ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:17:10 +0000 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:43:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4338 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : Fantastic information! That sounds...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17794.html#17794 Author: Rick_N
Subject: 4338
Posted: 15-June-2011 at 7:43pm

Fantastic information! That sounds like a great route to start from. I'll hunt down external links from other sites and see what is going on. In the meantime I'll fire up IIS and do the rewrites as you mentioned. Thanks for going the extra mile and providing the string.
Thanks again for your valuable input and time.
]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:43:47 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17794.html#17794 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : Our webmaster tools reported broken...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17793.html#17793 Author: whizzinpc
Subject: 4338
Posted: 15-June-2011 at 7:24pm

Our webmaster tools reported broken links that we couldn't find anywhere... I later found out those links are coming from other sites that are linking to us...the problem i think is that googlebot keeps on trying to browse the site with the broken url. The absolute URL's are obviously going to work..... but the relative URL's will continue to be broken.
That's my theory. Do a google search to see if you can find if a site that has an incorrect link to you. We've fixed these using isapi to redirect the original broken link to a fixed one. An example is... a link would come in missing part of the url... in your case its missing the lingerie part 
http://www.eveningsecrets.com/pc/Brazilian-Bikini-4p1732.ht
if your links are relative...then it will never put the lingerie back... you need to use ISAPI to automatically add the lingerie back to the url. This is how we corrected the issue. Here is what our code looks like. This is with Rewrite v2. Not sure if it works on the latest version. Basically we are redirecting any url that is completely missing /productcart/pc/, only missing /productcart/ or only missing /pc/ to the correct structure.

RewriteRule /([^./]+\.htm) http://www.abc.com/productcart/pc/$1 [I,RP] 
RewriteRule /productcart/([^./]+)\.htm http\://www.abc.com/productcart/pc/$1.htm [I,RP]
RewriteRule /pc/([^./]+)\.htm http\://www.abc.com/productcart/pc/$1.htm [I,RP]


]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:24:59 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17793.html#17793 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : Hi and thanks for the quick response. I...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17792.html#17792 Author: Rick_N
Subject: 4338
Posted: 15-June-2011 at 6:49pm

Hi and thanks for the quick response.
I have gone through every single page twice to find any offending links. I cannot find anything.
The includes folder is correct and the sitemap.xml generates perfect links, as does all the other navigation links.
This is an image from my header file
 
 
So if you look at the image in my prior post, any link that I have hardcoded in the file shows correct. The images, where I only reference the image directory where the file is located, ie images/mcard.gif shows up as a bad link in the image in the prior post.
 
Not sure what else you can think of but thanks again!
]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:49:16 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17792.html#17792 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : You must have those links somewhere....]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17791.html#17791 Author: ProductCart
Subject: 4338
Posted: 15-June-2011 at 6:39pm

You must have those links somewhere. Do you have any page that is outside of the "lingerie/pc/" folder? If so, that's probably the issue.

Otherwise: are you submitting a sitemap? Review the URLs included in the sitemap. If there is an issue, make sure that the code has not been altered, and that the "includes/productcartfolder.asp" file includes the correct folder name.]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:39:11 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17791.html#17791 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : OK, just had to rehash this one...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17790.html#17790 Author: Rick_N
Subject: 4338
Posted: 15-June-2011 at 6:34pm

OK, just had to rehash this one more time. I finally got around to checking out what is gong on. It appears that any full URL, an absolute link, that I have in my pages shows corrrectly. If I use a relative link, such as in my header file for images, the link shows up bad. Does not associate the directories above it.
 
Has this to do with Parent Paths Enabled or Disabled? The server I am on has parent paths enabled and of course all the files I have for PC are PPE files. I attached another two images of some of the files that show as broken links.
 
 
 
 
Thanks in advance for any information.
 
 
]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:34:49 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17790.html#17790 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : Hi Rick,You&#039;re welcome, sorry...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17456.html#17456 Author: TangoHosting
Subject: 4338
Posted: 08-May-2011 at 4:19pm

Hi Rick,

You're welcome, sorry we weren't able to point you to the solution.

Good luck


]]> Sun, 08 May 2011 16:19:59 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17456.html#17456 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : Hi TH, no I didn&#039;t think...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17455.html#17455 Author: Rick_N
Subject: 4338
Posted: 08-May-2011 at 4:12pm

Hi TH,
no I didn't think it had anything to do with with the PC code, but was hoping this may have been obvious to someone. Everything was fine before I migrated over to a new server. I checked to make sure I was returning a 404 status code and everything appears to be setup as per the SEO instructions(PC WIKI).
 
I'll keep hunting for the file(s) and if I ever figure it out I'll let you know.
 
Thanks again for the help.
]]> Sun, 08 May 2011 16:12:44 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17455.html#17455 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : Rick_N wrote:I found...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17451.html#17451 Author: TangoHosting
Subject: 4338
Posted: 07-May-2011 at 5:35pm

Originally posted by Rick_N Rick_N wrote:

I found one file in my root folder called index.html, which is not used. There was a link in there as follows:
Is it possible the bot crawled this link and continued through creating the links without the scPcFolder? It's the only thing left I can think of. I removed the page altogether and I guess I'll have to wait and see.


Hello Rick,

It seem very unlikely that google WMT would create and attempt to crawl links that do not exist. I'm pretty sure that there is a file or files that are/were referencing the non-existent URLs in your web site.

Bottom-line: The issue is not related to the default ProductCart system code. You may find further assistance through the google webmaster tools group:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Tools/topics

Thank you


Edited by TangoHosting - 07-May-2011 at 5:46pm]]> Sat, 07 May 2011 17:35:14 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17451.html#17451 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : I found one file in my root folder...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17450.html#17450 Author: Rick_N
Subject: 4338
Posted: 07-May-2011 at 4:38pm

I found one file in my root folder called index.html, which is not used. There was a link in there as follows:
http://www.eveningsecrets.com/pc/default.asp
Is it possible the bot crawled this link and continued through creating the links without the scPcFolder? It's the only thing left I can think of. I removed the page altogether and I guess I'll have to wait and see.
]]> Sat, 07 May 2011 16:38:35 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17450.html#17450 <![CDATA[Google Crawl Errors Relating to SEO URL rewrite? : TangoHosting wrote:Hello Rick,You&#039;re...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/google-crawl-errors-relating-to-seo-url-rewrite_topic4338_post17449.html#17449 Author: Rick_N
Subject: 4338
Posted: 07-May-2011 at 10:13am

Originally posted by TangoHosting TangoHosting wrote:

Hello Rick,

You're right. Did you create sitemaps or back door pages with the 404 error links?
 
Thanks again for the help folks!
I'm not sure I understand what you mean with that. I have not not done anything with the error links...they are just there Confused
 
If I check the link as mentioned in google I come up with no pages found; ie link:http://www.eveningsecrets.com/pc/Brazilian-Bikini-4p1732.htm
which is a page that one of the errors are linked from.
 
I have checked all my internal links that would relate to the product list and do not see anything odd. The storemap has all the correct links as well. I'll go through the site again, but it appears the link is being generated somewhere, as any of the pages that link to the offending URL's do not exist on my site.
 
Thanks.
Rick
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