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@terentyev thank you, that's what we did and the new crawl came out clean.

Hi there,

We upgraded our webshop last weekend and our moz crawl on monday found a lot of errors we are trying to fix. I am having some communication problems with our webmaster so I need a little help.

We have extremely long category pages url, does anyone have a guess which kind of mistake our webmaster could make:
https://site-name.pl/category-name?page=3?resultsPerPage=53?resultsPerPage=53 ....

And it keeps on repeating the string ?resultsPerPage=53 exactly 451 times as if there was some kind of loop.

Thanks in advance for any kind of hint
Kind regards,
Isabelle

I see your point: nicely done for UX because you see the different colors in small squares already on the category page. For now we don't have this option, I will see with our webmaster, it's quite interesting.

Isabelle

Hi,

Thank you for your answer, according to me drop down is not suitable to all product categories. For clothes it is a standard but not for bikes, and it could be bad for UX. This is why we wanted to use canonical on colors for specific categories.

Isabelle

Hi,

I would like to have an opinion on what how we are planning to solve the issue with Duplicate Page Contents that MOZ PRO is showing us.

MOZ Pro is showing us a lot of pages with duplicate content as High Priority Issue. Mainly the problem is with products which have very few differences between them, e.g. pink bike model X and red bike model X.

So we decided to implement a canonical tag on these products, and the pink bike model X will now have a canonical pointing to the red bike model X. So hopefully we will be ranking higher with our red bike model X and our pink bike model X will disapear from the index. Am I right ?

Is it a good practice, since we will loose long tails indexes? I check each canonical in the Search Console, and we have extremely few searched for "pink bike model X" most of searches are "bike model X".

Thank you in advance for your opinion.

Isabelle

Thanks a lot. In the end my webmaster solved the problem, nothing we be hidden this time, but the hint about js script instead of display none is valuable, thanks.

Well, in some way it is intentional because my webmaster decided to do so, somehow he had a problem with leaving the first paragraf at the top. I am not a webmaster myself, so I don't know what the problem is. Now I am trying to understand whether I should let it go or tell him he has to find a way out of it

Thank you for your answer, it helps. Your wrote "i personally use a readmore script for mobile users" : my webmaster suggests one of the 2 scripts:

1. http://jsfiddle.net/rbUst/ with overflow:hidden
2. https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_collapse.asp with display:none

I heard display:none is not so good, any clue whether one of them is better for SEO?

Isabelle

Hi there,

We have product category descriptions in our webshop, with one smal difference:

• desktop: the first paragraf is at the top above the products with a scroll down to the other paragrafs below the products
• mobile: the whole text is below the products

I am wondering whether it is allright in regards of the mobile first index, or should we have exactly the same paragraf split on the desktop and mobile version?

Eg. dadum.pl/zabawki

Thanks in advance for your opinions.

Isabelle

Put it this way, it sounds clear and obvious, thank you !

Thanks VIjay, everythings clear !

Hi,

Do naked link anchors such as "www.mysite.com/my-category" have the same SEO power as long tails anchors? What about the UX which such anchors?

Lately a site published our back-to-school article with this horrible naked link anchor, it does not look friendly to me as a reader, but I am wondering whether I should bother, how important it is for google and for readers?

Thank you in advance.

Isabelle

Hi,

As I understand www.blahblah.com/portfolio/kangaroos is the page nr 1 of your kangaroos portfolio, www.blahblah.com/portfolio/kangaroos/2 is the page nr 2 and so on. So it seems to me you should implement a canonical tag on the page  www.blahblah.com/portfolio/kangaroos/2 . You can read there on moz about canonical tags. Implementation in Wordpress depends on your skin, if you skin does not support canonical tags in the standard version, then you should probably install an addon like Yoast SEO (https://kb.yoast.com/kb/canonical-urls-in-wordpress-seo/).

Hope it helps.

Isabelle

Hi Joe,

Thank you so much for your answer. As a matter of fact much of these 3,500 pages don't receive much traffic anymore, but a lot of them have natural external links since they were product pages. The problem is, I don't know how to check it.

Your informations regarding the Search Console are usefull, so I will have to live with it being full of crawl errors. But what should I do with MOZ PRO showing some of the 404 as High Priority Issues? Does it actually mean, that those url's are somehow important and should be 301 redirect? So is MOZ PRO more liable than the Search Console on this point?

Hi there,

Moz Pro is showing us 404 errors on our site as High Priority Issues. These 404 errors regard deleted product pages, which we did not 301. Should we 301 them all backwards ?

We have an ecommerce site. After reading How Should You Handle Expired Content? on Moz and a few other Q&A discussions I now know we should 301 each expired url and now we do so. My concern is with what was done in the past, and what we should do about it:

• for the past few years we have been leaving the pages on the site, creating a big amount of outdated url's without either content nor traffic
• in march our IT decided to delete these url's, and ask for a webpage removal in Google Search Console: we 301 only a 40 url's and 404 the other 3500
• now 6 monthts after, we still have 2500 crawl errors in the Search Console, and Moz Pro finding each week new 404 errors

Our SEO consultant says we should not bother about the errors shown in the Search Console. But I am concerned about these errors not reducing, and about Moz Pro High Priority Issues: should we 301 the url's to similar categories or products?

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your quick answer, now I'am clear what we have to do.

-Isabelle

Hi,

I am just starting with MOZ PRO and trying to handle the high priority issues, starting with pages with 4XX Client Error. I am wondering what we should do with pages with no traffic and no external links. For instance:

So time ago we change the URL structure of our blog to a flatter one, and so eg we moved a page:

• from: domain-name/dla-rodzicow/poradniki/poradniki-po-markach/vilac/vilac-zabawki-z-dusza
• to: domain-name/dla-rodzicow/poradniki/marka-vilac/vilac-zabawki-z-dusza/

Still not very flat but this is not the point.

MOZ PRO shows we are having internal links to the old url. According to MOZ PRO, we don't have external links. According to Analytics we have no traffic on the old page.

So now we changed the internal link, and I am wondering whether we should 301 redirect the old page to the new one, or whether a sitemap update is enough for this kind of pages ?

Thanks in advance for your help.