Which tools are better? SEOMoz Tools or Bruce Clay's Tools.
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I've ALWAYS wanted to hear some discussion on this, please give me your honest opinion so I can make the correct decision.
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Ive used both Bruce Clay and SeoMoz toolsets. The one thing I really liked about Bruce Clays tools is that I can punch in a url and get a full analysis report within minutes. Seomoz takes a week. That's a major drawback in my opinion.Seomoz has a great q and a forum so thats a major plus.
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You are most welcome Aspirant!
In my case, the parameters are disregarded due to the same page being listed 15 times, one for each sort order. An example of the parameters involved are ?order=asc, type=authorname.
In the above case, once Google has evaluated the main page, there is no reason for them to look any further. The other pages offer the identical content sorted differently, so I instruct Google to disregard those pages.
If you wish to tell Google to disable parameter pages take the following steps: Log into Google WMT, select your domain then Site Configuration > Settings > Parameter Handling tab. Choose your parameter from the list (in your case ?from is not on the list so you would ad it) then change the Action to ignore.
Without seeing your pages I am not sure if the above is the best approach for you, but if you want to use the process, here is the information. The process for Bing is very similar to Google.
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Thank you for your reply Journeyman! Right now I have an article directory on one of my sites. SEOMoz Crawl errors are reporting the following:
www.sitename.com/articles/?from=0
www.sitename.com/articles/?from=10
www.sitename.com/articles/?from=100
www.sitename.com/articles/?from=105
etc.... www.sitename.com/articles/?from=225
The crawl errors are for duplicate page title and duplicate page content. You said, "In Google WMT and Bing I have provided instructions to disregard the parameter pages and only index the main page."
Do I need to be doing the same thing you're doing with the parameters in WMT? If so, do you have a link to Google that will show me how and explain things a little bit further about parameters?
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Specifically in regards to crawl errors...I try to use seo tools from a multitude of different sources to see if the errors (if any) they are returning are comparable. If I see the same errors across multiple tools then I usually try to drill down and fix the problem at that point.
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I used some of Bruce Clays a while ago, wasn't as many tools as you get here... he might have more now. I found that I preferred the SEOmoz tools anyway. I still think you get some great and valuable info from Bruce Clay Inc but over-all I'd say here was best for tools and data. Just my opinion.
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How often are the tools the deciding factor in what you do?
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My feeling are the same as Richard.
I only use the SEOmoz tools but would like to learn about other tools which overcome some limitations of the SEOmoz tools.
For example, I don't like the moz crawl reports. They lack the ability to offer customizations. I have category pages which offer the ability to use order parameters. In Google WMT and Bing I have provided instructions to disregard the parameter pages and only index the main page. I need a crawl tool that can either pull these settings, or allow me to set them in the tool.
A good crawl report is one that provides actionable data. To see the same 3000 error records every week is annoying, and it makes it more difficult to drill down to the few pages which actually require attention. It would be nice to share the crawl report with a client without having to say "just disregard those 3000 error messages as they are not important".
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I am giving a thumbs up to this post as I am also interested in the findings. I have only use, and plan to use SEOmoz as their tools are very good, and are getting better.
The biggest issue I have with SEOmoz is the lack of incorporating old tools into the new campaigns. I am sure that is being worked on.
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