Hey John, on one of my campaigns I have gone from 27 crawl attempt errors to 145???  All are 803 and 804 errors.  What gives?

And mine is chill986@gmail.com

I am having the same problem on one of my campaigns - The site is on WP-Engine, and the campaign has been in place since November with SSL, and with no prior issues with an 804 error until this most recent crawl.   Help!?

Samantha (of the Moz team) suggested I have my client whitelist Rogerbot - so you are saying simply whitelist Rogerbot as a useragent?  Is there any other information I need to provide?

Thanks David, will do!

I have a similar question (+ one additional one), and if I need to open a new thread, just let me know.

I have a client with 2 websites - one is a trucking and rigging company that specializes in installation / moving / removal of safes (site #1), the other offers a product line of safes (site #2).  I originally designed / implemented site #1 and was able to get "safe installation New York", "safe moving New York", and "safe removal New York" in the top 3 search results in.  A little over a year ago, client was approached by another marketing company to create the site #2, who also provided commercial services that I don't.  It was a business decision, and we remained in good relations.  As a result Site #1 went to the new marketing company and they built Site #2.

Fast forward to about 3 months ago - Site #1 was infected with malware, client wasn't happy with new service, and asked me to take back the Site #1 ( and remove malware), and take Site #2, and re-work the SEO.  SEO had dramatically fallen off for Site #1, so I've been working the SEO once I was able to get the malware completely removed and reviewed by Google.

Site #1 had been redesigned by the other marketing company, essentially retaining the content that I created.  Site #2 has mostly new content, but under "Services", it references the same services that Site #1 provides, but the content is exactly the same, except that references to the company for Site #1 also link to Site #1.  So there is duplicate content for 5 pages on both sites.  As it happens, Site #2 that SELLS safes, is ranking #2 for "safe installation new york" for exactly the same content as Site #1 that provides the services.  Site #1 ranks >50 for the same keyphrase.

Why would this be?  Has Site #2 taken the lead on this keyphrase because of the malware situation and now Site #1 is being penalized for duplicate content?

One other major change on Site #1 is that the web technician used Wordpress's built in page nesting (page is set as child to parent page - nested 3 deep in some cases).  What are the consequences (if there are any) of having a page listed as (for example) oztruckingandrigging.com/services/safe/safe-installation vs. oztruckingandrigging.com/safe-installation?  The reason I ask this is that when I Moz page optimize for the first one for "safe installation" I get a lower grade then when I Moz page optimize for the second one.

It does.  I was sceptical when I was told that it had something to do with Moz Local.  I'll take a look at the video - thanks for the suggestion!

I went to a meetup last night that specifically talked about SEO, and although I wasn't given a good answer to this problem - and yes it continues - last week I had 30+ keywords improve by 48+ positions to #1 and this week I had 10+ drop to higher than 51,  I'm told that this is not unusual (not convinced of that either) especially with the new "localized" feature of Moz.com, and that ranking scans might be run from anywhere in the country causing the fluctuations.  This is the only site I'm seeing such dramatic swings so I'm sceptical.  I just discovered that I still have a .png as my header image (discovered last night, and have been working to improve server response speed.

I'm hoping that I can get a good streamlined configuration for a caching plugin that will work "generally" for all my sites.  I'm still open to suggestions and thanks for this one.

I can do that with my clients that are on shared service accounts for free, but not for my VPS clients - this one is shared, so good idea.  I think I probably have some images that can be resized as well.  I have the load speed on the home page down to 3 seconds, so getting there.

I have a client that has been trying a different plugin with huge success - compared directly to W3TC.  I just haven't been convinced yet will try it and see.

Thanks - I have been working to configure W3TC to improve page speed - only recently started working on it.  And yeah - I overoptimized in the beginning and have started rethinking the content based upon what I've been reading lately.  Will do - you think that page speed might be part of the problem?  W3TC is one of the most highly recommended performance plugins, but I don't think it is as good as some of the new plugins recently released.  Will search for a different one.

I appreciate the feedback - I'll see how things go next week.

The website is oztruckingandrigging.com.  I've attached a link to the keyphrases that show a big drop - but I have just as many that went up by a significant amount.  And it seems to be a weekly thing now.  Very weird.

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Good idea - I'll take a look. Yeah, seems like the last 3 months or so.  I don't send my client reports every week, but still - weird they are bouncing so dramatically from week to week.  If they dropped and then stayed there then I'd probably have more to go on.

Over the past couple of months I have seen a couple of my campaigns have key phrases that change from week to week from being in the top 3 to being >51.  I worked pretty hard on the sites to get them mostly #1 for their preferred key phrases, and haven't been working that hard lately, but not sure what to make of it.  It looks as though those keyphrases that dropped this week to >51 will probably be back in the top 3.  Makes it diffuclt when you are trying to prepare a report for your client.

Any suggestions are welcomed, and Happy New Year!