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How do can the crawler not access my robots.txt file but have 0 crawler issues?
Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. It looks like your site's robots.txt file is returning some errors to our tools. When I try to visit the robots.txt file from the root domain, which is where our crawler starts, I get a warning that the DNS address can't be found: https://www.screencast.com/t/ezfsiyVso4B9 That same file is returning a 503 error to our crawler: https://www.screencast.com/t/ROlNo8AQz That robots.txt file doesn't redirect anywhere, so you may want to consider putting in a redirect there to your robots.txt file at http://www.dateideas.net/robots.txt. The reason you're seeing 0 issues reported is that we weren't able to reach your robots.txt file, so we stopped crawling and didn't have any issues to report. I would speak to your web developer or whoever manages your site for you about making sure that your robots.txt file is fully accessible to our crawlers and can be reached in a browser. I hope this helps! If you've still got questions, feel free to shoot us a note at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort everything out with you!
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How difficult is it to rank an exact match domain nowadays in 2017?
Will, Write amazing content!!! So start with what your competitors are doing (market research) see what type of content ranks locally. Then produce a content campaign that exceeds usability, engagement and information that your competitors are producing. I don't think it is as necessary to do exact match domains these days. If you want to dominate the local space you have to do the technical local objectives, such as listing and google my business verification, Facebook page and Moz Local. Thanks, Don
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