a small boost, but i'd assume that you would need a few listings to notice any permanent change in your ranking.

Looks fairly nice, clean design. The calendar-part could use some work though. What about a calendar for the current/coming year(s) where you enter all the dates/events and allow users to just use checkboxes to decide which dates to show on the calendar? Would be much easier to use, as it is now it takes way too much work for a visitor to check the dates for several holidays/events/whatnot.