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Hi all

Our domian authority has increased from 39 to 42 last week. We have been improving our metadata and removing bad backlinks recently.

Is there any other reason or updates last week that would have resulted in this increase?

Thanks
Gavin

Thanks for the advice Pixel by Pixel. Sounds good to me!

We have been generating decent online press coverage with links to our site thanks to our PR agency and I have been asked to link to the online coverage from our website in a 'press coverage' section.

My question is would google consider links from our site to the online press coverage as reciprocal links?

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Gavin

Thanks Paddy

I guess my next question is; does a pay wall stop google from crawling a site? Does anyone know?

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Gavin

Hi bjs2010

If it was just the 904 error alone I wouldn't be too interested. However it came at the same time as a rankings drop. This also was the second week in a row that I had received the Crawl error 904.

Would be good to know if others got the crawl error notification though? Is there any way to know when SEO.Moz do their crawl as it could be when our server is running some back ups.

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Gavin

Hi all

Our PR agency has obtained a few inbound links from the UK's Times website. This is a great website with a very high DA, however they have a pay wall.

My question is does the paywall counteract the efficacy of the links into our site?

It would be good to know because if they aren't having the desired effect on rankings then I'll ask our PR agency to focus their efforts on other national newsapers.

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Gavin

If only! We host the website internally and the IT dept who look after the server say there are no issues with the server or network configuration.

The 904 error is on both our sites which are both located on the same server.

The best solution would be to outsource the hosting.

Cheers
Gavin

Thanks Martijn

The drop in rankings is quite significant and comes at the same time as the crawl errors in my reports.

I have 2 websites on the same server and both weekly reports show '904 Response from Server Timed out Without Completing Page Request' and both sites have shown a drop in rankings.

Thanks for your response.

Gavin

Hi all,

I have experienced a drop of 11 places for our main keyword since our last Moz rankings report which means page 2 to page 3.

I have also received an error 904 in my weekly crawl report two weeks in a row and think this may be the reason for the drop. Could this result in a drop of 11 places?

Last week I also tweeked the H1 tags on my main landing pages, nothing major just a reordering of the words. Could this result in such a major drop?

Final question is does anyone know of any major algorithm update last week that could have affected rankings so drastically?

Thanks all
Gavin

Thanks David

I havent used the open site explorer. I will give use it now though as I suspect we have many spammy links on websites we have had no contact with. Thanks for the advice.

Gavin