Dismiss crawl diagnostics error

[MaratM]

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.

[MaratM]

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.

[RyanKent]

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.