Crawl Diagnostics shows two title and meta tag errors but they are false positives.
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I got one hit each on "Missing Meta Description Tag" and "Title Missing or Empty" but in the source of my page they are clearly there:
<title>Protein Powder | Compare and Get the Best Prices</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="protein powder, whey protein, protein supplement, whey protein isolate, hydrolyzed whey" />
I understand there are conventions which may or may not be followed by Drupal (I read an earlier question where ordering and W3C conventions were suggested) but i'm not sure how to fix them given Drupal will just overwrite any hand editing the next time something is built and importantly, I can't get the crawl to work on cue - it works on the automatic once a week crawl in the main campaign summary but every time I've specifically used the Crawl Test tool it gives me a "There was an error submitting your request to the crawler. Please try again later" so I can't really test any changes. Given Google seems to be recognising the title tag - ie showing it in the results - Do I put this down as seomoz just not working?
Kind Regards,
Brian
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Which means you should have a read of this SEOMoz article about redirection.
In regards to your title... It all seems well and good, so it may be one of these other issues that are causing your problem
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I just submitted a crawl request with SEOmoz. "Your crawl request was successfully submitted and RogerBot is ready to be released. We'll be sending your report via email in the next few days."
It seems like it is working without any issue. If you PM me your e-mail address, I can forward it to you upon receipt.
I did visit your site and immediately noticed it is duplicated. The www and non-www version of your URL both provide the same web page.
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the domain is proteinpowder.com.au
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Hello Josh, thank you, do you think that will help the seomoz crawl find the title? I'll get on with doing it, I was coming back here to reply that I found http://www.seomoz.org/q/does-my-overly-dynamic-website-hurt-my-seo and will try and make the urls better also.
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You need to add a canonical reference to stop that:
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The site has a Order By function (on date, rating etc) on the front and I see Google's webmaster tools is seeing different permutations of this as "duplicate titles" ie it's displaying 30 of these:
/?sort_by=field_rating_rating&sort_order=ASC&items_per_page=10&page=6&paging=23&sortby=rating
/?sort_by=field_rating_rating&sort_order=ASC&items_per_page=10&page=6&paging=24&sortby=rating
/?sort_by=field_rating_rating&sort_order=ASC&items_per_page=10&page=7&paging=14&sortby=rating
/?sort_by=field_rating_rating&sort_order=ASC&items_per_page=10&page=7&paging=23&sortby=rating -
If you are willing to share your URL, we can try the crawl test. Otherwise your only course of action would be e-mailing help@seomoz.org
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Thanks Josh and Ryan,
Yes, don't know where my head was at at all there, I'll have to pretend I didn't ask that. I was mainly thinking about the title error. Maybe the fb related
<meta property="og:title" content="Protein Powder" /> is conflicting? Also, I can't use the Crawl Test to check that out unfortunately it keeps erroring. Bah I've never used Drupal before, thanks for the help.
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A great free crawler you can use as an alternative is Link Sleuth. This is a very effective crawler but it is also old school (think DOS). Another great crawler is Screaming Frog. You can use these crawlers at times when you desire a second opinion, or have issues with, the SEOmoz crawler.
Joshua otherwise nails the answer to your meta description tag problem.
For issues with the SEOmoz crawler repeatedly stating to "Please try again later", you may wish to e-mail help@seomoz.org for some assistance.
Drupal will just overwrite any hand editing the next time something is built...
There should be an override system of some sort which allows you to maintain template changes after updates. I am not familiar enough with Drupal to comment further but any major CMS likely offers something to deal with this issue.
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Ok first and formest: The Meta Description ≠ Meta Keywords.
You've pasted:
<meta name="keywords" content="protein powder, whey protein, protein supplement, whey protein isolate, hydrolyzed whey" />
Which is different from:
<meta name="description" content="Focusing on whey protein powder supplement that's the best in the business." />
Notice the bold bit in the above examples. The keywords element is good for validity but essentially unimportant. The description tag however is crucial to clickthroughs as it will entice the reader on a SERP to click on your link over the ones around it.
Secondly, when you're designing your Drupal template, you should certainly be able to re-arrange these elements. Have a play with page.tpl.php and drupal_set_head() - (I think) and see what you can do. That's not crucially important though. Also ensure that you don't have duplicate <title>tags, as this may be causing your issue with it reading a blank one and getting confused. Also ensure that they are inside the <head> tags. </span></span></p> <p><span>The <a title="SEOMoz Crawl Test" href="http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test">SEOMoz Crawl Test</a> can probably also help you out because it gives reports on what it finds on each page!</span></p> <p>Have a play and let us know how you go!</p></title>
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