Google Site Diagnostics Help needed!

[mis_chiff]

(Hopefully this is the right section)

When Google crawls your sites, sometimes
there is info under "Site Diagnostics"
it looks a little like this:

http:// www. xxxxxx. com/ business/ -l11016. html Not Found Sep 2, 2008
http:// www. xxxxxx. com/ view-listing. php? id= 351 Not Found Sep 1, 2008

How, where...do I find the info to fix this?
I've searched the sites in question, and can't
seem to locate anything that resembles the diagnostics.

Where would that info be coming from,
if there is no "links" or "listings" with the stated info?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

 

[enlytend]

A few questions:

1) Is your site indexed in Google? (do a google search for site:yoursitename.com)

2) Was the site previously parked? If so, where?

3) Have you been able to verify the site with Google?

4) Look at what webmaster tools shows for robots.txt - does that match what you're using on your site?

It looks like it's trying to crawl pages that don't exist, and the "view listing" suggests a parking page. Like it's cached a copy and refuses to acknowledge your new content. I've seen that before, though it may not be what's going on in this case.

 

[angilina]

I encounter such problems all the time. I see links that are not in my site. So I simply 301 redirect the links to home or appropriate pages. This solves the problem for me.

 

[shockie]

my guess would be that someone somewhere has tried to link to these non-existent pages of your website (possible old links). the best thing to do would be to redirect these to similar/relevant pages that do exist on your site, return a 404 page not found error, or redirect to your homepage.

 

[mis_chiff]

A few questions:
1) Is your site indexed in Google? (do a google search for site:yoursitename.com)

yes, the site is indexed.

2) Was the site previously parked? If so, where?

No, it's never been parked, it's 2 years old. (always been a directory)

3) Have you been able to verify the site with Google?

Yes, the site has been verified.

4) Look at what webmaster tools shows for robots.txt - does that match what you're using on your site?

Where would I check that?

It looks like it's trying to crawl pages that don't exist, and the "view listing" suggests a parking page. Like it's cached a copy and refuses to acknowledge your new content. I've seen that before, though it may not be what's going on in this case.

Is there a way to clear that cache? Or does it sort itself out?

Thanks for your help

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my guess would be that someone somewhere has tried to link to these non-existent pages of your website (possible old links). the best thing to do would be to redirect these to similar/relevant pages that do exist on your site, return a 404 page not found error, or redirect to your homepage.

How do they do that? and how can I stop it?
Thanks

 

[shockie]

1a) to check your robots.txt in webmaster tools: click "tools" on the left -> click "analyze robots.txt"

1b) ooo. also under the "tools" section is a "remove urls" section. you should go there and request removals of those non-existent pages (urls) of your site that are getting linked to.

2) the cache should sort itself out in that google will get a new cache of your site at some point.

3) you can't really stop other people from linking to you, but if those pages don't exist anyway they shouldn't be showing up in search engine result pages. this whole "urls not found' thing is only an issue if there's supposed to be pages there or if you're linking to your own pages incorrectly. from the sounds of it though, this is an outside issue that doesn't really affect you.

 

[Keral_Patel]

http:// www. xxxxxx. com/ business/ -l11016. html Not Found Sep 2, 2008
http:// www. xxxxxx. com/ view-listing. php? id= 351 Not Found Sep 1, 2008

Just click on those links and if you don't find a 404 then forget it. Sometimes when server doesn't responds it tends to do this.

If you do find a 404 then just try to make a good 404 landing page for your site.

 

[mis_chiff]

Thanks for the help
I've looked through the site for any reference
to these links just in case I had part of it in there
somewhere, and I can't find anything specific.

Could it be where someone has tried to
submit a Deeplink (which I would have refused)
but they have linked to it anyway?
Is this a way in for hackers?

As long as it's nothing bad, I won't worry.
I just want to make sure