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You will find both reports here:

https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test

Hi David,

Thanks for you interest in helping me decipher this error.

In the April 28th report, you will find the error in lines 100, 108, 111 and 443; each line immediately follows a 302 http. Oddly, these 4 web pages are not under a "Moved Temporarily" status that I know of. I have doubled checked the pages with Screaming Frog, Image and Link Analyzer, and Xenu and cannot find a differentiating error on them.

If you review the April 18th report of the same pages, found in lines 99, 107, and 435 were not indicated in such a manner. (The fourth page did not exist at that time.

Oddly, several pages have been dropped from Google's index and I have yet to determine why or which ones.

Your insights are appreciated.

Hi,

I am not sure what this error message is: "Error.aspx?aspxerrorpath". It immediately follows pages that are given at 302 status in Moz's crawl report.

The same pages have never had this error before:

| http://www.homedestination.com/news/2013/Minneapolis-home-price-appreciation.html |

| http://www.homedestination.com/mortgage-worksheet.html |

| http://www.homedestination.com/foreclosure-eligibility.html |

Each page has a 100% score with WC3.  Could you give me more insight as to what Moz may suggest I do to give the page a 200 HTTP status as before?

Thanks.

Hi Erin,

I cannot add it. Moz doesn't list it and I cannot add it. Please tell me how. Or please populate "UA-48088508-1" in the drop down list so that I can.

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Since Universal Google Analytics is out of beta, I would like to update my traffic reporting in Moz Analytics to my new Universal Google Analytics tracking code. However, Moz does not offer it under "Traffic Settings" -> "Google Analytics"?  How do I add the correct UGA tracking number?

Thanks again for the update.

It is great to have the Crawl Test Tool; I use it quite often.

Both immediately before and after the odd Moz notice; all was well on the same pages from readings with the Crawl Test Tool.

Best on you on-going development. We appreciate your hard work.

Hi Sam,

Thanks for letting me know.,

Since I do not have them blocked in my Robots.txt file, what does this mean?

Is Moz saying they are?

Hi Dan,

Thank you for the clarification!

o you think this percentage has changed sine summer 2013?

"When done properly, we know from testing and statements from Google that a 301 redirect passes somewhere around 85% of its original link equity."

If my tests and recent tidbits of 2014 news, I am guessing the percentage of link juice lost has widened.

Do you have tool or WP plugin to recommend to help migrate the content in .html web pages best? I am familiar with Screaming Frog for URL's and metadata. How can I possibly streamline the rest of the time to migrate the website?

Thanks for all your high value insights.

The new Moz Analytics are terrific.

However, I don't know what this error means. Could anyone offer me further insights?

Thanks,

Scott,

I am wondering how your ABC + WP results came in. Would you have an update on you're experience?

Hi Dan,

Thanks again for your response.

I can see that I need to do a better job of stating the end result desires.

I need to assure my client in advance that there is reasonable cause to believe that if they spend thousands of dollars on the migration, it benefits their situation and increases SEO and thereby conversions.

There is no call to "Build out the new wordpress site exactly how you(they) want it." They are not seeking a WP "design", The request is to move to gain SEO functions, to NOT have the schema metadata stripped out as it is now in BC , to gain "juice" while not loosing back-link value (with unwanted and additional "link juice loss" from redirects). There are back links to many of those pages and they need to be read by the search engines in a manner that does NOT loose any link juice.

NOTE: In preparation for a better menu, I have some new 301 redirects added (without the move!) and immediately dropped over 70% page visits every day since. The last thing my client want is to loose more link juice.

The entire goal is to avoid any additional losses of link juice with redirects - because we already  have huge losses with redirects. Therefore, we are seeking any viable, sustainable route to not have redirects. The entire migration is for SEO gains.

There is no draw t o simple gain a WP site or design.

Or is this simple not possible?

Or are the benefits of Yoast so powerful that we will have SEO gains that outweigh the losses of thousands of 301 redirects?

Does that help clarify? I guess if someone simply wanted to be in WP and was willing to pay for it, and THEN find out how it hurts or helps that would be another matter.

Hi Peter,

It sounds encouraging to know that there is a way to get the perma-link structure of WP to match the old pages. Do have a plug-in to recommend? A service provider? I sought to hire CMSHelpLive. Fortunately, after no service, communications, warrantee or the promised test URL during development, I was able to retrieve my funds through my cc fraud protection plan.

I am wondering just how someone else has actually accomplished it.

Or, what percentage of "link juice" to you think I might loose with apx.1,400 redirects?

I appreciate any lead you can  give me toward a workable path forward.

Hi Dan,

Thank you for answering my query. I value learning from someone who has already successfully accomplished the task ahead of me.

Could you help me sort out what you are saying? It seems that you mean I should go with the 800 + page redirects. Then I would be adding over 400 blog post that do not need the .html extension. However, WP skips the "/real-estate-blog/" that come between the domain and the post name. (example: it is: http://www.homedestination.com/real-estate-blog/how-to-insulate-your-attic-for-a-warm-and-cozy-home  it becomes: http://www.homedestination.com/tips-on-how-to-insulate-your-attic-for-a-warm-and-cozy-home/

Now that would mean adding another 400+ 301 redirects. Or is there a way to eliminate the added "/" WP attaches at the end? And a way to custom add the real-estate-blog folder?

