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We have recently launched a new responsive website for a client and have noticed 2 "Not Found" errors within Google Search Console for /mobile and /m

Both these URLs are not linked from anywhere within the site. However Google is reporting them as being linked from the homepage.

This is not the first site we have seen in which Google has reported this error, however the other site was not a mobile friendly site.

My thoughts are to 301 them back to the Homepage. Anybody else have any thoughts on this? or have recently received the same errors?

My suggestion would be to set up the canonical link on the index page and link it to http://www.davidclick.com/ with the forward slash at the end as when you click through it adds it anyway.

This should sort out the rest of the pages and pass the link juice to that one page.

more info here http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope this helps

Firstly have a think about whether you really want to cancel your subscription, you will lose everything (all stats and reports). And the wealth of knowledge that seomoz offers.

but if you still wish to cancel your trial is 30 days and not one month. The following is from seomoz help section

How do I cancel my Subscription or Free Trial?
You can cancel your free trial any time within your first 30 days and you won't be charged. So, if you sign up on December 1st, you can cancel any time before December 30th and won't get charged. If you're already a paying customer, you can also cancel anytime! You'll remain PRO through your paid period and the account won't be renewed at the end of that paying period. You can cancel your account by logging into the site and then going to the Billing & Subscription page.

So to play it safe I would cancel on the 1st.

Hope this helps

If you noindex the short pages, Google will (or at least should) ignore them in search.

This is a commonly employed tactic for large E-commerce sites to their indexed product pages to allow them to concentrate their efforts on the more mainstream product lines.

Everett Sizemore covers this technique in his E-commerce SEO pro-webinar
http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues

Hope that helps

The easiest solution when the products are the same but different sizes is to rel=canonical to one of the sizes from the duplicate pages of differing size options.

The best solution however is to create one page with all sizes on the page, this is a bit more difficult to do as requires some programming, design etc. but it is worth the effort from both an SEO and UX perspective

check out the folloowing article for info on rel=canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope that helps

Agree with Toms comments

If you want to tidy up this error, go through the site and make the links consistent (ie change http://domain.com/page to http://domain.com/page/ throughout and that should solve the problem.

This is particularly worth while if you share the reports with your customers as customers hate seeing errors.

Hope that helps

In my opinion likes/followers etc work in much the same way as click seo, the key is delivering quality not quantity. A friend of mine tried this using a similar site (5squid) and although he got the likes he generated no business from them and the new followers started disappearing after time. So in summary, yes they deliver, but I don't think they work, after all losing followers/likes is worse than having fewer genuine followers in the first place... Isn't it?

It may be worth sharing the web address in question and the type of errors SEOMoz is finding.

The Moz community is a thriving place of SEO experts who are very willing to offer advice to help fix your problems, it might be worth a shot as it could save you some dollar and also expand your own knowledge

Totally agree with Igor

Definitely use a subfolder if the intention is to gain backlinks

You might want to check out a whiteboard friday that Rand did a while ago that covers the merits of using subdomain and subfolders
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday 

Hi Daniel

It is possible to add labels to keywords within the SEOmoz PRO App, so you could add in the label "Top Keywords", but as far as I am aware there is no way to specifically highlight keywords or order the report by label.

You can order by top keywords, ranking improvements, declines etc but nothing that would give you the specific report you are after.

I would be a nice feature though, maybe worth suggesting it thru "request a feature"
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests

Hi Matthew

In Googles eyes these would be duplicate pages as 99% of the text on the page is almost identical.

Google takes a pretty tough line with this, so re-ordering a few words here and there wouldn't solve the issue, to solve the issue you really need to write unique content for each product.

You may want to consider including the product description in the area next to the picture as Google tends to put more significance on text which higher up the page.

Hope that helps.

Hi

It definitely makes sense to clean up your domain list, an extensive domain list is often time consuming to maintain and frequently the majority of the domains deliver little or no value.

I would personally take the following approach:

1. Is the domain worth having and does it represent any value to the business?
A: yes - keep it
B: no - go to question 2

2. Does the domain offer any benefit to the site in terms of link juice/domain auth/page auth etc (I would check this thru Open Site Explorer, Majestic and Ahrefs if you have access to them)
Yes - Keep it
No - got to question 3

3. Is the domain potentially harmful to the site?
.xxx domains are indexed by Google, enter the following into the Google search bar "site:*.xxx" and you will see plenty of sites. My concern would be .xxx site are targeted to porn industry, if your website has no relation to this industry Google could decide to penalise you for this in the future, so i would be very tempted to ditch/park all the .xxx domains unless there is a good reason for keeping them.

Ultimately any decision to ditch domains should be taken with caution, as once you loose a domain, you can't get it back cheaply or easily.

I hope that helps

Justin

It will almost definitely solve the issue.

If it is any use to you, the approach I would typically take is to concentrate on 10 products and make the content changes to those pages.

These can be top 10 sellers, top 10 products in terms of value, 10 random products etc, re-write the descriptions for each of these and make them live.

I would then run a test crawl to ensure the pages are no longer seen as duplicates, then wait for Google to pick up the changes and see what effect it has on rankings and indexing.

Assuming this experiment is successful start working thru the rest, I find that concentrating on 10-20 products at a time works better for me as its more actionable and easier to work on a smaller product subset.

I hope thats of some use to you

Hi John

It appears to me that you are seeing in open site explorer "1 - 80 inbound links from XXX domains" is that correct?

If this is the case you may need to change the filter in the 3rd Dropdown from "this page" to "pages on this subdomain". Then click filter.

Now when you look at the links it should say "1-50 of #### external links" and should roughly tie up with the competitive domain analysis links.

Let me know if you get a problem.

Justin

To add to Mike's answer

2: If the page is deleted and isn't coming back you may want to 301 it to its new equivalent of possible even return a 410 a status code to tell search engines the pages has been permanently removed

For more info on Status codes see the following article
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/http-status-codes

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