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Hey Eric;

Thank you for responding, my questions is more of a "why" is this URL ranking so well in the search results for "caliber signs and graphics", when the resulting SERP's are going to none existent pages.  The SERPS that are coming up in top positions are point to the following pages:

• http://www.calibersigns.com/
• http://calibersigns.com/top_frame.html
• http://www.calibersigns.com/contact.html

As you can see from these links there is no reason these pages should be in the index or rank for any search results. The domain authority is a whooping 13, with very few low value links pointing back the site.

I'm attaching some screen shots of the search results and the pages that are coming up.

So what gives? Why is this showing up?

Thanks

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Hello Moz Brains.

Came across a site that is coming up for "caliber signs and imaging" which is a brand I'm working with, and a few things have me baffled:

1.  The link in the SERP takes you to an error page (you can manually access it by dropping the www.)
2.  The entire site is setup with iFrams (header frame, body frame, and footer frame) navigating throughout the site keeps the single url and only swaps the body content.
3.  The site if for a sign company but the blog area served in the iFrame is in Indonesian and seems to about some soccer matches.
4.  The business associated with this site is in AZ, but they are coming in local (Irvine, CA) results with a dead page and no locally relevant content.

I'm I missing something or is Google missing something?

The site is "http://calibersigns.com/" and it belongs to a company in AZ.  -- it comes up for "caliber signs and imaging" (in my case on the 3rd spot) or even worse "caliber signs and graphics" where it seems to be at the top, with all the surrounding content being the true brand -- which makes it look like my clients Google+ reviews and other endorsements belong to them.

I have my local setting set to "92618", Irvine CA

Would love some feedback on this and your opinion on how we should proceed?

thanks in advance

Awesome, any thoughts on what I can check or do to see if there are any other potential issues with Google.  I'm a bit concerned that there is a penalty on this site.

-jack

Hey Andy;

Can you rerun the check on the site and see if my fix address the billion page issue?  www.calibersi.com, I added code to block the crawlers from indexing these pages and a redirect to an error page if the count exceeds the available posts.  It should do it but it would be great to get another set of eyes on it

• jack

Thanks Andy; looking into it now

I did add the to all these pages to prevent them from being crawled.  That should do the trick right?

I'll have to check the software to see why its doing that.

Hey Andy;

Thanks for the quick response: That would explain the 10k moz found, what tool did you use to create the attachment?

Although, I did add the to all these pages to prevent them from being crawled.

-jack

Hey there MOZ Geniuses;

While checking my webmaster data I noticed that almost all my Google impressions are generated by the home page, most other content pages are showing virtually no impression data <50 (the home page is showing around 1500 - a couple of the pages are in the 150-200 range).  the site has been up for about 8 months now.  Traffic on average is about 500 visitors, but I'm seeing very little entry other then the home page.

• Checking the number Sitemap section 27 of 30 are index
• Webmaster tools are not reporting errors
• Webmaster keyword impressions are also extremely low 164 keywords with the highest impression count of 79 and dropping from there.
• MOZ is show very few minor issues although it says that it crawled 10k pages? -- we only have 30 or so.

The answer seems obvious, Google is not showing my content ... the question is why and what steps can I take to analyze this?  Could there be a possibility of some type of penalty?

I welcome all your suggestions:  The site is www.calibersi.com

I'm looking into the result set for "vehicle graphics" with local setting set as Irvine, CA.  The first result is occupied by Airmark Co and its page "http://www.airmarkco.com/vehicle-graphics.html".  Doing a quick scan of this site and its page it seems that a few things are way off.

• Low DA: 12
• Low PA: 19
• Company is located out side of the local area (Irvine, ca)
• Offsite links coming into the site are few with only one external domain (from the company that built the site)

I'm comparing it to a site we launched a few months back, one that has a similar profile and yet is nowhere to be found -- http://www.calibersi.com/page/vehicle-graphics.

Would love to hear your thoughts as to why this site is outranking much stronger and relevant local sites (based on the SERP's that are coming back) ?

Hey Mike;

That did the trick, the issue was that in the Google menu bar the search tools: was set to Laguna Hills, when i changed that to United States the results move to page 4 ...

thanks again

Thanks Mike;

No matter what I do manually I still get the SERP in 4th place

• I'm logged out of google
• I cleared out all browser data, cache ....

Anything else that I can do to get none biased results?

Getting some mixed message on this.

Is the keyword ranking informational available in SEOMoz based on the data in Mozscape or based on live Google data?

Reason I ask is that my ranking for "crown moulding" for www.worldofmoulding differs:

• Based on the today's scan my www.worldofmoulding.com ranks in position 40 in Google.

• Based on a manual check with cleared out cache no local setting ... the site is 4th spot

• Running a third party check using "Advanced Web Ranking" tool it comes up in 9th spot, but they count the local business SERPs in which case it matches my manual search.

It seems that SEOMoz is not in line with actual ranking.

Any suggestion for what can be used to accurately asses SERP placement for terms?

That seems to be for their mozscape data,  I need to get access to my projects--anything on that end?

Is there an API for access project data is SEOMoz?

