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Thank you for this one, i need to do some work on this myself. Will read through it.

Can you point out the specific pages? (Which page it redirects from, and where to.)

The nofollows are automatically created by mediawiki.

I'll try to find a solution for removing them i guess. Thank you for your input.

Hi Adam.

Thank you for the good replies.

The url to the wiki: http://docs.host1.no/wiki

Url to main page: https://host1.no

"Complaints" from the moz.com-engine:

#1: (mediawiki-problem)

Crawl Issue Found: Use of 'nofollow' Tag

49% of site pages are tagged with the nofollow META attribute#2: (mediawiki-problem)

Crawl Issue Found: 404 Errors

8% of site pages served 404 errors during the last crawlExample of sites Moz.com complains about noindex/nofollow on:http://docs.host1.no/w/index.php?title=Cloud1&action=infohttp://docs.host1.no/w/index.php?title=Cloud1&action=historyhttp://docs.host1.no/w/index.php?title=Cloud1&action=editAnd so on.I assume google won't mind this as it's pages that really don't need to be indexed. But it would be nice to get moz' crawler to ignore these errors as they might mask other actual problems by the amount of errors i get. When i get 1000+ errors from this it's hard to find the real problems.

The links within the site (within mediawiki to be specific) is noindex + nofollow. This due to it being information-sites and such in mediawiki.

Not sure what to do with them, but it's fairly annoying that moz lists it as a problem with "1000 internal links having nofollow" if it's not really a problem at all.

We have a website which uses mediawiki for public documentation. The moz crawler keeps nagging us that 50% of our sites have the nofollow-metatag. (And noindex for that matter). This is information pages and such in mediawiki.

From a SEO perspective: Should we remove these tags? I assume they probably do not hurt?

If we shouldn't remove the tags: Is there any way to get moz to ignore these pages so we can get rid of this "noise" in the moz-panel?

I see you got a answer from someone that knows more than me. I recommend that you take Kevin's advice, and apologize for my bad advice.

Disclaimer: I am definitely not a SEO expert, but i cannot see any reason for why you should get penalized for having a few gallery pages on your site. That would just give people another reason for doing "bad" SEO by using shady methods to get their gallery-pages and similar pages with no/minimal text to rank better.

Yes, you can have unoptimized pages. They will naturally not get a very good pagerank, but as far as i know it does not hurt to have some pages with no text as long as you have enough content on the rest of your site.

I would recommend looking around on the internet to find good guides/artciles to read.

If you have a Kindle/other ebook-reader create PDF's of the guides/articles, and import them to your ebook-reader for easy reading when offline. I am not a expert on SEO, but after a couple of decades working with computers my opinion is that books are rarely worth it for topics that forces you too always be up-to-date. (SEO)

I can't see a problem with changing it. Seeing that you removed a lot of pages due to cleaning up the site i would think that the normal thing to do is not to show a 404-page, but either redirect to the proper page/category, or show something like the example you linked to.

The best answer i can give you is the following links (I assume that google is your main priority.):

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/6029673?hl=en&ref_topic=6001951

With the change of address tool you shouldn't experience any problems as far as i know. Unfortunately i did not have the time to localize similar tools (if they exist) from other search providers:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en&ref_topic=6029673

Depends on how often your site is crawled by Google/Bing/Whatever. Normally it should be visible within the next crawl. (Minutes/Hours/A day or two.)

As long as you have a 301-redirect that forces you over to https google should automatically discover this. However you could probably use the "Change site address"-feature.

See https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

I still have the same problem with the blank front page. Looks like the 902-errors have dissapeared though. Would also love a update from the staff.

The reason for this is most likely the use of a "out-link" with 301 redirect. Not 100% sure, but i would assume this is the reason for it not appearing in backlinks.

Looks fairly nice, clean design. The calendar-part could use some work though. What about a calendar for the current/coming year(s) where you enter all the dates/events and allow users to just use checkboxes to decide which dates to show on the calendar? Would be much easier to use, as it is now it takes way too much work for a visitor to check the dates for several holidays/events/whatnot.

Same thing with my dashboard, in addition i get the following crawl-errors:

Moz was unable to crawl your site during the last campaign update!We encountered the following issue:902 Network Errors Prevented Crawler from Contacting ServerI suspect that these might be related? Does MOZ.com have any issues on their side? I am 100% sure that there has been no network issues during this period. And no blocking of Moz's ip's.

Based on my experience it's usually some incoming links/links that you have missed that causes this.

A 301-redirect to a working page should fix this permanently.

http://www.ovh.com/fr/index.xml

OVH has a fairly decent reputation, i don't have any personal experience, but they should be fairly decent.

http://www.ovh.ie/aboutus/ovh_infra.xml

Do you have a update on this? Did it work?

1: the "." in front of "*localhost" might break the filter i guess. The same goes for the "." after "4444".

2: Have you tried localhost*  or localhost ?

You can block them as of 16th of October (In google atleast), i see you might have wanted the same for Bing search?): http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.no/2012/10/a-new-tool-to-disavow-links.html

Well, based on the following post it seems like that is correct:

Quote:

When you look at Google's cache of a page (for instance, by using the cache: operator or clicking the Cached link under a URL in the search results), you can see the date that Googlebot retrieved that page. Previously, the date we listed for the page's cache was the date that we last successfully fetched the content of the page. This meant that even if we visited a page very recently, the cache date might be quite a bit older if the page hadn't changed since the previous visit. This made it difficult for webmasters to use the cache date we display to determine Googlebot's most recent visit. Consider the following example:

1. Googlebot crawls a page on April 12, 2006.
2. Our cached version of that page notes that "This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.example.com/ as retrieved on April 12, 2006 20:02:06 GMT."
3. Periodically, Googlebot checks to see if that page has changed, and each time, receives a Not-Modified response. For instance, on August 27, 2006, Googlebot checks the page, receives a Not-Modified response, and therefore, doesn't download the contents of the page.
4. On August 28, 2006, our cached version of the page still shows the April 12, 2006 date -- the date we last downloaded the page's contents, even though Googlebot last visited the day before.

