Deleting old obsolete pages from the Page Grades section?
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Last year we did a total site overhaul, moving from an old ASP site setup to a new WordPress set up. I notice that there are still a handful of old ASP pages being graded still - and turning up as F of course.
I tried marking them and deleting them, but hitting delete makes the check box clear, but does not remove the page. How do I get them totally out of grading circulation?
Also, some of the links are showing with session info and extra unnecessary characters - how can I clean those links up?
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Hello!
Our devs are working on a way to allow unwanted page grades to be removed from campaigns and we hope to have a solution ready very soon. As for the URLs session Ids our crawler will follow links as they are linked from the source code of a referring page and javascript can add those parameters as our crawler cannot parse javascript links that well.
With AJAX content like this, I know Google's full specifications: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification indicate that the #! and ?escaped_fragment= technique works for their crawlers. However, Roger is a bit picky and isn't robust enough yet to use only the sitemap as the reference in this case. Luckily, one of our wonderful users came up with a solution using pushState() method.
Click here: http://www.moz.com/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate to find out how to create crawl-able content using pushState . This should help our crawler read AJAX content. Let me know if this information works for you!
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All of the links have been redirected months ago, and they work. It just appears odd that these old pages that have been dead and redirected for over a year, would still appear on our grade sheet.
As for links, our donation pages are of course dynamic, but with it being on this ranking the way it is, it also seems to be on the full Moz report, and that causes it to be recognized as duplicate content, title, etc. with the actual non-dynamic link, as well as being marked as "overly dynamic."
Links like:
SHOULD actually be:
http://secure.ob.org/site/Donation2?5621.donation=form1&df_id=5621
The rest is just session details.
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If those pages are still ranking in the top 50 for one of the keywords in your campaign, they will continue to be graded. The on-page tool automatically grades pages in the top 50, giving you the opportunity to do a little work to improve a page that is already starting to rank. The fact that they have an F doesn't make any difference to anything.
However, you might not want sub-optimal pages hanging around--you could either redirect them to an appropriate new page (301) or else just 404 them (not found). If you have already done this, it might just need more time for Moz to catch up.
As far as the links, which links do you mean? Sometimes people do link to sites using links with extra, unnecessary characters.
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