Google Crawling Errors

[K!nG]

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.

[K!nG]

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

[Lynne]

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

[K!nG]

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.

[Alfa1]

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

[K!nG]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

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.

[Alfa1]

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.