SEOmoz Dashboard Report: Crawl Diagnostic Summary
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Hi there,
I'm noticing that the total errors for our website has been going up and down drastically almost every other week. 4 weeks ago there were over 10,000 errors. 2 weeks ago there were barely 1,000 errors. Today I'm noticing it's back to over 12,000 errors. It says the majority of the errors are from duplicate page content & page title. We haven't made any changes to the titles or the content.
Some insight and explanation for this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gemma
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If it's isolated to just SEOmoz, I would recommend using the SEOmoz help system (link in upper right) and submitting a ticket. Provide some detail so they know what to look into. Because it doesn't come across as being anything other than a bug or who knows what. It shouldn't fluctuate, as far as I can figure.
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Thanks for your reply Alan.
I've cross-checked with GWT and it looks like it might be a false alarm. The errors look steady on GWT.
So what could be the reason(s) that SEOmoz's error stats seem so volatile? What could be causing the issue?
I'd love your insight on it.
Thanks,
Gemma
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Gemma,
There could be serveral issues causing this. It's why I always cross-reference error counts with what Google Webmaster Tools reports. If both GWT and the Moz reports line up within a ballpark range, I'd definitely suggest looking into it, and if they don't and GWT reports a much lower volume consistently over time, you will have saved a lot of time, grief and energy. So start with that.
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