Help! Is rel cononical impacting me?
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Hi there. My personal site www.adamlewis.info has higher Domain Authority and Moz rank and more linking domains than the top ranking site for my name "Adam Lewis" My landing page /adam-lewis has an A Grade. Yet I am still on page 2 behind what appear to be weaker domains.
The on-site report says I am not making appropriate use of Rel Cononical. This is a bit techy for me. Can anyone explain how this might or might not be affecting my ranking for "adam lewis"?
Thanks guys!
Adam
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Thanks Peter. I will investigate - very clear answer - thanks.
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I'm not seeing any issues with your canonical tags - the implementation with the All-In-One SEO Pack seems ok. We may be spitting out a warning because your home-page is at the "/wp" folder level and not at the root. That's not always a great idea, but it shouldn't cause major problems here. Fixing it does require some technical expertise.
Like Alan, though, I'm getting some connection issues. I can get to the pages, but there are serious latency issues. This could definitely be causing you some ranking problems. That's not something our tools directly measure at this point.
I notice you're embedding a font that's over 400KB and have some very large images. I have a feeling you've also got some hosting issues, but the size of the template isn't helping, either.
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Hi Alan - thanks for trying. It is the CDN I started using. Seems to be problematic. Generally gets up again quickly.
Adam
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This is what i was getting
Website Offline, No Cached Version Available
The website you are trying to access is currently offline. The most likely causes are the server is down for maintenance, there may be a network problem, or the site may be experiencing excessive load.
The site uses CloudFlare in order to help keep it online when the server is down by serving cached copies of pages where they are available. Unfortunately, a cached copy of the page you requested is not available, but you may be able to reach other cached pages on the site.
If you continue to receive this error after you believe the site is back online, you can retry a live version of the site
I will try again, still the same
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Hi Alan. Seems to work for me: www.adamlewis.info.
Adam
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Your site is down, cant crawl.
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