Four years ago I inherited the site. As a real estate site, all the content was duplicate from an agency affiliate site and thereby is still operating under 200+ 301 redirects that are still live and would cause loops.  The article you sent says I will have the following losses:

Issues caused by those 301 chains include;

• Slow PageSpeed – for users or web crawlers to pass through those 301s, for every one you have, that page takes longer to load or the crawler has to work harder.We all know that site speed is a small ranking factor. And speeding up your site can have numerous benefits. We also know that Google will drop your mobile ranking if your mobile site does not load quickly.
• Poor User Experience – what’s that statistic we hear all the time? Users will bounce if your page takes longer than 3 seconds to load? Improving UX through speeding up your site has been researched and talked about many times. It’s benefits are well documented.
• Lost Link Value? – I believe so. Many interpretations and questions surrounded this video by Matt Cutts ”What percentage of PR is lost through a 301 redirect?” – I even recently wrote my own interpretation of Matt’s video here on Google Plus. Bottom line? Chains of 301′s dilute PageRank. PageRank isn’t everything, but if you can preserve it … while at the same time improving SiteSpeed and UX … why NOT?
• Conversion Rates Can Suffer – check out this post on KissMetrics demonstrating how a slow site can even hurt your bottom line.

NOTE: In preparation for a better menu, I have some new 301 redirects added (without the move!) and immediately dropped over 70% page visits every day since.

Your help is directing to the best solution is much appreciated!

Hi Mike,

Is it common practice? I have never heard of that before. You are correct in that it does resolve the Moz error.

I will need to see how Google Analytics responds before making the change on all pages. Do you already have personal experience with if GA ranks the combined description as "ok" or an "error"?

NOTE: While Moz threw an error with my former structure, GA did not. If I now can eliminate the Moz error, will it throw a GA error?

What do you recommend for moving a static html website into WordPress that has over 800 pages:

What is the better option for long-term SEO?

1. Stay in the Adobe BC CMS (where all schema meta data keeps being stripped out)

2. Move to WordPress and have 800+ 301 redirects that loose link juice

3. Move to WordPress and add .html extension to all pages and face risks of being off the WP structure? ( What would happen? html extension fails to update at some point? Search engines would see it as link manipulation? WordPress would crash more often? Something else that I am not thinking of?

I am getting the duplicate description error from Moz. I use both the og:description and  .  I am not sure if that is going to get me penalized by the search engines or my pages somehow discounted if I have meta description and og:description on the same page.

What does Moz recommend?

NOTE: for years I have followed this in the best practices format put out from other sources.

Found at: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/52600/should-i-have-ogdescription-and-meta-description-together-on-every-page

Short Answer: Use both!

Long Answer:

The OG stands for Open Graph which is apart of the Open Graph protocol of which works on platforms such as Facebook.

The meta description element is for search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Since these are two separate tags that kinda do the same thing but they are designed for different types of platforms, one for Facebook and the other for Search Engines. The reasoning behind this is that the Open Graph protocal is more rich in what content can be feed to Facebook without scrapping the full page, think rich snippets. So images, description and more information is feed to Facebook via the Open Graph.

Using both is a good idea.

Hi Allen,

Good to know!  Thank you for such a quick reply.

Will I see the improvements correctly updated in my New Rankings and On-Page Reports Ready for Home Destinatio​n?

For my page www.homedestination.com/Minneapolis-homes-for-sale.html, Moz ranks the page as an "F" for the keyword "Minneapolis home buyers".

All data in the report card is from months ago. using the "Grade my On-Page Optimization" button fails to show any updates - even after months.

For example the title is actually "Minneapolis Homes For Sale| buying a Minneapolis home | Homebuyers" while Moz says it is ""Minneapolis Homes For Sale | Home Destination | Jenna Thuening"

Moz says the description tag is "Realtor Jenna Theuning helping real estate buyers find Minnetonka homes for sale, owner of Home Destination. CDPE also helps with foreclosure and short sales buying." and "Minneapolis homes for sale, and Minneapolis listing, and Minneapolis upscale real estate, and Minneapolis lakeside properties provided by Home Destination"" when it is actually "Minneapolis homes for sale, and Minneapolis listing, Minneapolis home buyers, and Minneapolis lakeside properties provided by Home Destination."

Additionally, my weekly ranking reports seems "stuck" and continues to show many "F" ranked keywords that have been updated for some time.

Amy advice on how to see improvements?

I find that many visitors do not use sidebar site navigation that much to reach the content they want. You may want to consider that web visitors searched for something first on Google and then probably start reading the page where the term appeared. If links for more information appear directly in the page content they are reading, they seem to like those links rather than prefer navigating the site’s content via the main menu bar or sidebar navigation. Viewers really are driven by the topic that interested them in the first place.

Use tracking analytics to determine just what your pattern may be.

Hi Scott,

It has taken nearly three months for many blog posts to re-index. I find Adobe Business Catalyst is working on ironing out the wrinkles in their blog updates and are certainly at a better end already. If you start now, you should miss all the URL redirects that have been required to update all blog posts with their structured improvements. I think they are getting closer to being a real competitor to a WordPress blog.

Also, I have had to follow Google Analytics very close to handle problems with Duplicate meta descriptions.

For example, many read like this:

http://www.homedestination.com/re​al-​est​ate​-bl​og/​twi​n-c​iti​es-​tra​dit​ion​al-​hom​e-s​ale​s-u​p/

http://www.homedestination.com/re​al-​est​ate​-bl​og/​twi​n-c​iti​es-​tra​dit​ion​al-​hom​e-s​ale​s-u​phttp://www.homedestination.com/re​al-​est​ate​-bl​og/​twi​n_c​iti​es_tra​dit​ion​al_hom​e_s​ale​s_u​pThat said. do you think it is better to use Adobe Business Catalyst for the main site and combine it with a WordPress blog?