23,000 pages indexed, I think bad
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Thank you Thank you Moz People!!
I have a successful vacation rental company that has terrible seo but getting better. When I first ran Moz crawler and page grader, I had 35,000 errors and all f's.... tons of problem with duplicate page content and titles because not being consistent with page names... mainly capitalization and also rel canonical errors... with that said, I have now maybe 2 or 3 errors from time to time, but I fix every other day.
Problem Maybe
My site map shows in Google Webmaster
submitted 1155
1541 indexedBut google crawl shows 23,000 pages probably because of duplicate errors or possibly database driven url parameters...
- How bad is this and how do I get this to be accurate, I have seen google remove tool but I do not think this is right?
2) I have hired a full time content writer and I hope this works
- My site in google was just domain.com but I had put a 301 in to www.domain.com becauses www. had a page authority where the domain.com did not. But in webmasters I had domain.com just listed. So I changed that to www.domain.com (as preferred domain name) and ask for the first time to crawl. www.domain.com . Anybody see any problems with this?
THank you MOZ people, Nick
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Hi Nick,
I do not think you have that bad of a problem if google is showing 23,000 pages even though you have only submitted 1155 pages. How are you getting the 23,000 number? Try using the site operator search for "site:domain.com" in google (if you have not already) This will show you all of your pages that are indexed.
As long as you are working on fixing your errors and making sure you have no dupe content by unsing canonical tags, removing all the page that have thin content OR adding content to pages with little to no content you are going to be in good shape.
In regards to your comment about googles webmasters tools. I have a lot of sites in GWMT where I add both www and none www even though I have a 301 redirect with htaccess. It will not effect you if you add the none www one back (if you deleted it) as that one has data and the one you have just added will not have data in it for a while.
Best,
Cibble.
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