High Number of Crawl Errors for Blog
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Hello All,
We have been having an issue with very high crawl errors on websites that contain blogs. Here is a screenshot of one of the sites we are dealing with: http://cl.ly/image/0i2Q2O100p2v .
Looking through the links that are turning up in the crawl errors, the majority of them (roughly 90%) are auto-generated by the blog's system. This includes category/tag links, archived links, etc. A few examples being:
http://www.mysite.com/2004/10/
http://www.mysite.com/2004/10/17/
As far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong!), search engines will not penalize you for things like this that appear on auto-generated pages. Also, even if search engines did penalize you, I do not believe we can make a unique meta tag for auto-generate pages. Regardless, our client is very concerned seeing these high number of errors in the reports, even though we have explained the situation to him.
Would anyone have any suggestions on how to either 1) tell Moz to ignore these types of errors or 2) adjust the website so that these errors now longer appear in the reports?
Thanks so much!
- Rebecca
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Hi Rebecca
What are the crawl errors exactly? From that report screenshot it looks like you have a variety of them, so the fixes will all be different.
Let me know, and in the meantime you might want to check out my article on Moz about setting up WordPress
-Dan
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It is true that you will most likely not be penalized for these pages, Google is pretty good at figuring out common canonicalization problems in my opinion and would most likely not penalize you for having duplicate content. I would encourage you to dig a little deeper and see what additional problems these pages could create though.
Consider that Google will waste valuable crawl bandwidth crawling these meaningless pages, rather than focusing on the important content you want them too. If Google is crawling them, you can most likely bet that PageRank is flowing through these pages as well, diluting the link equity of your site.
Are you using Wordpress? There are a lot of great plug ins that can help you manage these pages. You could control how Google crawls these pages with your robots.txt, by placing meta robots tags on the pages using a plug in, or by placing rel=canonical tags on the pages pointing back to the page that is the original source.
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