Hey William, Thanks again. I've made a point to significantly increase the content on affiliate landing pages. We optimized title tags a few days ago so hopefully they're indexed very soon. Campaign turned up the following crawl diagnostics:
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Too Many on-page links. (800 errors, many pages with 130-140 links) We made many of the menu-links no-follow (specifically links to affiliate landing pages). I believe this will cut down the number of on-page links crawled by Google and should thus solve the problem to an extent?
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Duplicate Page Titles (600 instances) - We've fixed these now and created original / descriptive page titles for each page.
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Missing meta tag description (270 instances) - Added these.
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Duplicate Page Content (160 instances) - We've fixed this as best we can I believe.
- Those were the main issues. They seem so simple. I believe we've now fixed these all to a good degree. Perhaps a culmination
This was the report from a crawl on December 17th and many of the changes were made since then, so just waiting for the new crawl to see if we've truly improved on these errors.
With your knowledge and experience would you be able to comment on how the sheer volume of error / warning instances above could effect our likelihood of receiving a penalty? For example is 800 errors/warnings for having too many on-page links something of severe concern?
Thanks.
