Brian,

I personally come from a slightly different stand point; relax. When changing themes these days I personally think that the Meta data is on the lower end of your concerns. Matt Cutts said even said in a video that if you have many pages that are missing H1, H2 etc. it isn't even worth your time to go back and add them.

RobertFisher of DrumBeat marketing is an avid poster on this forum often says that SEO is a lot more than just ranking. I don't want to speak for him but from what I have gathered he uses a lot of the meta data has a hook, more than just a ranking feature.

Combining the two pieces of information I stated, I try not to concern myself with H1,H2 as far as ranking, I view it like the text on a billboard or the marketing behind an advertisement. This is where the lines of SEO and Marketing begin to get blurred in my opinion. Use your meta data to sell your website and get the individual to click on the search result. Rankings will follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBTBEfd7z_Y <-- Matt Cutts video on meta Data

Good Morning!

We currently have two websites which are driving all of our traffic. Our end goal is to combine the two and fold them into each other. Can I redirect the duplicate content from one domain to our main domain even though the URL's are different. Ill give an example below. (The domains are not the real domains). The CEO does not want to remove the other website entirely yet, but is willing to begin some sort of consolidation process.

ABCaddiction.com is the main domain which covers everything from drug addiction to dual diagnosis treatment.

ABCdualdiagnosis.com is our secondary website which covers everything as well. Can I redirect the entire drug addiction half of the website to ABCaddiction.com? With the eventual goal of moving everything together.

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Good Morning!

I have been trying to clean up this website and  half the time I can't even edit our content without breaking the WYSIWYG Editor. Which leads me to the next question. How much, if at all, is this impacting our SEO. To my knowledge this isn't directly causing any broken pages for the viewer, but still, it certainly concerns me.

I found this post on Moz from last year:

http://moz.com/community/q/how-much-impact-does-bad-html-coding-really-have-on-seo

We have a slightly different set of code problems but still wanted to revisit this question and see if anything has changed.

I also can't imagine that all this broken/extra code is helping our page load properly.

Thanks everybody!

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GentleMozers,

If I may. I think this is when the lines of SEO/Social Media/Marketing become slightly blurred. All of you have touched on a very key point that people simply enjoy it! There are numerous studies, like one by Kissmetrics which show that Facebook posts get 30% more interaction than pure text posts.

I would say it not a stretch to assume the same applies to a website. I personally think there are plenty of other tactics to try and implement before I choose to get rid of the main imagery. Not only that, but with the Parallax/jQuery style of website you technically can have your H1 sit on top of your image, so you get the best of both worlds!

I honestly think that my visitors enjoy these images... but they don't determine the rankings of my pages in search.

EGOL I would be curios to know more about this. I mean yes, happiness unfortunately doesn't directly correlate to SERP's but Google must take into account visits. I know it isn't black and white that one image isn't going to make or break a website completely, but there are many times that I have been to a website and been severely distraught by the pixelated imagery and my trust in the company is diminished immediately, even if it's only a little. I guess I'm "cyber-shallow". That in turn, leads to a chain of self-destruction and questioning why I ever went to the website, severe crying, lot's of rocking back of forth. I'm being sarcastic of course, but I think you get my point. Happiness does correlate to rankings, even indirectly.

Getting people to your website is only half the battle, if they don't stay and do something to benefit your business/service/complete a goal that's potentially a lost opportunity. You only get one chance to make a first impression, make sure it's a good one!

Just my thoughts!

Sorry this took so long to get back to you.

To answer your question. As far as "server setting" etc, it really depends on what exactly needs to be changed.

Is it displaying a code? Is there a number associated with the error? Have you been able to identify which pages are having the problem?

I would look at this systematically. Now you may not have the time to do so, considering that this is work and not always play; I completely understand if your idea of a fun Friday night isn't sitting in your basement analyzing which pages are not working with the Moz site audit.

Regardless, let's find out where the errors are.

• Can you run other Moz tools on the pages that are causing the error?
• Does the side audit display any error for those pages?
• Are you copy and pasting the entire URL into the tool?

Another thing to keep in mind is that Moz did take a hit from a few DDoS attacks so I know a few of the tools have been iffy on and on. http://health.moz.com/ is a great spot to check and see if the tool you are looking for isn't working.

I think every SEO Tool (Majestic, Raven, SEM Rush, Search Metrics) really are giving you the same data just packaged & interpreted differently. They all have a specialty of course and that being said I have my preferences. Majestic will dig for more backlinks, SEM Rush will give the best Ad data, but realistically everybody is fishing from the same pond, granted it's a big pond. With an unlimited budget I would have 3 different programs for different things.

The amount of data that these programs are trying to interpret is awesomely massive. I don't know if any SEO tool is spot on, even Google Analytics for example. I think of them all, as a guide.

I started with Search Metrics which was incredible expensive and way to in-depth for my knowledge of SEO and my projects.

Later transitioned to Raven which was great because they pulled data from Majestic and Moz, and gave some great step by step suggestions. The problem was their spider couldn't run most of the websites I needed.

Lastly I ended up on Moz. A name I remember back when it was SEOMoz. Sure there are issues, but I found not only were the tools pretty on target, but the community was INCREDIBLY helpful. Which is one of the main reasons I have stayed. And I am a N3wb in comparison to most of the guys on here!

I'm sorry you're having a bad experience with the tool!

YES! I was thinking about turning this whole thing in to a blog post about what I did to fix it. I'm trying to come up with a catchy title.

"The webs we weave, when we practice to deceive"

That may be a little too on the nose. But I think you catch the drift!

Thanks again to both of you!

I have a similar issue. I would look into the server settings or contact your hosting provider and ask them.

For us, our host (private hosting) is obsessive about cyber security and has the port flood settings adjusted so tightly that our website isn't able to be properly crawled by Rogerbot.

Another problem that I have run into before is if there are aspects of your website that are not fitting for Rogerbot. I would take a look at http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/crawl-diagnostics/rogerbot and see if there is something about your website that Roger doesn't like.

For example, the webmaster previous to me had 45 images in our slider..... yes.... 45 images.... and not only that but the slider was on every page of our website.... which was 600 pages... So finding a bot to crawl that was not easy. Once I was brought on, I removed 40 images and BAM roger was in! We still have some server based issues, but we have determined that it is on our end and are actively looking for a new host.

Hope that helps!

Update

I have officially removed ALL TAGS. I also found out that our previous web guy had placed some syntax in the .htaccess which was altering the way the URL was displaying domains, so in the url, there was no "tag" pages. Which was news to me! Previous I had been using a quick redirect plugin, but with the amount of 301's I figured it was time to upgrade to .htaccess and plug them in there.

It has been a few weeks since the changes.

• Pages Crawled 194
• High Priority Issues: 9
• Medium Priority Issues: 324 (although I know what the cause of this was, and won't be in the next audit)

And for the first time in a little over a month that I have been working here we finally saw green in the amount of traffic that we are getting! We are up 4%

Thanks again for all your help!