On Page Optimization, F on all keywords?
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On our website we have all F's even though we have the targeted keyword in the title, url, meta desc, h1, body and some of the img alt's. They still show zero uses of the keyword. Are we missing something here or is this some kind of bug or glitch? Any help or advice is appreciated, Thanks.
Keyword: 2015 Toyota Tundra Hilton Head
Website: http://www.stokesbrowntoyotahiltonhead.com/2015-Toyota-Tundra-Hilton-Head-Serving-Savannah/
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Looks like our host solved the problem. They mentioned they were blocking the rogerbot crawler. Anyone have an idea of how long we have to wait until the page grades and other info updates in our dashboard?
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All F's.
Looks like our site devs have fixed the issue. I just ran the page grader and we received an A. I guess we wait until Moz crawls our site again to see our updated info.
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Have you ever been able to see a non-all F report from Moz? If so, I would see what has changed since then. But yes, your developers should be able to give you the answers you are looking for.
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I would start with contacting the developers and ask them if they have any clue about it Daniel. Failing that, without having a good root around, it's hard to say at a glance what is going on. There certainly are a lot of more general site issues.
-Andy
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Any ideas of where we should start to narrow down this issue?
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We are also receiving these issues as well. Seems like its a hit or miss with the crawling.
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I suspect this is either a permissions problem in the site structure or an issue in .htaccess, neither which we can see.
Aside from some messy code, issues on the cosole log and iframes on the page, I can't see that these would cause the problem because the pages are being cralwed and indexed.
-Andy
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Even the robots.txt page is 403...
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I get a 403 for every page in the site. Is there something with your host that is blocking crawlers?
Edit-- OK , so it isn't something with your host as I tried to crawl another site on the same server, and that works without issue.
-Andy
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This is our robots.txt file, everything looks normal. Now that you say that, I do notice in our dashboard we have a high amount of crawl issues. At least 1 on each of our campaigns.
User-agent: * Disallow: /request-more-info/ Disallow: /test-drive-this-car/ Disallow: /confirm-availability/ Disallow: /request-vehicle-quote/ Disallow: /send-to-mobile/ Disallow: /email-a-friend/ Disallow: /gallery/ Disallow: /eprice/ Disallow: /print-auto/ Disallow: /autocheck/ Disallow: /print-coupons/ Disallow: /request-video-walkaround/ Disallow: /get-e-finance/ Disallow: /condition-report/ Crawl-delay: 2 Sitemap: http://www.stokesbrowntoyotahiltonhead.com/resrc/xmlsitemap/xml-sitemaps/ User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: 008 Disallow: / User-agent: DTS Agent Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: crawler4j Disallow: / User-agent: Goodzer Disallow: /
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We receive a lot of traffic queries from our business name, our physical location name along with the make of vehicles our dealership carries, and quite a bit from year/make/mode/location. (2015 Toyota Tundra Hilton Head)
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When I try that page in the on-page grader, I get "Sorry, but that URL is inaccessible. " If I put that URL into Screaming Frog, I see it is 403 (forbidden). I can see the page when I enter it into a browser, however.
It seems that something is blocking robot access to this page (although I do not see a robots exclusion)...
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This might be an aside to the main issue, but this is a search phrase. Do your customers or webusers, actually search for this phrase?
I haven't drilled into this any more, but would be very interested to know which bit of the keyword they would be searching for.
Phrases are really hard to get a good score on in my experience
Bruce
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Here you go! I have also attached a screen shot of the page grader which gives me an error no matter what URL I input.
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I don't see any reason it wouldn't be pulling the page in. Maybe check on the spelling of the keyword? If you have the right URL and the right keyword, it could be a bug, but hard to say at this point. We might be able to help more with a screenshot.
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