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Ahh, that explains it - thanks Mike

Iain.

Apologies if this question has been asked a million times, but I can't find it.

I have 35 pages, yet only 5 of them have generated On Page Optimization Reports. I know I can create them manually, but wondered if I've done something incorrectly?

Iain.

Wow, thank you everyone so much. I had a feeling you guys would know the answer.

I really appreciate your help.

Iain.

One of my top keyphrases is manchester magician and using Google Adwords Keyword Tool this produces exactly the same number of views as _magician manchester _and again the exact same for magician in manchester.

So I assumed from this that Google views them the same. But looking at the SEOMoz On-Page tool, this doesn't appear to be the case as my grade is different for each keyphrase.

So, I guess my question is, if this is the case and they are considered different, how would I find out which one really  is the most searched for so I can optimize accordingly.

Many thanks,

Iain.

Thank you, that is very reassuring, phew!

When you say 250 or so, is that pages? My site only has about 35 pages. I'm happy to wait as long as it takes, just didn't want to miss something.

Iain.

I joined SEOMoz 6 days ago and set up my first campaign straight away.

On my Campaign Overview, it says: "Here's what you can expect over the coming days (we'll send you an email when each step is completed".

But I've not received an email saying that any of the steps are completed, so I haven't really used any of the tools yet as I wanted to wait until I had something to work with

Since it's almost been 7 days (will be 7 tomorrow), do I assume that most if not all of the stages have now been completed and I can get started?

Thanks,

Iain.

Thanks, Tom - I'll have a go at that and make an actual robots.txt file and upload it.

It is odd though and when I was creating my WP pages there are Yoast Options for each page - several of them I set to noindex, though looking at the virtual robots.txt, these isn't the case. My file just has:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Thanks again for all your help,

Iain.

Cheers Tom,

Yeah it is rather strange. There doesn't appear to be another plugin that should be causing this. Yoast is certainly the one relating to SEO.

Iain.

Thanks Tom,

When I click Edit Files in Yoast it says:
"If you had a robots.txt file and it was editable, you could edit it from here."

And yet, I do have one (albeit it appears a virtual one) as it can be viewed here:
http://www.iainmoran.com/robots.txt

If I try to view the site files on the server, via FTP or CPanel, there is no robots.txt file there!

I appear to be using the latest version of Yoast.

Thanks,

Iain.

Thanks so much for your reply, Tom - very useful indeed!

I'm using Yoast SEO for WordPress, which apparently creates a virtual robots.txt and I can't see anyway to edit it as such. Unlike the posts themselves, which I can set to "noindex", the dynamic pages I cannot.

Unless I make my own robots.txt and upload it to my server, but I'm concerned that it will confuse matters and conflict with the one created/managed by Yoast?

Thanks again,

Iain.

While I can't recommend which option is best, I can certainly suggest a good Plugin to use. I've used it myself and it works rather well:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

It's easy to use and also keeps track of 404 errors.