Dismiss crawl diagnostics error
-
Hello everyone,
Is there a way to dismiss some errors in the Crawl Diagnostics tool so they don't appear again? It happens so that some of the errors are never going to be fixed because of their nature. For example, 'Title too long' errors that point to some of the threads on my forum - it doesn't make sense to change the title of a thread posted by user just for the sake of the error disappearing from the 'Crawl Diagnostics' tool.
Otherwise the CD interface gets a little bit cluttered with errors which I will never fix anyway.
I wonder how others deal with this problem.
Thanks.
-
Ryan, I completely agree. A list, whatever it may be, is of little value, unless you can tick/check items on that list as completed.
However, overall the Crawl Diagnostics tool is very helpful.
-
I asked the help desk this exact question. In short, the answer was No.
The official explanation was the tool is designed to err on the side of offering too-much information, rather then too little.
My reply....that's not helpful. A report is useful when it provides data that is either informative or actionable. The very first time I looked at a site crawl report and noticed the "title too long" errors, I investigated each one. I resolved many issues, but many were acknowledged and no action is going to be taken.
The site involved has a forum section. The forum software automatically appends the site's title to all titles. It's not a bad thing at all. Also, the thread title are controlled by users, and sometimes they choose lengthy titles. I could adjust scripts to cut off the titles and cut-off the title @70 characters, but why? To satisfy a specific tool which is designed to assist me? That's an approach I decided against long ago.
I whole-heartedly agree. we should be able to say "hey Roger, thanks for letting me know. The first time was informative, but now you are being a pain in the ass." I still wish to be informed about NEW title-too long errors, but I wish to be able to disable the warning about these "errors" which have been acknowledged.
Until the moz team upgrades the tool, or someone creates a better crawl tool, we are stuck with this issue. I would be interested to hear if anyone has found a better tool elsewhere.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Why is my crawl STILL in progress?
I'm a bit new here, but we've had a few crawls done already. They are always finished by Wednesday night. Our website is not large (by any means), but the crawl still says it's in progress now 3 days later. What's the deal here?!?
Moz Pro | | Kibin0 -
Duplicate content error?
I am getting a duplicate content error for the following pages: http://www.bluelinkerp.com/products/accounting/index.asp http://www.bluelinkerp.com/products/accounting/ But, of course, the 2nd link is just an automatic redirect to the index file, is it not? Why is it thinking it is a different URL? See image. NJfxA.png
Moz Pro | | BlueLinkERP0 -
Weird client errors . . .
SeoMoz is reporting a number of weird client errors. The 404 links all look like the following: http://www.bluelinkerp.com/http%3A/www.bluelinkerp.com/corporate/cases/Nella.asp What might be causing these weird links to be picked up? I couldn't find any way within the SEOmoz interface to track down the source of these links . . .
Moz Pro | | BlueLinkERP0 -
90% of our sites that are designed are in wordpress and the report brings up "duplicate" content errors. I presume this is down to a conical error?
We are looking at getting the Agency version of SEOMoz and are based in the UK Could you please tell me what would be the best way to correct this issue as this appears to be a problem with all our clients websites. an example would be www.fsgenergy.co.uk Would you also be able to suggest the best SEO plugin to use with SEOMOz ? Many thanks Paul
Moz Pro | | KloodLtd1 -
What does this error mean when starting a new campaign
hi just about to start a new campaign to i can monitor my website and i get this message up but not sure what this means. Roger has detected a problem: We have detected that the domain www.headlineplus.com and the domain headlineplus.com both respond to web requests and do not redirect. Having two "twin" domains that both resolve forces them to battle for SERP positions, making your SEO efforts less effective. We suggest redirecting one, then entering the other here. can anyone please let me know why this message comes up please
Moz Pro | | ClaireH-1848860 -
Crawl Report Technical Issue
I'm having a problem with our campaign especially the crawl report. Because the last update is Nov 4 and isn't supposed to be updated weekly? I already submit a helpdesk support ticket and even send a seperate e-mail regarding this issue but until now the report is still not updated. Anybody here can help me raise this issue/ Thanks.
Moz Pro | | shebinhassan0 -
Exporting ranking stats; errors
previously, when I went to export the weekly rank stats, the csv opened into excel and everything was fine. This week, one campaign data will not export other than purely in comma deliniated and will not translate to colums in ecel. A second campaign does export directly to excel but the data showing (on 27th June) is for the 22 february (report created march 1). so all my spread sheets for position analysis are up the creek and I cant even get last weeks positional report on my key domain. any thoughts??
Moz Pro | | Citybase0