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Hi David,

I've since spoken to our host at WP Engine and they confirmed they were blocking rogerbot. Is dotbot another crawler from MOZ I need to make an exception for?

Seems INSANE to me that our host would just block your bots for no reason and without notification. Do you run into this often? Any thoughts on why?

Yes it did.

On Page Grader has this lovely little re-grade page button next to the URL and term field but it's never worked on the fly for me. What's going on here? You discover something critical, fix it and you want the satisfaction of re-grading to test it and get that A but it doesn't work. I can see the changes on the site so why not??

Isn't a 403 a permissions error? It seems impossible to me that some of our high ranking pages are returning this error and we have not noticed before. Where are you seeing this info?

Wow. Seems crazy. Would something like that effect our ranking as well?

Okay thanks for the info Erin. I guess my concern is that our site has been around for years. It's not new and it's the one metric that doesn't seem to make any sense.

Are you able to look at our site and tell me if there are any crawl issues?

Our web site IYBI is reporting only one internal equity passing link. I've somehow never noticed this and now that we are doing a lot more competitor analysis, I'm a little concerned given the numbers some of the other sites in the space are getting. I'm not sure I understand it completely and how it's possible we only have one. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the reply but I think you misunderstood the question. I was not asking if there's an issue with using press shots but whethere there were tried and tested ways of making that press shot 'original' again and testing that. Say, maing it balck and white or placing text over the top etc.

We're helping a Sydney blog called Happy develop their local following and we're starting by ensuring their posts are optimized. They're doing a great job with reviews and content but the one thing we noticed is that all the images they use (because they review music) are from bands and artists that are used tens if not hundreds of times in other places. We're trying to set up a simple way for them to tweak these images to ensure they're crawled and seen as original. Anyone had to deal with this and found a solution that makes sense?

I've notice many sites MOZ included no longer use the target: blank attribute. I think that's what it's called. Basically when a link on your site opens a new tab in the browser as opposed to replacing the browser window you are in.  Given that MOZ think of everything, I would love to hear opinions on this.