How do I address "Critical Factors: Accessible to Engines"?
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Hello,I am going thru the on-page report card produced by SEOMOZ and am stumped as to how to address the first critical factor. It looks like the correct meta tag to get search engines to index the site is at the bottom of the header. And as far as I know, which isn't much, the site returns the HTTP code 200 when I refresh.I am new at this, so please let me know if you have some specific solutions. I am using IWeb and the IWeb SEO Tool to make meta code improvements. I have pasted the head code for my website (www.grass2greens.com) below. Thanks in advance!<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="iWeb 3.0.4" name="Generator"><meta content="local-build-20120619" name="iWeb-Build"><meta content="IE=EmulateIE7" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"><meta content="width=880" name="viewport"><title>Grass to Greens: Asheville Edible Landscapingtitle><link href="Grass_to_Greens__Asheville_Edible_Landscaping_files/Grass_to_Greens__Asheville_Edible_Landscaping.css" media="screen,print" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"><style type="text/css"><script type="text/javascript" async="" src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js"><script type="text/javascript" async="" src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js"><script src="Scripts/iWebSite.js" type="text/javascript"><script src="Scripts/iWebImage.js" type="text/javascript"><script src="Scripts/iWebMediaGrid.js" type="text/javascript"><script src="Scripts/Widgets/SharedResources/WidgetCommon.js" type="text/javascript"><script src="Scripts/Widgets/HTMLRegion/Paste.js" type="text/javascript"><script src="Grass_to_Greens__Asheville_Edible_Landscaping_files/Grass_to_Greens__Asheville_Edible_Landscaping.js" type="text/javascript"><script type="text/javascript"><meta content="Grass to Greens offers a range of edible landscape design, consultation, installation, and maintenance services. Free Consultations! We specialize in beautiful and useful vegetable gardens, season extension, tree work, orchards and food forests, stone work, fencing, and rain water catchment. Grass to Greens is an edible landscaping company committed to creating food security and fostering social justice through urban agriculture in the Asheville area. " name="description"><meta content="Landscaping Asheville Edible Gardens" name="keywords"><meta content="follow,index" name="robots"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Grass_to_Greens__Asheville_Edible_Landscaping_files/Grass_to_Greens__Asheville_Edible_LandscapingMoz.css">head>
Grass to Greens: Asheville Edible Landscaping
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I'm not exactly sure about the SEOMoz error - but your site is doing a strange redirect when I load it up, going to this URL:
http://www.grass2greens.com/Grass_to_Greens__Asheville_Edible_Landscaping.html
It looks like you've setup a CNAME in your DNS settings to do that - which could potentially be confusing the SEOMoz crawler. Any reason in particular you set it up that way? Most people just set their homepage to be www.domain.com/ and have domain.com redirect to www.domain.com using an 301 redirect.
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