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Rankings drop:

http://imgur.com/phlwunJ

On April 14th all of these rankings dropped on the same day by 10+ places and have got worse since.

Hi Dan,

The issue seems to be that since I installed Yoast SEO and have had sitewide noodp activated that the rankings have dropped.

Do you think this could be playing a part?

Thanks,

Joshua

Can anyone help further with this?

Hi Eric,

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I wonder how it is possible that when the website was set to block robots, no index & follow and no rel-canonical it was ranking really well and since the change it has severly dropped?

What are the best settings to have for my home page which has most of the backlinks pointing to it?

Thanks,
Joshua

Hi guys,

I was ranking really well on my home page for certain keywords which has all dropped pretty dramatically over the last 3/4 weeks - I think the issue is since since the configuration of Yoast SEO Wordpress plugin.

In March (when my rankings were strong) my crawl test showed the top data in the attached image, and in May (now the rankings have dropped severly) they show the bottom data.

I don't fully understand canonical and Meta Robots so I am hoping someone can shed some light on the following points.

1. Will the change result in my loss of rankings.
2. How can I put it back to how it was in March?

PS. I haven't had any Google penalties.

Thanks,
Joshua

RfTar

Hey Mozers!

Moz Crawl tells me I am having an issue with my Wordpress category - it is returning a 5XX error and i'm not sure why? Can anyone help me determine the issue?

Crawl Issues and Notices for:

http://www.refusedcarfinance.com/news/category/news

We found 1 crawler issue(s) for this page.

High Priority Issues

1

5XX (Server Error)

5XX errors (e.g., a 503 Service Unavailable error) are shown when a valid request was made by the client, but the server failed to complete the request. This can indicate a problem with the server, and should be investigated and fixed.

Thank you for taking the time out Dirk you have put my mind to rest.

Good morning,

As my title says, 'Moz On-Page Grader doesn't pick up my Title, URL, Meta, H1, Body, IMG ALT's....does this mean Google won't?'

My URL is www.refusedcarfinance.com and I'm currently targeting the Keyword 'bad credit car finance'.

I am using Yoast SEO and have the keyword in my title, meta, content, h1's etc.

Any advice would my much appreciated.

Kindest regards,

Joshua