A question about Mozbot and a recent crawl on our website.
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Hi All,
Rogerbot has been reporting errors on our website's for over a year now, and we correct the issues as soon as they are reported.
However I have 2 questions regarding the recent crawl report we got on the 8th.
1.) Pages with a "no-index" tag are being crawled by roger and are being reported as duplicate page content errors. I can ignore these as google doesnt see these pages, but surely roger should ignore pages with "no-index" instructions as well? Also, these errors wont go away in our campaign until Roger ignores the URL's.
2.) What bugs me most is that resource pages that have been around for about 6 months have only just been reported as being duplicate content. Our weekly crawls have never picked up these resources pages as being a problem, why now all of a sudden? (Makes me wonder how extensive each crawl is?)
Anyone else had a similar problem?
Regards
GREG
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Its pretty big
Over 1000 Pages in the index, and many more internal URLs to crawl that have a no-index tag. (booking forms etc)
Ill see if we can archive our other campaigns and let roger crawl our main site properly.
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How big is your website Greg ?
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Thanks Nakul,
I do a weekly scan with Xenu which doesn't have a URL limit like SF.
I was under the impression a full scan of the site was done each week, but as you say, its being scanned in chunks, divided across our 3 other websites.
If this is the case, it would be great to let Mozbot know were to crawl to avoid unnecessary resources being used up when it could be scanning our most important pages.
Greg
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Greg The crawl is limited to 10,000 (Total) for all your 5 campaigns. As far as whether or not Roger-Bot should ignore Noindex - Here's what I think - I think the intent of that tool here is to find issue. In this scenario, Roger bot is making sure you are aware of the fact that some of those pages have a noindex. Roger does not know whether it's intentional or not. You can also do a deeper crawl and do a deep dive into your website by using Screaming Frog SEO Spider http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ It does a great job of doing a deep crawl when you want it since it's a desktop software and you can set all sorts of options and identify issues.
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