Googlebot can't access your site

[DreadsUK]

Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 67 errors while attempting to connect to your site. Your site's overall connection failure rate is 7.1%.

Any ideas what might be causing this?
www.dreadsuk.com



Is this something i could fix with a mod like creating a 404 error page redirect or something?

[Disco_Dave]

Do you have to register to your forum before you can read this threads?

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by Disco_Dave

Do you have to register to your forum before you can read this threads?

no, its all open accept a couple of areas that need minimum posts

[Disco_Dave]

LOL That's my idea out the window....

[DreadsUK]

one thing i have done recently if followed the steps on this thread to speed up the site
http://ozzmodz.com/showthread.php/25...Within-The-ACP

[RichieBoy67]

When you click those link do you get 404 errors or do you still go through to the link?

Having some not founds is normal really especially is you have a large site. Google also still sees redirects as not found pages. In other words you may visit a link in the not found list and get to it fine but it will show in webmaster tools as not found.

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I do not see anything in Ozzy's thread that should impact this at all.

[DreadsUK]

Looks like most of them are from when we were running vB5. The downgrade to VB4 means the URL's have changed. Its been like this since January which hasn';t been a problem till now.

[RichieBoy67]

I would not worry about it. It is not many and most of those are probably re-indexed with the correct urls anyways.

If there are important ones though that you want to make sure work just do a 301 redirect

Redirect 301 /forum/kjhfwbfwbhf.php fulnewurl