We had a major issue over the weekend. Our sitemap was being blocked
by a proxy server that caused a 404 error every time Google tried to
crawl us. Our site was never down but Google bot was getting 404
errors from when i tried to index from our .xml sitemap.
We have now fixed the error and our site is being indexed again but
our homepage has not been indexed and in the reporting it says that
the last time the homepage was accessed it gave a 404 error. Our
operations team set up an external computer that acted like the Google
Bot and was able to access the homepage so we don't know why it is not
being indexed.
How do i know if the 404 error is still occurring ? Is there anyway to
get our homepage crawled and indexed?
Out site's Tool bar Page Rank has stayed at 7/10 and our European
sites are still showing up in the index for our branded terms but not
our .com site. We actually are still ranking for all terms that
didn't direct traffic to our homepage. Is this some kind of penalty
for the 404 errors over the weekend?
Our site is a major ecommerce site that has been around for over 11
years without ever going down for extended periods of time we
shouldn't be penalize for 2 days of 404 errors.
> We had a major issue over the weekend. Our sitemap was being blocked
> by a proxy server that caused a 404 error every time Google tried to
> crawl us. Our site was never down but Google bot was getting 404
> errors from when i tried to index from our .xml sitemap.
> We have now fixed the error and our site is being indexed again but
> our homepage has not been indexed and in the reporting it says that
> the last time the homepage was accessed it gave a 404 error. Our
> operations team set up an external computer that acted like the Google
> Bot and was able to access the homepage so we don't know why it is not
> being indexed.
> How do i know if the 404 error is still occurring ? Is there anyway to
> get our homepage crawled and indexed?
> Out site's Tool bar Page Rank has stayed at 7/10 and our European
> sites are still showing up in the index for our branded terms but not
> our .com site. We actually are still ranking for all terms that
> didn't direct traffic to our homepage. Is this some kind of penalty
> for the 404 errors over the weekend?
> Our site is a major ecommerce site that has been around for over 11
> years without ever going down for extended periods of time we
> shouldn't be penalize for 2 days of 404 errors.
> We had a major issue over the weekend. Our sitemap was being blocked
> by a proxy server that caused a 404 error every time Google tried to
> crawl us. Our site was never down but Google bot was getting 404
> errors from when i tried to index from our .xml sitemap.
> We have now fixed the error and our site is being indexed again but
> our homepage has not been indexed and in the reporting it says that
> the last time the homepage was accessed it gave a 404 error. Our
> operations team set up an external computer that acted like the Google
> Bot and was able to access the homepage so we don't know why it is not
> being indexed.
> How do i know if the 404 error is still occurring ? Is there anyway to
> get our homepage crawled and indexed?
> Out site's Tool bar Page Rank has stayed at 7/10 and our European
> sites are still showing up in the index for our branded terms but not
> our .com site. We actually are still ranking for all terms that
> didn't direct traffic to our homepage. Is this some kind of penalty
> for the 404 errors over the weekend?
> Our site is a major ecommerce site that has been around for over 11
> years without ever going down for extended periods of time we
> shouldn't be penalize for 2 days of 404 errors.
Would it be duplicate content if our... AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr,
AbeBooks.it homepages are all showing in search results. It was
only .com homepage that isnt showing. But all the other euro sites
are in languages other than English.
Is there anyway to check forsure if it is duplicate content?
As AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr, AbeBooks.it are in German, French and
Italian (respectively!) it would not constitute duplicate content.
The meaning might be the same, but it is different content because it
is in a different language.
Man spricht Deutsch! On parle francais! We speak English! Habla
espanol! Parlo Italiano! Kein Problem! Pas de probleme! etc
A borderline issue might theoretically arise for SOME product pages
if the identical book was being offered with identical information
(ie. if the English language version of the book was being sold on
each of the different country-specific websites). I still think that
in the vast majority of cases there would be enough difference between
the EN, DE, FR, and IT pages so that "duplicate content" would still
not be an issue.
> Would it be duplicate content if our... AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr,
> AbeBooks.it homepages are all showing in search results. It was
> only .com homepage that isnt showing. But all the other euro sites
> are in languages other than English.
> Is there anyway to check forsure if it is duplicate content?
Also notice that you have got 302 temporary redirection from the non-
www version to the www-version ie
from: abebooks.co.uk/ to www.abebooks.co.uk/ and
from abebooks.com/ to www.abebooks.com/
The 302 temporary should be changed to 301 permanent redirection.
> Also notice that you have got 302 temporary redirection from the non-
> www version to the www-version ie
> from: abebooks.co.uk/ towww.abebooks.co.uk/ > and
> from abebooks.com towww.abebooks.com
> The 302 should be changed to 301 permanent redirection.
> Robbo
> On Jan 15, 6:35 pm, Robbo wrote:
> > As AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr, AbeBooks.it are in German, French and
> > Italian (respectively!) it would not constitute duplicate content.
> > The meaning might be the same, but it is different content because it
> > is in a different language.
> > Man spricht Deutsch! On parle francais! We speak English! Habla
> > espanol! Parlo Italiano! Kein Problem! Pas de probleme! etc
> > A borderline issue might theoretically arise for SOME product pages
> > if the identical book was being offered with identical information
> > (ie. if the English language version of the book was being sold on
> > each of the different country-specific websites). I still think that
> > in the vast majority of cases there would be enough difference between
> > the EN, DE, FR, and IT pages so that "duplicate content" would still
> > not be an issue.
> > Robbo
> > On Jan 15, 6:01 pm, ABE wrote:
> > > I greatly appreciate your help!
> > > Would it be duplicate content if our... AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr,
> > > AbeBooks.it homepages are all showing in search results. It was
> > > only .com homepage that isnt showing. But all the other euro sites
> > > are in languages other than English.
> > > Is there anyway to check forsure if it is duplicate content?
Thanks for the advice on the 301 over 302 i have passed it on and this
is being implemented but i don't think it is the cause for our problem
or the duplicate content either
I am fairly confident that the server that was blocking Google's
access to our site and giving Google a 404 for 2 whole days is the
problem. In Webmaster Tools it says the rest of my site is being
indexed but the exact error i get for the homepage is:
"We can't currently access your home page because of an HTTP error
(404).:"
There is nothing preventing people from accessing our homepage as far
as we can see and we tried from external locations and mimicked Google
bot as well.
Is there anything else that we can try?
Thanks again for all the help guys your time is greatly appreciated
> Thanks for the advice on the 301 over 302 i have passed it on and this
> is being implemented but i don't think it is the cause for our problem
> or the duplicate content either
> I am fairly confident that the server that was blocking Google's
> access to our site and giving Google a 404 for 2 whole days is the
> problem. In Webmaster Tools it says the rest of my site is being
> indexed but the exact error i get for the homepage is:
> "We can't currently access your home page because of an HTTP error
> (404).:"
> There is nothing preventing people from accessing our homepage as far
> as we can see and we tried from external locations and mimicked Google
> bot as well.
> Is there anything else that we can try?
> Thanks again for all the help guys your time is greatly appreciated
