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  • VanadiumInteractive
    VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:31 PM

    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

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    • VanadiumInteractive
      VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 28, 2014, 6:02 PM Feb 28, 2014, 6:02 PM

      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

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      • Andy.Drinkwater
        Andy.Drinkwater @VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 28, 2014, 5:40 PM Feb 28, 2014, 5:40 PM

        Much better Jack 🙂

        I see only about 50 pages now. Hopefully this will cure some of your issues now.

        -Andy

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        • VanadiumInteractive
          VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 28, 2014, 5:13 PM Feb 28, 2014, 5:13 PM

          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
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          • Andy.Drinkwater
            Andy.Drinkwater @VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:51 PM Feb 27, 2014, 4:51 PM

            Great stuff. Hop back if you are still having problems 🙂

            -Andy

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            • VanadiumInteractive
              VanadiumInteractive @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:51 PM Feb 27, 2014, 4:51 PM

              Thanks Andy; looking into it now 🙂

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              • Andy.Drinkwater
                Andy.Drinkwater @VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:51 PM Feb 27, 2014, 4:48 PM

                I would look at your Wordpress install first Jack. There is no way this sort of number of pages should be getting generated. Sort that out and you have sorted a huge problem out.

                -Andy

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                • VanadiumInteractive
                  VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:45 PM Feb 27, 2014, 4:45 PM

                  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.

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                  • Andy.Drinkwater
                    Andy.Drinkwater @VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:43 PM Feb 27, 2014, 4:43 PM

                    Hi Jack,

                    I used Screaming Frog Spider to run the report, which is still going and up to about 9k pages so far.

                    -Andy

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                    • VanadiumInteractive
                      VanadiumInteractive last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:44 PM Feb 27, 2014, 4:42 PM

                      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

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                      • Andy.Drinkwater
                        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by Feb 27, 2014, 4:40 PM Feb 27, 2014, 4:39 PM

                        I just ran a very quick scan of your site and you have thousands of blog and category pages.

                        There is a chance because of this that you are seeing a penalty - This is just one of the pages: http://www.calibersi.com/category/Vehicle-Graphics?page=1904

                        I would start by having a quick look at how the site / blog is setup and seeing if there is anything glaringly obvious there.

                        -Andy

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