18 404 errors on pages that are actually fine.
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Hi,
I just used the compain tool to look for errors on my site and it appears that seomoz crawler finds 18 404 errors on pages that are fine in my good.
I do proceed with a URL rewritting on those pages, but navigation is fine.
Some of the pages are:
http://cassplumbingtampabay.com/about-us
http://cassplumbingtampabay.com/commercial-services
http://cassplumbingtampabay.com/drain-cleaning-repair
...
Does anybody know what's going on?
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Hi Alex,
you're welcome I'm very happy to help. I've been there too where client does not want to change something that you know is for the better. It is crazy they pay us and ignore our advice.
If it's with Go Daddy I can almost guarantee you it's a hosting issue. They easily have somebody doing something eating up the rest of the resources on the server at the time and mistakenly give 404's
for hosting non-WordPress sites I love fire host, data pipe, pair networks and for WordPress WP engine, web synthesis, Zippy kid, press labs and Pagely
if guy ever changes his mind which I understand will probably never happen. However if you're ever looking for a good hosting service I've had the best of luck with all of those.
Good talking to.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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Wow! I didn't expect so much help!
I did do the internetmarketingninjas tool and it found a bunch of error but it appeared it didn't really know how to crawl my links.
Thank you for the screaming frog tool that I did not know about and seems to work good. Almost everything seems to be fine with it.
I did have some major changes on the site in the past due to a webmaster change.
Regarding the hosting, it's with Godaddy, I am not too happy with it, but the site belongs to a customer and he loves it and refuses to change it. (I also have no control over the design or content...).
Anyway all is good.
I surely appriciate all you help. Thank you again.
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Hi Alex,
you have nothing to worry about I foolishly did a much more expansive search than what was needed to figure out this issue you are simply a victim of a glitch with Roger bot
I ran the correct tool on Internet marketing ninjas your 404's are 200's
I verified this using screaming frog as well as the correct Internet marketing ninjas tool link below. I would suggest using the link below to check any suspect links it gives you the very large amount of information.
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hi Alex,
I Believe you might be having some trouble with the bot actually been able to crawl the site properly.
Screaming frog showed that your site had no issues when it came to your about us link
as you can see it gives you a great deal of information on the website in addition to that it links to some other great tools. However I believe it's either an issue with the hosting or something with Roger bot got messed up because you're in the clear for this and I would have to manually put in the others to check them. As screaming frog only goes up to 500 URLs per a free account.
| URL |
http://cassplumbingtampabay.com/about-us
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| Status Code | 200 |
| Status | OK |
| Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| Size | 21551 |
| Title | About Us - Cass Plumbing - Tampa |
| Level | 1 |
| In Links | 28 |
| Out Links | 55 |I will continue to look at your site and evaluate it with other tools.
If I can give you a tip you might want to try using Raven tools they give you 30 days for free no credit card needed. It incorporates a lot of excellent SEO tools and would be a good way to check your site to make sure there's no serious issues in addition to what we have done.
Please understand I think SEOmoz is the best, but any tool can have a problem I would do a double check and try out Raven tools because of the conflicting information.
sincerely,
Thomas
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Hi Alex,
I was thinking the exact same thing it would be a glitch until I just did a 2nd test on some software that I know is accurate and I encourage you to type your URL into this as well as double check it on screaming frog spider SEO
It appears to me that there has been a big change in your website at some point?
from the information I've gathered using Internet marketing ninjas free tool they are a company recommended by SEOmoz and are highly regarded for their quality tools. it shows quite a few 404's
however one thing that just crossed my mind is you could be having server issues. Is your web host a quality host? you may have said structure issues as well. I don't mean to freak you out, and I'm sorry if I'm heading that direction. But let's look at all the information and try to figure this out.
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/
this is an another tool used by SEO's like distilled and I trust it quite a bit. Here is the link you can download it for windows, Mac and Linux is free to check up to 500 pages and is a very valuable tool in my opinion
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
So you know right now and it shows this as the stats at the top. However I can see all the links that it's giving 404's and other Errors to.
this result is from Internet marketing ninjas below.
<a>Internal Pages</a>
362<a>External Links</a>
29<a>Internal Redirects</a>
8<a>External Redirects</a>
6<a>Internal Errors</a>
274<a>External Errors</a>
1I hope this sheds some light on things please let me know if you have had any site work done recently?
Sincerely,
Thomas
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Thank you for your help, it does look fine too, was just wondering is somehow the url rewritting I did wasn't good for search engines.
Here is a screenshot.
Maybe that's just an seomoz minor glitch.
Thank you again.
Alex
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I could tell you much better if you would post a screenshot would that be possible?
I have gone to your 1st link, and you are correct there is no issue with that link.
Not even a /
if you're using WordPress do you have the force an / on?
I will look at your source code as well.
Hope I've been of help,
Tom
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