Re: Problems with Google Webmasters Crawl Errors

It seems like Google NEVER removes crawl errors.
I have pages that had an error several years ago andit is stil showing up as
having an error:(

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----- Original Message -----
From: <sean.infrared@gmail.com>
To: "Google Search Engine Optimization SEO Google - MSN - Yahoo"
<seo1@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 16:40
Subject: Problems with Google Webmasters Crawl Errors

>
> Hi everyone, new to the group, thanks for having me :D
>
> I'm getting some strange behavior from the Google Webmaster Tools
> Crawl Errors and I was hoping someone can help me out.
>
> Google is reporting many 404 errors for my site for pages that don't
> exist anymore due to site structure changes. About 6 months ago, I
> changed from html to php and also changed the naming convention to use
> "-" instead of "_" word separator. The structure changed drastically
> enough that I could not simply use htaccess for rewrite rules. So I
> did some research and people said that after a while of reading 404
> errors, google would drop the pages. Well, here we are 6 months later,
> google keeps re-indexing the bad pages!
>
> Here's one specific example:
>
> Bad page:
> http://infrared.com/applications/preventative_maintenance.html (has
> not existed since about 04/30/09
>
> Pages that link to
> http://infrared.com/applications/preventative_maintenance.html
> :
> URL Discovery Date
> http://www.infrared.org/applications/preventative_maintenance.html
> Sep 23, 2009
> http://infrared.com/ Jan 15, 2009
>
> The strange thing here is that
> http://www.infrared.org/applications/preventative_maintenance.html
> HAS NEVER had a link to
> http://infrared.com/applications/preventative_maintenance.html
>
> Whats more is that http://infrared.com/ has been re-indexed several
> times and still this error shows.
>
> I have also used googles manual link removal tool on this link, it
> said "removed" but it still shows up in crawl errors...
>
> Other strange Errors: This one was just discovered 6 days ago
>
> Bad page listed in crawl errors (returns 404 header):
> http://infrared.com/index.htm
>
> Pages that link to http://infrared.com/index.htm:
> URL Discovery Date
> http://twitter.com/infraredinc Oct 2, 2009 <-- link to
> http://infrared.com/index.htm is NOT on this page!
> http://twitter.com/InfraredInc Jun 20, 2009 <-- link to
> http://infrared.com/index.htm is NOT on this page!
> http://www.infrared.com/ Oct 16, 2009 <-- link to
> http://infrared.com/index.htm
> is NOT on this page!
> http://j.yofsarseo.com/km Aug 17, 2008 <-- returns server not found
> http://infrared.com/site_map.htm Nov 19, 2006 <--This page DOES NOT
> EXIST! Returns 404 header
>
> I know these pages are returning proper headers from the header addon
> for firefox.. but just to show you i've pasted in one of the results.
>
> http://infrared.com/site_map.htm
>
> GET /site_map.htm HTTP/1.1
> Host: infrared.com
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:
> 1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/
> *;q=0.8
> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> Keep-Alive: 300
> Connection: keep-alive
> Cookie: __utma=25287781.185060607.1256079877.1256591154.1256594959.7;
> __utmz=25287781.1256079877.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=
> (none); __utmb=25287781.7.10.1256594959; __utmc=25287781
>
> HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:38:00 GMT
> Server: Apache
> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Content-Type: text/html
>
>
> Please help! I think my site is being heavily penalized by these "bad
> links"
>
> >

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