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I have seen a remarkable positive change this morning in rankings on one site which we have been trying to recover from an algorithmic penalty, however this appears to be an isolate result unique to Moz. Other tools show no such recovery in rankings for that site. Other similar sites we are tracking in Moz show no significant changes this morning.

Hi guys,

I'm still struggling with this problem. I've tried Moz help and they suggested I try back here again. Basically there is a 302 somewhere in the system that's stopping me from adding www.Isotopx.com as a campaign in Moz. I've removed the htaccess file (although it didn't actually contain a 302) and waited three days in case the DNS needed to update but the 302 remains.

The most recent reply I received from Moz help included this information…

'The weird thing is that I tried some header checkers and hit the site as googlebot and bingbot. Googlebot gave a 200 but bingbot didn't so this 302 seems a bit selective. There may be something on the server level doing this.'

I've spoken to the hosting company and they assure me that there are no redirects on the server. Can anyone think of where this 302 might be hiding?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Colin

Hi all,

All diverts have been removed but I'm still unable to add Isotopx.com. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Colin Fenwick

Hi Onlinq,

The canonical instruction is to stop duplicate home pages being indexed i.e. /index and /index.html.

I think that David has homed in on the problem, I just now need to find out where that 302 is hiding!

Thanks,

Colin

Hi David,

Thanks for your help here. The 301 is obviously to get rid of the non-www form but there is nothing in the .htaccess file for that 302. The hosts changed the server IP address a little while back and I'm currently checking with them whether the 302 is sitting on the server for some reason.

Hopefully I'll be able to get to the bottom of it.

Thanks again,

Colin

Hi, I've tried every combination including with and without the HTTP://, with and without www, down to simply Isotopx.com but I get the same response every time.

Sorry, I don't know what else to add!

Hi, I'm trying to add http://www.isotopx.com/ as a campaign in my Moz account but I keep being told the URL is invalid. The site is active on the Internet and I have Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics access so I'm confused why Moz is struggling to connect.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks George, for your time to answer. I will check again with the developer and forward your comments, however I have discussed it with him and he is also confused as to why this is happening.

I am working on an eCommerce website that has been written in WordPress with the shop pages in E commerce Plus PHP v6.2.7. All the shop product pages appear to work fine in a browser but 404 errors are returned when the pages are crawled. WMT also returns a 404 error when ‘fetch as Google’  is used.

Here is a typical page:

http://www.flyingjacket.com/proddetail.php?prod=Hepburn-Jacket

Why is this page returning a 404 error when crawled? Please help?

Hi Chris,

There are 1259 temporary (302) redirects (the web designer has a problem changing them to 301 redirects and so has left the site like that). These redirects all point to the same page - the log-in page - (as one can not write reviews on products unless logged in). I am concerned that this may look like spam behavior and may be negatively affecting ranking.

I feel it is up to the web designer to complete the site (and remove the 302s) however the web designer considers their job complete. I am trying to decide weather to take on the challenge and try to sort out the site in osCommerce (of which I have no experience) or weather it is better to start a WordPress blog on a fresh domain to attract traffic until the site owner is ready to rewrite the site in a more SEO friendly format. Currently the site is indexed but will not rank for even the company name.

Thanks so much for you help.

Alison

I have seen a remarkable positive change this morning in rankings on one site which we have been trying to recover from an algorithmic penalty, however this appears to be an isolate result unique to Moz. Other tools show no such recovery in rankings for that site. Other similar sites we are tracking in Moz show no significant changes this morning.

Hi Steve,

I think your problem lies in the site speed.

We had this problem with WordPress we solved it by switching to a linux server from a windows server. Have you checked this?

Good Luck

Alison

Hi Steve,

If you have moved the site over to WordPress but remained on a windows server this could be causing the speed problems. Could be because I am in the UK but the site is dead slow and caused time out errors on many pages with the crawl tool I used (Screaming Frog). There are 40 (404) errors on your site - mostly from the e-mail link in the top corner of each page - its broken. Are you monitoring webmaster tools for errors? If that has been broken for a while it could be a factor.

Adding suitable categories and tags to your posts can really help in WordPress. I can recommend this guide to WordPress SEO: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

The site is coming up in searches - I am surprised that WordPress did not improve the rankings it usually does, but WordPress can be slow.

Hope this helps

Alison