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Hi everyone,

I have spent the last 3 weeks using SEO Moz to improve the SEO of my website.

I have reduced the amount of crawl errors from 6000 to 600, I have optimized my on-page to A grade for 4 of my main keywords and have been posting keyword optimized blogs posts 3 / 4 times weekly.

My reward for this? A drop down to page 4 of Google for my main keyword and a very annoyed boss!

Can anyone think where I may have gone wrong?

Thanks

Hi,

Just had my latest crawl test completed and unfortunately I am still getting thousands of Dup Page Title / Content errors.

It seems that adding /subfolder/my__forum/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=* to my disallowed list hasn't worked.

Can you think of anyting else I can try?

Thanks guys

Gareth

Fantastic!

Thanks for this Agents of Value.

Gareth

Hi guys,

My SEOmoz crawl diagnostics throw up thousands of Dup Page Content / Title errors which are mostly from the forum attached to my website.

In-particular it's the forum user's profiles that are causing the issue, below is a sample of the URLs that are being penalised:

http://www.mywebsite.com/subfolder/myforum/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=1308

I thought that by adding - http://www.mywebsite.com/subfolder/myforum/pop_profile.asp to my robots.txt file under 'Ignore' would cause the bots to overlook the thousands of profile pages but the latest SEOmoz crawl still picks them up.

My question is, how can I get the bots to ignore these profile pages (they don't contain any useful content) and how much will this be affecting my rankings (bearing in mind I have thousands of errors for dup content and dup page titles).

Thanks guys

Gareth

Great advice Matthew, I have actually gone through and setup dynamic meta tags as you suggested, I'm hoping that should get rid of the majority of duplicate titles.

Mafiasecurity - The software is Snitz Forums 2000.

Thanks for your answers guys!

Thanks for your reply EGOL.

I agree that hiding the whole forum wouldn't be the greatest idea but I just wonder how heavily my main site is being penalised due to the thousands of Duplicate Page Titles / Content in my forum?

Is there a way of hiding just the page titles of my forum pages or is it all or nothing?

Thanks again

Gareth

Hi everyone,

I've just signed up for Moz and I'm getting well and truly stuck in. I have just completed my first site crawl and have a frightening 5,363 errors and 25,319 warnings.

The main culprit is the forum on my site, it contains hundreds of pages dating from as far back as 2002. It is full of Duplicate Content, Duplicate page titles and a fair few 404 errors where old links are now outdated.

Can anyone advise what would be the best course of action? Should I hide the whole forum from Google's robots? My only concern with doing this is the loss of hundreds of pages of regularly updated content which I feel is boosting SEO.

Help!

Thanks guys