Telephone numbers on page getting classed as 404s by SEOMoz
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Hi there,
I have a number of clients who have their telephone numbers on their sites (understandably of course!) and SEOmoz is classing them as links and therefore a 404 in the crawl software.
The protocol is added in the code so if viewing the page on a mobile you can call the client.
Should I be doing anything else? Webmaster does not pick these up as 404s so I am wondering if this is an SEOmoz bug or that I should be adding a no-follow?
Thanks
jT
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Hey Gentleman,
I'm sorry your running into this issue with your crawls. :[
We would definitely love to look into this for you guys, but it's a little difficult for us to do that through the Q&A forum. If you write in to [email protected] with your campaign information, like SEO Consult suggested :], we can look into this issue and work on getting a fix for you.
We look forward to hearing from you both at the help desk.
Chiaryn Miranda
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The phone number obviously shouldn't be seen as a link if it's not a link. Shoot [email protected] an email explaining the issue. The SEOmoz gang are awesome at replying so you'll be sure to hear back soon!
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Having the same problem here! At first it counted each page as duplicate content, then 404's. I took the code off until further clarification.
One thing to note, iPhone and any newer Android will detect a phone number and should automatically make it a clickable link.
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