Pages crawled

[avecsys]

Hi

I've created a campaign for my own website and added 3 competitor sites.  Under the campaign it says that 53 pages have been crawled but my site has less than 10 pages.  Are the other pages from my competitor sites?

Thanks

James

[KeriMorgret]

Hi James,

Did you see the number of pages crawled reduced? Do you have any questions on this issue still?

[Keszi]

I believe so, it should...

[avecsys]

I'm going to make the change to my pages.  Do you think I will see the number of pages crawled reduce?

Thanks

James

[Keszi]

Hi James,

www and non-www are already 2 paths, www.example.com/ and www.example.com are another two. You can play with the idea

Also, you can focus more the link juice.

For ex. let's have Fritzy and Googgly, two visitors who would like to link you product page.

Fritzy will link to www.example.com/product/ -> with anchor text "product" (cool, eh'? We wish all of our links would look like this)

Then comes Googgly and links to the same product with the URL http://example.com/product/

Now you will have duplicate content linked separately and you wasted the link juice.

Just add a canonical to example.com/product/ which point the link juice to www.example.com/product/ -> you will transfer aprox 85% of link juice gained on example.com/product/ + it will not be duplicate content.

• another good part of canonicals is that you don't have two pages competing for the same keyword with same content.

I hope I didn't mass up here something

Another thing that you could do is just to 301 non-www to www or vice versa.

Gr., Istvan

[avecsys]

Hi Istvan

Thanks for the information and the link to the blog article which I have read.  I've got no problem adding the canonical link but I don't see why it should improve the situation becuase all my pages are linked using the same parameters.  From what I understand from the blog article is that this fixes an issue when the search engines keep coming back to the same page but thinks it is a different page becuase the URL it uses to reach the page is different.  Am I understanding this correctly?

Thanks

James

[Keszi]

Hi James,

So I have just took a quick look at the code. You don't use the canonicals at all.

Maybe you should check the following article by Rand Fishkin http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

It will help you eliminate dup. content from the site. After you implement the to the site you should have less pages indexed.

Feel free to ask if something was not clear enough.

Cheers,

Istvan

[avecsys]

Hi Istvan

My site is www.avecsys.com.

Thanks

James

[Keszi]

Hi James,

Are you sure you don't have any duplicate content issue?

For ex.usage of canonicals can save you from having your pages as duplicate content.

example.com and www.example.com are the same, but in the "eyes" of Search Engines, bots, spiders, etc they are different pages with duplicate content.

Maybe you should provide a link to your site, and I will check on it later.

I hope this helps,

Istvan