I have shared this question with Dan from Screaming Frog for you 
-Andy
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RE: Screaming frog, Xenu, Moz giving wrong resultsposted in Moz Pro
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RE: Why does Google pick a low priority page on my site?posted in On-Page Optimization
Hi Issac,
In these circumstances, there are a few things to look at.
- Internal Links to your key pages
- External links to key pages
- Add some unique content to these pages. There is no content currently on them http://www.toaddiaries.co.uk/shop/custom-diaries/mid-year-diaries-14-15
- On your product pages, have a text link back to the key page that isn't the crumb-trail. You can also do this from other pages closer to the homepage
- Make sure there is no keyword cannibalisation going on that could cause Google to choose one page over another
- There is no rel=canonical on any of the pages. Add these so that they self canonicalise
- Check to see if your key pages are indexed by Google. This often goes unnoticed and can have you chasing your tail
See how you get on with those. There are other lesser possibilities, but these should give you some good starting points.
-Andy
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RE: Block Moz (or any other robot) from crawling pages with specific URLsposted in Moz Pro
Hi,
What you have there will work absolutely fine with a little tweak. And no need to leave spaces between lines.
Disallow: /numberOfStars=0
However, no need to add the wildcard at the end if there is nothing more after that.
The best way to test what works, is before you go and add it to live, use the Robots.txt test tool in Search Console (Webmaster Tools), add in the lines above and then check to make sure none of your other pages are blocked. They won't be, but it's a great way to test before going live.
I hope this helps
-Andy
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RE: Whether or not to remove a link from a website with high spam score on Open Site Explorerposted in Moz Pro
Hi David,
Spam scores like this are based on algorithms, so without seeing the links, it would be very difficult to advise correctly on this. There are other factors to take into account as well.
Would you like to PM me the information and I would be happy to take a look for you.
-Andy
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RE: Different title tags and meta descriptions for desktop and mobile?posted in On-Page Optimization
Hi Alex,
This really depends on how the mobile site is created, but I would suggest you have a read of this MOZ post that talks about optimising a site for mobile.
-Andy
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RE: Which Meta Description Tool is the best??posted in Other SEO Tools
Hi,
I quite like this one personally but I can't say for sure if it will ever get it wrong. Seems to be pretty decent though
https://totheweb.com/learning_center/tool-test-google-title-meta-description-lengths/However, I tend to keep meta descriptions purposefully shorter than I need as I like to try and get the point across as quickly as possible.
-Andy
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RE: Canonical tags in the body?posted in On-Page Optimization
Google says to place the canonical tag in the HTTP header, and that to me, would suggest that this is where they look for it.
Someone else might have a work-around, but I don't don't think it makes for a good strategy.
-Andy
Edit - As Dirk said