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I am not blocking anyone and my pages are all less than 2mb,  considerably.

My site is https://antiquebanknotes.com

Would the 902's affect my rankings?  For example, Moz is telling me that I rank 51+ for "1901 ten dollar bill" but it looks to me like I am 4th

I have two campaigns on Moz and they were doing fine until I made the decision to rewrite my URL to remove www

so, www.thing.com becomes thing.com   Moz sees this as a error it seems and I am now getting error code 902.

I tried to change my campaign setting but it won't let me change the URL because it's got historical information that doesn't pertain I guess.   What should I do?  Was it a mistake to remove the www?

Thanks for any advise,

Greg

HI Martijn,

I used Screaming Frog and it finds the H1.   I tried moving my content around on my page putting the H1 at the very top and the IIS tool found it.  Sadly I can't really do that in production but at least I know what IIS dislikes.

I suspect this is a bug in the IIS tool as it doesn't seem to bother Google.   Its tragedy that the IIS tool seems to be dying on the vine.

I have 4300 pages that the tool claims are missing the H1 value but they are there.

Here is an example: http://antiquebanknotes.com/rare-currency/first-national-bank-atlanta-illinois-2283.aspx/

Has anyone seen this before?

Thank you all for the responses... I found them all helpful.  I will look into creating my own sitemap with the IIS tool.

I can't help the 70k pages but the URLS are totally static.  I guess I can make a site map for all the aspx pages and then other one for all the lowest level .html pages.

Thanks everyone!

I am trying to generate a site map for my site nationalcurrencyvalues.com but all the tools I have tried don't get all my 70000 html pages...   I have found that the one at check-domains.com crawls all my pages but when it writes the xml file most of them are gone... seemingly randomly.

I have used this same site before and it worked without a problem.  Can anyone help me understand why this is or point me to a utility that will map all of the pages?

Kindly,

Greg

Sounds like I need to do some trial and error with the on page utility.  I will add the $ to the body and see where I get too.

Thank you!

I agree re two pages... I can't imagine the overhead that would require.  I grade an A for the spelled out version and an F for the $ version.

Hi Andy,

I am working from New York city but anywhere in the US should hopefully give the same results.  The target is the US.

I sent you the URL privately.

Kind regards,

Greg

I have a page that is tuned for this query:  1886 ten dollar bill and I am happy with my placement.

The same page performs poorly if someone types: 1886 $10 dollar bill

Is there anything I can do short of having another page tuned for the $ rather than 10?

Hi Dana,

First, thank you for your response!  I will change my image tags and add the canonical tag.  I seem to be getting 40 to 50 of these 404's a day and my traffic and rankings have fallen dramatically.   Scary stuff.

Kind regards,

Greg

For the past 3 or so months Webmaster tools has been reporting 404 errors on my pages... The odd thing is that I can't figure out what they are seeing.

Here is an example of a link they claim is a 404

antiquebanknotes/nationalcurrency/rare/1895-Ten-Dollar-Bill.aspx

This is strange because it's a malformed URL.   It says it's linked from this page:

http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/antiquebanknotes/rare/1882-twenty-dollar-bill.aspx

Which is a URL that doesn't exist.  The bolded portion of this URRL shouldn't be there.

Can anyone give me an idea what is happening here?

Kind regards,

Greg

Well, it's back working again and it filled in the missing days.   Can't complain about that.

On Feb 6th WMT stopped updating the stats for my two main sites.  I have seen other people complain about this but it seems like it's not known what causes it or if it's by design.

Does anyone here have any insight on this issue?

Thanks,

Greg Davis

AntiqueBanknotes

Hi James,

I am not sure why but it seems that my problem was cache related... I went to work and saw that my urls were rewriting just fine.   Sorry I didn't get back to this thread for so long.

Regards,

Greg

So I am trying to implement a lower case rule in my rewrite section and I am using the same snippet below that can be found all over the web.

The lower casing of my url works fine but it adds my domain name into the URL for reasons I can't explain.  so this  www.SomeSite.com/Upper.aspx become www.somesite.com/somesite/upper.aspx

I removed all other rewrite rules but this one and still it happens.  Has anyone seen this?

