| All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/9/12 8:49 AM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YesMy site's URL (web address) is: http://monopolydealrules.com I have studied the Help Center, read the FAQs and searched for similar questions. In GWT I show no crawl errors, no errors/issues with my s |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/9/12 9:09 AM | BTW - I will be changing the description and info for each of these other pages but that shouldn't be effecting the cached pages right.... |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | cristina | 4/9/12 9:55 AM | I think you need to improve a bit your robots.txt file.You have a line allow:/Change that to Allow: / And make the sitemap URL absolute in the Sitemap line. |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/9/12 10:03 AM | Thanks Christina! I updated the robots.txt. Is the fact that it wasn't an absolute address or that "allow" wasn't capitalized that caused this? |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | cristina | 4/9/12 10:48 AM | I do not know why those pages are not cached.Keep an eye on Google Webmaster Tools, for example at the list of keywords (words that Googlebot sees in your site), do some Fetch as Googlebot and look at the HTML source code as seen by Googlebot,, look |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/9/12 3:59 PM | Ok - Just re-edited the robots.txt file. All my keywords are showing up great, I can fetch all the pages with no issues, no crawl errors, no suggested HTML, and I double checked the HTML as seen by Googlebot. I'll wait to see how the pages look aft |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | webado | 4/9/12 4:44 PM | How old is the site? All the pages have the same title and description snippet. You need to do better than that. |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/14/12 9:42 AM | Hi Webado - The site isn't old. I had realized back when this started that all the pages were using the same title and description snippets. Unfortunately I was trying out a new template approach to building the site and it's pages and made a mist |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | webado | 4/14/12 9:53 AM | My comment was exactly that: you need to have unique titles and description snippets for all pages. I based it on what I found indexed 5 days ago when I posted.If you've changed that since then, great, one less issue to have to deal with. |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/14/12 10:39 AM | The comment I'm referring to didn't say anything about the titles and descriptions. You could easily have posted without including the comment "You need to do better than that." I appreciate all the help I can get and hopefully there will be a day |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | webado | 4/14/12 11:01 AM | I posted 5 days ago on April 9 - it is now April 14. Regardless of that, you only mentioned: |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/14/12 12:19 PM | Wabedo - It's not about things being sugar-coated - it's about including comments that don't help and are geared towards the person and not the topic. You could have added a lot of comments and just because you included one that was bad but not as |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | webado | 4/14/12 12:43 PM | However my reply stands considering what was on the site at the time. Yes, I indeed meant YOU, the site owner, could do a lot better. That was and is my opinion, like it or not. My overall recommendation of merging the sites stands as well. Only af |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | Mrfrostie | 4/15/12 6:30 AM | Ha In the end of the day duplicate meta data wouldn't cause a 404 page not found message which is what my question was. The fact the sites aren't merged has nothing to do with this or the other issues I'm running into. My other site is performing e |
| Re: All Cached Pages except for home page show 404 Page Not Found Error | webado | 4/15/12 7:53 AM | It's webcache links that showed 404, not pages from the site. This is just something that happens for newer sites where the cache is not yet available in all datacenters. Not a matter for worry. It's very, very common. Right now all the cache links w |