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Let me re-word this ...

Should an order page be canonical to a product description page?

We have inherited a site that has a Joomla CMS "showroom" front-end and a Magento "store room" for check out etc.

Question - As the site's main pages are in the CMS section should we:

1. make all Magento product pages canonical to the main sections/product pages within the CMS (even though there are no duplicate content issues)

2. "No index" the product pages

3. Index but indicate low page value in sitemap

4. Do something else?

Thanks for any and all input!

Thanks for the responses.

We're still examining the change in traffic volume, source and search terms.

We have a couple of theories on what's going on and will revert back after the next Mozscape index update.

HI Tom

Thanks for this.  I looked at the suspicious links and they seem to be false positives.  Mostly revolving around our brand name "military plaques"

Noted on the low quality /dead links - will have these removed.

Hi

This site www.militaryplaques.com

We have had steady traffic over a number of years with the site both on terms of impressions, click through rates, bounce rates, time on site and most importantly sales.

The site has remained fairly static over the last 6 months with no significant changes to content or structuire.

However, on July 11 our traffic and impressions crashed by over 90% and remain at this low level.

We have never been hit by Panda but this looks like such a case?!

Any insight or suggestions as to why the sudden "de-listing" may have happened?

R/

John J Morgan

Thanks Peter for your assistance.

Hope to hear from the SEOMOZ team soon with regards to this issue.

This is for our client with a subdomain. We only want to analyze their main website as this is the one we want to SEO. The subdomain is not optimized so we know it's bound to have lots of errors.

We added the disallow code when we started and it was working fine. We only saw the errors for the main domain and we were able to fix them. However, just a month ago, the errors and warnings spiked up and the errors we saw were for the subdomain.

As far as our web guys are concerned. the disallow code is still there and was not touched.    User-agent: rogerbot     Disallow: /

We would like to know if there's anything we might have unintentionally changed or something we need to do so that the SEOMOZ crawler will stop going through the subdomain.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you so much for the response. At least we know why it has remained the same for so long. Thanks for the info!

We are doing a Competitive Domain Analysis for a client and 2 of their competitors.

The results from the Root Domain Metrics have been ok from the past months where in the results we are getting changes every time the website is re-crawled by SEOMOZ to update its analysis.

However, in the past few weeks, the results we are getting for the Root Domain Metrics have remained the same even after three weeks. We have attempted a separate Open Site Explorer analysis for the client and their competitors but be are getting the same results.

From the "Domain Authority" to the "No Followed Linking Root Domains", the results have remained the same for three weeks.

Could anything be affecting the results or is it just the fact that the links have not changed (not a single one, for three websites) in the past three weeks.

Hope you can help me clarify my issue. Thanks!

Thanks Robert,

So the weekly historical changes for the month will appear after the next crawl?

R/