My server is IIS 7

<match url="[A-Z]" ignorecase="false"></match>

<action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}"></action>

So basically it seems that we don't have much determinism when it comes to ranking anymore.  Seems like we really lost something.  I guess I will muddle along an hope that I stumble into that special sauce that once brought me #1 rankings. 

I actually can't complain that the competitor doesn't have better PA and DA numbers... he does.  But I don't know why.  In every individual metric I have a better score but he has better rankings, Moz rank and Moz trust.  I don't understand why.

Here is the OSE query that shows what I am talking about.   http://bit.ly/13iev60

If someone with experience could scan these numbers and tell me if something jumps out I would really appreciate it.

For some reason my traffic to [Antique Banknotes] has declined drastically over the past month even while my OSE metrics have gone up.  A typical example is this 1892 five dollar bill.  I used to rank first for this search but now I am 3rd.

Worse,  a search for ten dollar bill used to have me near the top which brought a lot of traffic. Now I am way out in the weeds.   Can anyone help me understand what is causing me to drop so much?

I know there is a new competitor who outranks me with the url [Antique money]  he is likely the cause of my fall in the ratings.  I don't know why but OSE loves his site even though I seem to beat him in most areas OSE measures.   His Page authority for instance is 45 while mine is 37 but I have higher scores in every category.   I don't understand that.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I have a site with about 12k pages on a topic... each of these pages could use another several pages to go into deeper detail about the topic.

So, I am wondering, for SEO purposes would it be better to have something like 50,000 new pages for each sub topic or have one page that I would pass parameters to and the page would be built on the fly in code behind.

The drawback to the one page with parameters is that the URL would be static but the effort to implement would be minimal.  I am also not sure how google would index a single page with parameters.

The drawback to the 50k pages model is the dev effort and possibly committed some faux pas by unleashing so many links to my internal pages.  I might also have to mix aspx with html because my project can't be that large.

Anyone here ever have this sort of choice to make?  Is there a third way I am not considering?

Yeah, it would be nice to find someone who can do both but maybe I should settle on finding a good SEO practitioner that can let me know what could be better...

I have a web site that is going well but I think it could be better as far as usability and design. Also, I am sure an SEO professional would have some things to do to optimize.   It seems though, that all the SEO companies either want to have along term contract or they don't work with my technology.

Does anyone know of a company that would take my Visual Studio/C# project and tweak it for usability,  design and SEO features for an hourly or set price?

Hi David,

I did add ton of new web pages and because of those got those 404's.  I've since cleaned them all up.   i thought I had them cleaned up before the my traffic fell but there could be a lag there.  I am a little bummber my PR is 2...  pretty marginal improvement over 0.

I will keep an eye on my traffic and hopefully it was the bad links.

Thank you for the thoughful response!

In the last couple weeks my impressiona and clicks have dropped off to about half what it used to be. I am wondering if Google is punishing me for something...

I also added two new pages to my site in the first week of June and they still aren't indexed.  In the past it seemed like new pages would be indexed in a couple days.

Is there any way to tell if Google is unhappy with my site?  WMT shows 3 server errors, 3 Access denied,  and 122 not found errors.  Could those not found pages be killing me?

Thanks for any advise,

Greg

www.AntiqueBanknotes.com

ok... After some thought I have figured out a way to add these links and have it make sense.  At least it will be defensible.

Thanks for your help.

I have a situation where people search for terms like, say 1978 one dollar bill. Even though there never was a 1978 one dollar bill.   I want to make a page to capture these searches but since there wasn't such a thing as a one dollar bill I don't want it connected to the rest of my content which is reality based.   Does that make sense?

Anyway,  my question is,  can I publish pages that aren't linked to my menu structure but that will be searchable or, am I going to have to figure out a way to make these oddball pages accessible through my menu?

I've seen it said several places that Google treats a dash like two words so I can't see how NationalCurrency would be better than National-Currency for keyword "National Currency"

Wonder if there is a way to confirm this?

