Google Crawling Errors
 

Hello Everyone,

I was just looking into my google webmaster tools account and noticed that i have more then 1000 crawl errors and what i have noticed is that crawlers are indexing wrong spots. I hope i am clear enough to present my issue.

Its something like this.

Google is crawling : http://www.xxxxyyyyzzzz.com/forum/showthread.php?564-A-Book[/URL]

[/URL] whereas it should crawl for : http://www.xxxxyyyyzzzz.com/showthread.php?564-A-Book[/URL]

[/URL] Now i am sure this is affecting my site somehow. Am i right or wrong ? Can anyone tell me how to make google not to search for "forum" directory that doesn't even exist ?????

Thanks in advance.

Can anyone help me on this one please ???
Thanks in advance.

Did your site used to be at site.com/forum?

I can't really recall and even if it was the case may be it was only for a week or so and once i figured out i changed it to just site.com.

IN your .htaccess; you should add a 301 redirect from /forum/* to /*

Hi Alfa1,
thanks for ur response i have never done that before can u tell me how to to the redirect and also i have another question when we upgrade our forums does this file .htaccess upgrades as well or we have to do it manually from somewhere else ???

Thanks in advance.

Download your .htaccess file. Open it with notepad or textpad (if you have that)
Add this line:
Redirect 301 /forum/* http://www.yoursite.com/*

Replace 'yoursite.com' with your url.

The file will remain when you upgrade.