Error help for newbie please
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Hi,
I signed up after seeing the videos on Udemy and YouTube (white board Friday) So I've started the free trial and am looking forward to getting my site ranking higher. I've crawled my site www.sussexchef.com and its come back with the following errors (please see below.
608 I'm sure this information is very important but I have no idea how to fix the 608, I found a robots.txt in my directory and deleted it as I think that maybe the problem? I crawled the site twice by accident so will have to wait till tomorrow to find out?
404 I found it quite hard to find the broken links at first but once I realized all the information I needed was in the table I think I got them all. did I miss a tutorial or am I just a little out of my depth here?
503 I have no idea how to fix these, I can click the links and it takes my to that page or file. so how can it be the server down? Or is this because they are links to PDF's? should i convert them to jpegs and give them meta data?
I'd be grateful for any help anyone has to offer as I'm keen to learn how to promote my site better.
Crawl Error
Moz encountered an error on one or more pages on your site608 Page not Decodable as Specified Content EncodingInvestigate the cause of this issue on the Help Hub.Discovered: Sep 2 - 8Crawl Diagnostics
Crawl Issue Found: 404 Errors
10% of site pages served 404 errors during the last crawlA high percentage of 404 pages can indicate a problem with the internal link structure.Crawl Diagnostics
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wedding-caterers.aspx4041215http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/dinner-party-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/christmas-party-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wedding-cakes.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/outdoor-catering-specialists.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/hen-party-cupcake-classes.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/funeral-caterers.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/drinks-service.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/private-party-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/corporate-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/caterers.aspx40401http://sussexchef.com/wedding-catering/N/AView Issue
404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/funeral-caterers-brighton.aspx
Crawl Issue Found: 500 Errors
More than 5% of site pages served 500 errors during the last crawlExcessive 500 errors impact search engine indexation. Double check that your website is serving pages properly to both users and crawlers.
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Wedding-Packages-2014.pdf141N/A50302N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Vegetarian-BBQ-Menu.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AllInclusiveMenuPrices1.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/Finger%20Buffet.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/Dessert.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SummerMenu.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/HotorColdBuffet.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/Canape%20Menu.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Susex-Chef-Xmas-Dinner-artwork-file.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/BBQ.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Fun-Finger-Buffets.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/HogRoast.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Private-Chef-Dinner-Packages.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/Salad%20Menu.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Childrens-Menu.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HotForkBuffetDelivererd.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/Afternoon%20Tea.pdf141N/A50301N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Christmas-Promo.pdf141N/A50301N/A
500 : Received 500 (Internal Server Error) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/?attachment_id=51110N/A50000N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Biography.pdf10N/A50300N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/?attachment_id=62810N/A50300N/A
503 : Received 503 (Service Unavailable) error response for page.
http://sussexchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-02-01-11.12.00.jpg
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Hi, No no crawl errors with webmaster tools just in the Moz, I guess that a good thing?
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Here is a good article for you to check out http://moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-crawl-errors-in-google-webmaster-tools
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Yes that would be the best thing to do. Do you have any crawl errors within your google webmaster account ? Once you have redirected the links you can notify google via the webmaster tools as well which is always good to know.
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Hi thank you for taking the time to reply, that's really kind of you. So I found the dead links on my page and deleted the hyperlinks and made new ones for the correct address.
But what I should have done is redirected the old link to the new address so as not to break any external links? is this right? And I can use "Simple 301's" to do this?
Thanks I'll look in to both of those now!
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I would look into 301 redirects, 404 errors are from broken links i.e. blog posts or pages may have been deleted but the link is still indexed by the search engines so you will need to redirect the links to existing content.
There are a number of way's in which to add 301 redirects you can add them into your .htaccess file or some large CMS systems have plugins, I know Wordpress has a plugin called Simple 301's.
I would recommend checking out this article about SEO redirection - http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection
I hope that helps.
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