On Site Errors
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HI Folks
I'm monitoring a small Australian site bluetea.com.au . Currently I have a SEO specialist who does month onsite maintenance work for this site. However each month I continue to see errors in webmaster tools... as an example, currently webmaster tools suggest we have 21 short meta dic and 26 duplicate title tags.....
Examples given are
Short Meta Discp
/cleaning-products-and-our-health/toxic-cleaners/
/colour-consultant/fushia-door/
/portfolio/parisian-apartment-black-kitchen/parisian-apartment-black-kitchen/
Duplicate title tags
<a id="zip_0-anchor" class="zippedsection_title"></a>concrete-kitchen | Blue Tea Kitchen Designs
/kitchen-trends-and-material-innovation/concrete-kitchen-2/
/kitchen-trends-for-2013/concrete-kitchen/<a id="zip_1-anchor" class="zippedsection_title"></a>Potts Point Kitchen | Blue Tea Kitchen Designs
/portfolio/potts-point-kitchen/
/portfolio/potts-point-kitchen/pott-point-kitchen/My SEO tells me that he has solved all these issues but after one or two months they still remain in webmaster tools... can anybody help me understand why?Thank you
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Your SEO is right - even if they are updated, it can take a while before they disappear in Webmaster Tools. Google is not really best in class to update these warnings. I did a quick crawl of your site with Screaming Frog, and I couldn't find Duplicate Page Titles or Meta descriptions. 20 pages don't have a metadescription (/tag/ pages)
For a site of 89 HTML pages, the tool had to crawl a lot of resources though - you could consider to put a 'nofollow' tag on the reply links in your comments (the url's of type http://www.bluetea.com.au/sydney-kitchen-companies-a-buyers-guiAde/?replytocom=383 are not indexed, but the links to these pages are followed which ads no value, and is just wasting google bot's time)
Some of the examples you give are extremely light on content (http://www.bluetea.com.au/portfolio/potts-point-kitchen/, http://www.bluetea.com.au/cleaning-products-and-our-health/toxic-cleaners/ http://www.bluetea.com.au/colour-consultant/fushia-door/ , you could consider to add some text to these pages, and at least add a alt tag to the images you show.
While visually very attractive, 27 images are above 100k - check if you can compress them (think about your poor mobile visitors). Page speed seems to be quite good, noticed however your use a lot of javascript (23% of bytes transferred is javascript) - a bit strange as your site doesn't seem to be that complex.
Also check your external links, 4 of them lead to pages that do not exist anymore.(http://www.cosmit.it/tool/home.php?s=0,2,67,71,78, http://www.sampfordixl.com.au/neff/t44t97.html, http://www.kitchenwaresuperstore.com.au/, http://www.forbo-flooring.com.au/)
rgds,
Dirk
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The links appear to be pages that were automatically generated when an image was attached to a page or post in WordPress. This is fairly common with WordPress. Fortunately, these pages have the following meta tag, which tells the search engines that they should not be indexed or crawled.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"></meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
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Looking at that first example here's the meta description code:
So the Meta Description for that page is "nofollow7" plus Google is being told not to index that page. Is that supposed to be the case? If yes, you could remove the URL in GWT. If no, you'll want to get that cleaned up.
The in head css also isn't a best practice. Have you ran these through Google's Page Speed tool and other markup validators?
P.S. Meta Tags that Google Understands: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812
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