Should I care about this Webmaster Tools Message
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Here is the message:
"Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site: http://www.uncommongoods.com/"
Should i try to do anything about this? We are not having any indexation issues so we think Google is still crawling our whole site. What could be some possible repercussions of ignoring this?
Thanks Mozzers!
-Zack
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Hi Zack,
Just checking in to see if you had run any other tests to determine why this message might have appeared (e.g. a site crawl to find duplication / bad canonicalisation, etc.)? Let me know if you still need assistance.
Cheers,
Jane
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Also agree with David, but it wold not hurt to ensure that your XML sitemaps are up-to-date and an accurate reflection of your site's content. It also does not hurt to clean up any potential duplicate URL issues that your site may have. Otherwise you do not need to put a lot of weight into this message from GWT.
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David is spot on aobut the titles and urls. Large DB driven sites tend to cause big issues off of simple mistakes in coding or content entry.
I have to say "Crawl it" again.
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Since it is an ecommerce store with a lot of products, its natural for you to have a lot of URLs. As long as your content, titles, and urls are unique, I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to it.
Did a site search, and it came up with "About 181,000 results" that were indexed. If you know that number to be excessive, I would begin checking to see if you have cms generated URLs, that may be causing such a high page count.
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I would crawl the site and look for and spider traps or potential duplicate content. I make it a point to do so every time I see one of these notices and I have found things after these notices that could potentially or havecontributed to a Panda filter.
Although I do recommend at least weekly crawls on larger sites, these notices area good prompt to do it if you have been lax on your audits.
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If Google sends you a message, I'd listen.
Generally, these messages comes when you don't have something set correctly in your parameters. Have you set canonicals for your items?
Here are some resources to go through.
From Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76401?hl=en
A Good Product Forum Discussion: https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/CCORJBI-mEg
A Good Product Forum Discussion that has John Mueller (works for Google) on it: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/1aTAjsRbIOU
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