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Any Web master tools experts know the answer to this one?

by oliverjones
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i have a forum with 4k members and a shed load of posts. My problem is the poor SEO. I mean really really poor.

I am lucky enough to have a big page (1mill) Facebook so this is currently how the site is fueled with traffic.

I want to work out why my Google traffic is so poor.

In my WMT I am seeing a lot of soft crawl errors and these are increasing every day.

When I clicked on one of the errors and clicked fetch as google, it came up with the attached info.

Why is it searching for 3 versions of the page and why do 2 of these have the wrong URL?
#answer #experts #master #tools #web
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    The last two URLs don't make any sense, example:

    Code:
    http://domain.com/http://domain/article-here/
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    • Profile picture of the author oliverjones
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      The last two URLs don't make any sense, example:

      Code:
      http://domain.com/http://domain/article-here/
      Yeah I know so why is WMT trying to search for them? Where is it getting those URLS from?
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  • Profile picture of the author SEODollz
    From people (or bots) typing in the wrong URL. It's almost impossible to plan for every 404 possibility. I would venture a guess that this is not your biggest pressing issue.
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    • Profile picture of the author oliverjones
      Originally Posted by SEODollz View Post

      From people (or bots) typing in the wrong URL. It's almost impossible to plan for every 404 possibility. I would venture a guess that this is not your biggest pressing issue.
      But there are like 65 errors all the same. What else could the reason be for my crap search traffic?
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  • Profile picture of the author SEODollz
    You could have a broken link somewhere, you should get your site crawled. I like Xenu bt screaming frog is pretty good too
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Ash
    You have duplicate pages/urls like:
    "http://www.relationshipsurgery.com"
    is the same as...
    "http://www.relationshipsurgery.com/group/all" (this is the link attached to your logo which is sitewide)

    You have too many ad units on your content pages which PANDA does not like (search Google Panda update)

    A great deal of your content isn't indexed which shows the site lacks authority/trust or the internal structure is a nightmare and your site can't be crawled properly as a result.

    There are many problems which will require an SEO professional to diagnose and resolve.
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