I meant to say 301...   My current site has a ton of them due to a naming convention change.

I haven't done a thing with this nationalcurrencyvalues regarding link building because all my link building efforts have concentrated on a third site.  I guess I will retrace my steps in that effort for the benefit of the nationalcurrencyvalues site.

I think I should probably move my site but it's not something I am going to rush into.  It tooks me seemingly forever to finally get noticed but the OSE tool.

I have been trying to rank well for the key word "National Currency" forever and can't seem to make it into the top ten.  I would really like to have the URL NationalCurrency but it's taken and can't be bought.

My url is nationalcurrencyvalues.  After reading the forums and various other SEO advice it occurred to me that National-Currency is as good or better than NationalCurrency for that keyword because it's seen as two words.  (right)

So,  I grabbed that domain name.   Now,  my question...  is there some way to make use of the National-Currency domain name without building an entirely new site?

I don't think I want transfer all of my content from nationalcurrencyvalues. Would there be any benefit to my nationalcurrencyvalues if I set up 303's on National-Currency?

Thanks Megan,

I figured it was something like that since the errors went away without any further action.  Thanks for putting the issue to rest for me. 

First,  I appreciate all the responses and I will certainly take something from each of them.  Vahe touched on something that I thought I should do and now it's confirmed.   My national currency page sits on top of several sub pages but I don't have links to the sub pages from within that page.  I figured it was enough to have them on the menu.  But in the back of my mind I wondered if there was some SEO type reason to use a bunch of internal links to make the site more navigable and to pass link juice around.

Thanks everyone who answered!

I am frustrated by a lack of progress for a major keyword I want to rank for.  I have made several pages, optimized with Onpage and even a whole site but I can't seem to get my ratings up.

I am hoping somone can take a look at my pages and efforts and offer me some advice...

Keyword is "National Currency"

One site is devoted to this keyword: NationalCurrencyValues

This site is ranked 30th and is down 9...

and this page on another site is devoted to the same keyword

ranked 26th is: http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/National-Currency.aspx

Hi Robert,

I added that rule but oddly it doesn't seem to work for me... The expression looks good so I don't know what to think... maybe one of my other rules is getting in the way.

Thanks for the link!

A few weeks ago my error count went up for Duplicate Page Content and Titles.  4 errors in all.  A week later the errors were gone...

But now they are back.  I made changes to the Webconfig over a month ago but nothing since.

SEOmoz is telling me the duplicate content is this

http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/   and http://www.antiquebanknotes.com

Thanks for any advise!

This is the relevant web.config.

<rewrite><rules><rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule1"><match url="(.*)"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.antiquebanknotes.com$" negate="true"></add></conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" www.antiquebanknotes.com="" {r:1"="">http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/{R:1}" />
       </action></match></rule>
        <rule name="Default Page" enabled="true" stopprocessing="true"><match url="^default.aspx$"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll"><add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="GET"></add></conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="/"></action></match></rule></rules></rewrite>

Ok,  I'm convinced.... I've added sitemaps to my site.

Thanks for the advice regarding standards and the robots.txt file.

I have a relatively simple and small site (60 pages).  All of it is crawlable and there is nothing I want non follow.

So, is there any real benefit to a sitemap since Google can get to all the site anyway?

Do they give the site more credence or something because it's there?

I guess as an aside,  are there any favorite sites that will generate a site map?

Thanks!

Hi Ryan,

First, thank you so much for the interesting feedback... I will learn plenty with this thread I am sure.

#1 Interesting tool validating the html... I am kind of surprised by the errors since the html is very basic.  I wonder if it's finding issues with my Masterpage.  I will dig in and see if I can clean those up.  I have cleaned up my issue with the Div in the Head... which was hurting every page on the site... very nice.

The last 20 errors seem to be a complaint with microsofts image map.  Or at least,  I need to set noHref somewhere on the image map but I dont' see the property.  I will work on that.

#2 I purposely used the singular because that is the exact keyword I want to hit.  I figured taking the slight hit for grammar was better to get the exact keyword.  I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on that trade off or if there really is a tradeoff there.