As I'm digging a little further into this, it seems that using the OSE ranking matrix for measuring our SEO efforts may not be the best idea.

i.e. http://www.seomoz.org/q/link-analysis

Based on your experience the data provided by Google Webmaster Tools (incoming links, domains ...) -- is that 100% of things out there connected to the site or is that partial data as well?  Is that the best dataset to  baseline the state of the site and building a history of link building performance?

One of the tools I use to manage links is Caphyon - "Advanced Link Manger", that tool is report the link as a "NoFollow".  I also noticed that LinkedIn is not coming up in the data provided for "Open Site Explorer" in none of the sites that I manage (site that i have Public Link in LinkedIn setup).

Do you feel that LinkedIn is passing Link Juice to your site?

Here is one of the profiles that should be working

http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanadiumtech

I'm not seeing a connection in Webmaster tools for this either.

I wanted to get some feedback from the community on the accuracy and dependability of the Open Site Explorer and its DA metrics when evaluating the strength of a website and its authority on the web.

It seems that the data available to OSE is quite different (limited) as compared to that of Google Webmaster tools.

A site I'm evaluating shows the following discrepancy:

Linking domains OSE = 11

Linking domains WMT = 95

Total Links OSE = 39

Total Links WMT = 579

With such a large discrepancy of linking domains and link backs, how accurate can the DA / PA metrics be - what goes into vs whats does not?

I read some place that date OSE is not comprehensive but should account for the top 20% of links (I maybe off here), that said in comparing root domain data it seems to be missing many domains with high DA scores but includes others with very low DA scores.

I would love some feedback or pointers on how much value I should be placing on the info provided by OSE, and opinions on how to truly define a baseline for a sites strength and its linkback structure.

It seems that linked in is doing some type of redirect on their links, that block them from passing value to the connected site.

Is there anyway to get link value out of public LinkedIn profiles, or did they shut that down?

Thank you both for getting back to me.

Recently we launched a site under a new domain, the site is doing well under the URL. Client calls me today and would like to have another domain he owns point to the new site. The domain he has has no history and no content. He is under the impression that people are looking for him by typing in www.domainxyz.com. I attempted to explain otherwise to him, but I lost. Question, what are the drawbacks of taking this domin and doing a perm redirect via . Httpaccess file?

Hey Mark Rand had a whitboard Friday that maybe worth watching regarding this -- 10 myths that scare SEO's but shouldn't on may 24th

Hey Mark; Content and traffic is a great thing but as a business owner I'm guessing the end result is to convert that traffic into a lead. How is your conversion? What would it be worth to you to increase that by 10-20 percent? Pictures can say a 1000 words, your site is very textual and informative but has little focus on visual queues for segmenting your audience and cleary providing your offering. What action do you want your audience to take? And how well do you present that in all your pages? Once I find your content, How do you take me from reading it to interacting with you? Unless you have that dialed in, spending your energy and money on attracting traffic will result in just that, traffic. My initial thought would be to enhance the home page and back pages with a conversion strategy, and once that is in place to continue your traffic efforts

One last thing;

It seems that I have a game plan for addressing this issue, but as I think about this one thing has me concerned in the way Roger crawled the site.

The site has maybe a total of 100 articles, which would account for ?Page=10, but what I'm seeing is errors on ?Page=104.  When you look at that page its a blank.  Where is Roger coming up with that parameter?

Do you think this is a Roger issue or something else?

Makes sense

Hey Jake;

Whats your option of using "nofollow" vs "follow" on the pages i'm blocking from indexing?  Is there a reason to prevent them from following the links on these pages?

Thank you again for the input, the goal here is not provide accurate reporting and ensure that the site conforms to the search engines requirements.

Currently the "?page=" parameter is not blocked through .  it sounds like this maybe the issue.

I will update the code to address that and see what kind of results we get with the next update.  I think this is best addressed at the code level, rather then the robots.txt.

Thanks

Hey Jake;

Thanks for your feedback, i did make some changes to the code (posted in the reply to Jamie).  I'll take a closer look at the webmaster tools to make sure things are OK on that end.

FYI: The "rel=prev / rel=next tags" are implemented

I added code to manage

to pages that are accessed through

• /Blog/?tag=
• /Blog/category/
• /Blog/archive.aspx

As a secondary concern, with Roger now reporting all these issues in SEOMoz, I provide these reports to my clients and thus having 16k errors is not a good PR thing. How do I tell Roger no to crawl these blank pages?

Hey Jamie;

In an effort to block crawling of pages on the blog that are essentially duplicating content I added coded (on (4/16) to insert :

to pages that are accessed through

/Blog/?tag=

/Blog/category/

/Blog/archive.aspx

I did not do this for

/Blog/?page=

There were no changes to the robots.txt

There were no updates to canonical tag

There were no updates to pagination

Thanks for your prompt reply

With the last crawl update to one of my sites there was a huge spike in errors reported. The errors jumped by 16,659 -- majority of which are under the duplicate title and duplicate content category.

When I look at the specific issues it seems that the crawler is crawling a ton of blank pages on the sites blog through pagination.

The odd thing is that the site has not been updated in a while and prior to this crawl on Jun 4th there were no reports of these blank pages.

Is this something that can be an error on the crawler side of things?

Any suggestions on next steps would be greatly appreciated.  I'm adding an image of the error spike

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