You can find more information about this here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.no/2006/09/better-details-about-when-googlebot.html

Extremely easy.

I would just check http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-sharing/mailing-a-distribution-lists for a list of extensions that may help you do the job.

Based on personal experience: Try to submit, then just move on.  I've had a submission waiting for a couple of years as there seem to be no active editors left in that category. Doesn't help when they won't notify you if you are declined/approved either.

1: Browse to http://www.slashdot.org

2: Press "Join"

3: Submit a link to a GOOD (This is very important to actually be able to get something out of this) article/post. Hope for the best.

It would definately be a good idea to do a 301-redirect from the low-traffic site. You would want to keep all incoming links while redirecting your customers to the "main" site without them noticing any difference. If you have the same name on the subsites/products i would recommend that you do a 301-redirect from avengers-example.com/subsite1 to spiderman-example/subsite1.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72746#1

I quote:

Googlebot can index almost any text a user can see as they interact with any Flash SWF file on your site, and can use that text to generate a snippet or match query terms in Google searches. Additionally, Googlebot can also discover URLs in SWF files (for example, links to other pages on your site) and follow those links.

We'll crawl and index this content in the same way that we crawl and index other content on your site—you don't need to take any special action. However, we don't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all the content, Flash or otherwise.

Google indexed around 20k useless URL's due to mediawiki's insane amounts of URL's that is generated by not using "Short URL's".

It was resolved when we moved the wiki to another location, added the short URL's.

We have just redirected everything. (301).

No problem at all, had a wiki up and running without the "short URL's". So Google had ~19k errors on this one because of too long/complicated URL's. Removed it, problem solved and all errors resolved.

In google webmasters tools you have the feature "Crawl Errors". This one displays the top 1000 crawl errors google have on your site.

I have around 16k crawl errors at the moment, which all are fixed. But i can only mark 1000 of them as fixed each day/each time google crawls the site.  (This as it only displays top 1000 errors. When i have marked those as fixed it won't show other errors for a while.)

Does anyone know if it's possible to mark ALL errors as fixed in one operation?

Have you added keywords to the Rank Tracker? Took a week or so for the first ranks to pop up when i was on my 30 day trial-period.

Just checked the Keyword Analysis-tool. Same problem here, haven't used it before though. So i can't answer for that feature.

Anyway, i'd email SEOMOZ and explain the problems you have been having, the SEOMOZ-staff usually is very helpful if you have issues.

I'm not 100% sure how google treats subdomains these days, but normally i would think it would be best to use a folder within existing site to be able to profit from existing SERP.

Yes, this is seen as black hat by google and will be penalized.

See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353

Haven't experienced this myself, but the natural response is to send a mail to the author of the article where you ask politely if the author could add a link to the article. Pretty much all you can do.

I can't say if this will work (hopefully someone else can), but i guess you could try blocking ALL requests coming from those malicious links (even google). Hopefully google would pick up on this.

Just give it some time, if you use a 301 from the old url to the new one and report the changes via google webmasters tools it should update fairly quick. Should be no need to fix the links.

Edit (Fixing link instead of text):

See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-move-your-content-to-new.html

I'd say it's about time to use http://www.seomoz.org/about/contact

As long as you use a 301-redirect and report the change to google via google webmasters tools you will be fine. The rankings should transfer fine to the new domain.

As long as the old domain stays active and redirects the incoming links to the new domain using a 301-redirect it shouldn't matter whether they point to the old or the new domain.

Straight links should in theory be good though? (Like the following as a example: "Hosted by "Wehostthissite ?

I have no good answer here, but i would like one.

However: I can say that i haven't noticed any negative effect myself on one site where we have quite a bit of site-wide links on other sites due to the site owners giving us a small link in the header/footer. Seeing that this definately is "legit" links i would hope that there should be no negative changes due to this.

Thank you very much, did not know that list existed.

I can definately understand the need to invest. Have considered it on several occations myself, but haven't done it yet. Somewhat because of the cost, but mostly because i have no idea which of the paid sites that are actually worth paying for. Would be nice with a list of the sites that are actually worth the money so you can avoid the useless ones.

1: You never "need" to invest in a paid directory, just consider the price vs the returns. Personally i never pay for listings or links. I believe that the free services should be more than enough.

2: One listing on a high-ranking directory will ofcourse give you a small boost, but i'd assume that you would need a few listings to notice any permanent change in your ranking.

I'm not a expert on the SEO-bit, but generally i wouldn't bother with it. You have existing domains that work well, you have site(s) that's known in your market-segment and a well-known brand. In my opinion it won't do you any good to use http://a.brand instead of http://brand.com . .com-domains and national TLDs are well known amongst the users of the internet, new things/weird domains tend to scare people.

But if you/your company can afford to get a gTLD for your brand it would probably be a nice thing to just have "lying around" just in case. But i wouldn't bother spending a lot of work on it.

Edit: Checked your company, seeing that it's a furniture-company i wouldn't bother with it at all. Your customer-base seems to be "all the people". "All the people" are usually happy as long as they can find your-company.com/.no and so on.

OT: Nice to see more norwegians in here. Hi!