#3 Yeah, I will be adding some content but not much... the star of this page will be the notes and the breakdown of their anatomy

#4 The note is an image map and I have defined 12 clickable areas on the image where a tooltip will show on click or hover.  I thought describing the click to a site user was a little more intuitive than having them hover over.  My users will tend to be older.

#5 Fixed.

I just put up a page that uses an image map to illustrate a national currency note.

http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/NationalCurrency/National-Bank-Note-Information.aspx

My  goal with this page is get results for National Bank Note.  But I know image maps are wierd creatures and not good for linking.  My question is,  will Google index my tooltips and find this page useful and therefore worthy?

I think the content is useful for my users but I just don't know if the implementation will work well.  This screen will eventually have 5 or 6 notes on it and I don't want to do it

the concensus is negative...

Thanks for any advice.

Both interesting and informative replies... I guess my confusion comes from the fact that my antiquebanknotes.com  and NationalCurrencyValues.com domains were both started at the same time and the primary source for tons of inbound links is a signature line I use in a forum.  It just seems odd that nationalCurrencyValues shows 0 across the board but It makes sense given the OSE says no data available.

The site does show up for some relevent good searches though so it seems that the DA opinion a little harsh.

I guess I better find some links so that I can evaluate the site better.

Thanks to both replies!

I have a web site that shows with all zeroes in the Competitive Domain Analysis and subdomain Metrics screen. I don't think this is possible because I have a ton of links out there to this web site from a forum that I visit. Can someone help me understand how this might be. I am hoping it's not some dreaded www vs non www issue because I think I solved that issue for this site. The site is www.nationalcurrencyvalues.com

Ah,  just after asking I see that the key is the Stop Running weekly button...

Nevermind...

Hopefully I am missing something basic...

I can't see how to specifically add and delete On-Page reports.  It seems like running a report adds it but how to delete?

Also,  how does one change the URL for a report?  I have re-organized some pages and can't seem the get the on-page report to keep my URL change.

Here is what I tried.  From the On-Page report card for a keyword I changed the URL and ran the test.  Test runs ok but if I navigate back to the summary my old bad URL is still there.

I am not sure If I have the same problem... I previously had 46 pages crawled and added a couple in the last week.  So the last crawl should have said 48.  Oddly though,  it reads N/A.

I would think a little tooltip should explain what N/A means there.  Does anyone know?

I was wondering the same thing... my last update was 1/2 and this notice has been showing for a couple days

Next Crawl in Progress!        Started:        Jan. 13th, 2012

Seems like it's hung or failed...

I have been here for one month today and have been reworking many pages to improve my On-Page results for my site www.antiquebanknotes.com

I have seen some really nice improvement in my organic, search and non paid keywords.  (up 38%, 21% and 29% this week)

But last week all of a sudden my domain authority dropped from 10 to 9.   Not tragic but still odd since I have been getting some decent results from my optimazations.   My competitors have domain authority in the 20's so it's something I am sure I need to work on.

I have added links out to relevant sites and added lots of content but my domain authority falls?   Is this common when a site makes lots of changes?

They offer II7 but I didn't see any point to it...

Now it's dawning on me I may need to reconsider. 

It's II6 hosted on Godaddy.   I will see if I can get my IIS restarted.

Ok,  I have that in place...  if I am testing right, the default.aspx isn't working.   Maybe it's a hosting issue?

I thought this pattern:

^antiquebanknotes.com

was ok for me bcause I am looking to take AntiqueBanknotes.com and make it into www.AntiqueBankNotes etc

I think my hostname redirect is working ok.... it's the default.aspx redir that isn't working.  I have it in the same Rules section.

Look ok?

<rule name="Default Page" enabled="true" stopprocessing="true"><match url="^default.aspx$"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll"><add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="GET"></add></conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="/"></action></match></rule>

Sorry,  I forgot to add that I put that rule in before but it doesn't seem to be working for me.  Not sure why but sadly it's time for my day job so I will take a look tonight.