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I am very new to this website and signed up within the month. I have seen the crawled results of my website www.davidwaddleton.com but I just don't know what to do with the information.
For example I get duplicates/errors/suggestions and I look at them but don't know how to fix them.
Can you please recommend how I can move forward as a newbie? I feel overwhelmed with the amount of errors and duplicates. There are hundreds!
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For figuring out the reports, be sure to go to the help hub that Mike mentioned at http://www.seomoz.org/help. We have a lot of details there about what each of the notices and warnings mean.
Do feel free to come here and ask questions. Welcome to SEOmoz!
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Hi David
Without knowing what your errors are, it's hard to say but, I notice you have a wordpress site, so I'll offer another add-on suggestion to the other excellent suggestions above.
Some of your errors might be 404 errors - there is a great plugin called redirection. If you have 404 errors, work through each one and redirect it to an appropriate page.
404s usually happen when you change the url, or remove a page. Google has indexed those pages/urls and if they are no longer available Google will return a 404 error page. With redirection you can point the old page to a new, appropriate page with a 301 redirect.
Hope that helps.
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Hi David,
Read the Beginners Guide to SEO.
That will should answer 97% of your questions.
Then read the SEOMoz Help for 2% more.
And finally ask very specific questions here for the final 1%.
Good luck.
Mike
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Hi David! Welcome to Moz!
I usually start with fixing duplicate content issues. Once these are fixed it gives you a better perspective of where you actually stand because duplicate content issues can inflate the number of errors/warnings you see.
Best way to fix duplicate content issues is to make sure you have one URL for each piece of content and use rel=canonical tags if needed. It looks like you have WordPress with the Yoast plugin installed so that makes things a lot easier.
Hope this helps!
Zach
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