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Hi all!

I look after a website where it's been discovered a section of the website has the noarchive robots meta tag active on it causing it to not get cached but has been indexed.

Out of curiosity has anyone seen any negative effects from Google for having pages that aren't cached? It's not the strongest section on the website so makes it tricky to judge myself but interested if anyone had any thoughts on the matter.

Cheers,

I'd agree with Deb and it's good to keep an eye on competitors but always best to make them want to catch you

It almost sounds like SS rankings are being affected by your own type of personalisation or possibly something to do with this: http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/08/google-rank-modifying-spammers-patent/

Regarding SG if what you say is true regarding their links then they must have a lot of good quality links which is cementing their position near the top of the SERPs.

As discussed I wouldn't emulate any of their link profiles but build what's good for the site and feels right for them.

Lastly kind of on topic, site wide links aren't always a bad thing, if they bring traffic they are definitely worth it IMO.

I can't officially answer this but I believe it's due to Google's reach of tracking links to be much more vast than SEOMoz's current capacity, despite itself doing a very good job.

If the difference is as big as that I'd be willing to bet that the majority of your links are coming from unseen blogs that Google has found and SEOMoz have not.

HTH

Wait a tick, solved it now.  I'm sure the stats at the top used to display the settings you've specified.  Appears it onyl display that exact page now!

The metrics I was after now display directly under the filter options... Massive D'oh moment by myself...

I know that, it's something in the pipeline but it's not what I was asking.  Cheers anyway though

Hi SEOMozers,

I am trying to check a record of links to one of the websites I help look after.  One problem with the site is the home page automatically redirects to /home which seems to make OSE give some weird results.

I can give out the domain if need be but I would rather not if I can help it To sum up what's happening when you put the domain into OSE with the /home then I get the social figures but the link number is right out saying the site has 200 links.

Typing in the domain without the /home brings up no social figures and 15k links which looks more correct.  Also OSE has the notification about the redirect and if I'd like to go to the /home version.

The weird thing is however is if I change the filter to 'Pages on this root domain' which should show all links pointing to the website, the figures don't change...?

Has anyone experienced this? Any solutions? Or is it a known bug?

Cheers for any help in advance!

Wow nice one mate did not know that in the Top Pages tab that is perfect! I'll remember to click around more often now.

I found this tool on my adventures which was exactly what I was after: http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/tools/bulk-http-header-compare/

Also cheers for your walkthrough, having problems with the site still bleeding 404 pages, first thing first however is fixing these pages getting high quality links to them

Cheers again!

Cheers Andy & Kyle

Problem with this tool as it works similar to Xenu which is great for making sure your current navigation isn't causing problems.

My problem is there are over 15k links pointing to all sorts of articles and I have no idea what's live and what's not.  Running the site through that tool won't report the pages that aren't linked in the navigation anymore but are still being linked to.

Example is manually checking some of the links I've found that the site has quite a few links from the BBC going to 404 pages.  Running the site through Xenu or Screamy Frog doesn't find these pages.

Ideally I'm after a tool I can slap in a load of URLs and it'll do a simple HTTP header check on them.  Only tools I can find do 1 or 10 at a time which would take quite a while trying to do 15k!

Hi all,

I'm currently looking after a collection of old newspaper sites that have had various developments during their time. The problem is there are so many 404 pages all over the place and the sites are bleeding link juice everywhere so I'm looking for a tool where I can check a lot of URLs at once.

For example from an OSE report I have done a random sampling of the target URLs and some of them 404 (eek!) but there are too many to check manually to know which ones are still live and which ones have 404'd or are redirecting. Is there a tool anyone uses for this or a way one of the SEOMoz tools can do this?

Also I've asked a few people personally how to check this and they've suggested Xenu, Xenu won't work as it only checks current site navigation.

Thanks in advance!