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Thanks for the quick reply Martijn,

I will 301 these back to the homepage. Just strange that Google is reporting these when they do not exist anywhere on the site.

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?

To clarify

Its very difficult to obtain good links these days, generally they come as the result of creating good content, being a good brand and through a lot of hard work.

My suggestion would be to evaluate the sites you are dealing with, see what they are doing of interest to people, what they are doing which is different and try and exploit those areas. Promote that content through social channels, e-shots, good old fashioned word of mouth etc

Hopefully if the content is something that people find interesting, they will link to it, retweet and share it.

Admittedly, this is a simplistic overview but its the basis of what you should be doing.

If you are looking for further info, there is a ton of resource of Moz and other sites regarding content marketing, promoting content etc,

Hope that helps and good luck

Justin

If i hear the words Fiverr mentioned in a conversation regarding SEO, I run.

Don't do it....

Hi

It depends on your preferred domain going forward, in truth 25 linking route domains isn't enough to be concerned about (unless they are from very high authority sites), so I would chose the variant which works best for you and 301 to that version.

Going forward you should build new links which point the chosen variant (www or non-www).

Justin

The key thing here is whether the space is shown in the search results.

I think its unlikely that it would cause any SEO issues, if however the space shows in Google results there is a high chance it would affect your click thrus as extra spaces, weird characters etc in page titles tend to suggest that the site is less trustworthy (in my opinion).

So if space is visible in your page title and/or search results, get it sorted. If it is just tabs and line returns in the source code you don't need to worry about it too much.

Hope that helps.

I don't think the backlink profile to that page looks particularly natural and i think thats where your problem lies

OSE shows 19 backlines ahrefs shows 30, but looking through them, you have two infographitcs (with no social shares) a couple of links from .ac.uk (which are good links), directories and a number of very questionable looking links such as www.librerio.com/search/jobs/40

You also have some exact match anchor text

All of the above suggests to me that you have been hit by Panda/Penguin and the loss of links mentioned previously most likely suggests that you had questionable links that have been removed or the sites they were coming from have been shutdown (again a good indicator of poor backlinks)

To me, it looks like you are going to have to do some work on building some good links and adding a bit of content to your site to get your rankings back

Also you are on an exact match domain "graduate-jobs.com" which may be contributing

I'm sure its not what you want to hear, but I think thats where the problem most likely lies.

I hope that helps

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

What you are looking to do is reasonably common place.

Websites that contain a blogs, download sections etc are often hosted on separate webservers (and IP's), so what you are looking at doing should be fine.

You seem to have the major SEO consideration covered and that is to use subdirectories from the existing domain (www.oldsiteexample.com/marketing) that way your new part of the site will benefit from the authority/rank etc of the old site, also any authority generated by the new part of the site will be passed on in part to www.oldsiteexample.com further boosting its auth.

If however you use subdomains (marketing.oldsiteexample.com) you would pretty much be starting your seo efforts for this part of the site from scratch, furthermore very little (if any) authority generated by this part of the site would be passed back to www.oldsiteexample.com

I hope that helps

You could probably do something manually on this, although I have never tried it to be honest.

I tend to use the SEOMoz reports as they are easy, insightful and well formatted.

I would think the best way to achieve what you are after is to export the site rankings to csv and use Excel, set up conditional formatting to highlight a row where label is equal to "top keywords" or whatever label you use.

If you get any problems let me know and I will send you a quick example in Excel, the only downside of this is that you will have to run this report manually as there is no way of automating this info as far as i know.

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

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

Thats interesting, i've not noticed anything on any of my campaigns

Out of curiosity, does the list of duplicate URL's  give any clues as the what may be causing the duplicate pages error? Could Moz have updated their crawler to be case sensitive or something along those lines ?

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

Hi Gerd

Thanks for the reply and suggestions.

My biggest concern is not with the new site, I am more concerned with the impact this might have on the existing site.

My logic being that if we rel=canonical any duplicate content to the existing site we would minimize or even eliminate any impact.

Justin

Would re-skinning, duplicating an exising ecommerce website with a new domain name cause any ranking issues?

The plan would be that all product data, pricing info etc would be identical, the site would have a minor redesign to change colours, logos etc and all duplicate content would be rel=canonicaled to the original site.

In case you are wondering the reason for this is a customer with an existing site wants to try out a new brand without incorporating a massive development costs.

The majority of traffic would be driving through google shopping, a bit of PPC, social etc.

Is this site duplication likely to harm the original site or will setting up rel=canonical to point to the original site going to be sufficient enough to prevent this happening?

Is there anything else is should consider?

Many thanks for your help

Hi Virginia

I don't believe the URL's on the on-page report are embedded, at least they aren't when I run them.

I would imagine that your PDF viewer is recognising URLs and then making them clickable. My guess would be that your PDF viewer is causing the problem.

Acrobat is a reader that does recognise URLs and I have just tested on Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Reader on Mac and the URL's i tried clicked through correctly.

What are you using to view the PDF?

Justin

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

What is the server error you are getting with the .htaccess file?
You do indeed need to verify ownership of you site, it's real easy to do, it involves adding a small piece of code to your site. See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35179