[Pro] Google Crawl Error

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I’m getting a Google Crawl Error (see below). Clearly this is due to the Force Download action, but when I look at the page code I don’t see the link anywhere.

Can somebody help me track this down?

http://www.williamsburgmemorialpark.com/about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlk.php

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Clearly this is due to the Force Download action

It may be clear to you - how do you arrive at this conclusion?

Where on your site does this link appear - the force download you refer to?

David

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OK - I have tracked this down

Your download link is williamsburgmemorialpark.com/about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dl.php

but the crawl error is from williamsburgmemorialpark.com/about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlk.php

I suspect that this has been caused by previous incarnations of the action creating links like

about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dla.php, about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlb.php, about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlc.php etc.

When your site is recrawled this error should disappear as the correct link will be found.

In the meantime you could use a 301 redirect from about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlk.php to about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dl.php

Did you do a File>Publish everything as some point to clear out old stuff?

D

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I thought I did, but I’ll try it again. The weird ting is I can’t find that code anywhere when using Safari’s developer tools.

On 7 Oct 2012, 10:33 pm, DeltaDave wrote:

OK - I have tracked this down

Your download link is williamsburgmemorialpark.com/about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dl.php

but the crawl error is from williamsburgmemorialpark.com/about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlk.php

I suspect that this has been caused by previous incarnations of the action creating links like

about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dla.php, about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlb.php, about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlc.php etc.

When your site is recrawled this error should disappear as the correct link will be found.

In the meantime you could use a 301 redirect from about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dlk.php to about/Williamsburg_Memorial_Park_Map-dl.php

Did you do a File>Publish everything as some point to clear out old stuff?

D

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The weird ting is I can’t find that code anywhere when using Safari’s developer tools.

It may not exist any more.

D

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Google just crawled one of my websites again yesterday and it found another 404 error. Here’s the offending page:

http://www.williamsburgmemorialpark.com/extras/wmp_rules-dlj.php

Once again, I cannot find this code anywhere in the page code, which is located here. http://www.williamsburgmemorialpark.com/extras/rules.html or the Force Download action code:

<?php
/*

****************************************************************
* Force Download (PHP) action for Freeway
* version 1.0
****************************************************************
* Upload your site to a PHP enabled server to run this script
****************************************************************

*/


$filename = "wmp_rules.pdf";

if(ini_get('zlib.output_compression'))
  ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off');

$file_extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($filename,"."),1));

if( $filename == ""){
  header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
  header ("Location: ".getenv('HTTP_REFERER') );
  exit;

} elseif ( ! file_exists( $filename ) ) {
  
  header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
  header ("Location: ".getenv('HTTP_REFERER') );
  exit;
  
};

if ($file_extension == "php" || $file_extension == "php3"){
	exit;
}

switch( $file_extension )
{
  case "pdf": $ctype="application/pdf"; break;
  case "exe": $ctype="application/octet-stream"; break;
  case "zip": $ctype="application/zip"; break;
  case "doc": $ctype="application/msword"; break;
  case "xls": $ctype="application/vnd.ms-excel"; break;
  case "ppt": $ctype="application/vnd.ms-powerpoint"; break;
  case "gif": $ctype="image/gif"; break;
  case "png": $ctype="image/png"; break;
  case "jpeg":
  case "jpg": $ctype="image/jpg"; break;
  default: $ctype="application/force-download";
}
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false); 
header("Content-Type: $ctype");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="".basename($filename)."";" );
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filename));
readfile("$filename");
exit();
?>

These errors definitely have something to do with the Force Download action, but I don’t know how to fix them.

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My answer remains the same - the link may not exist any more.

You are going to have to talk to Tim about this one.

D

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Dave is correct. The dead link you’ve found in Google’s search was picked up when the site was last crawled. If you can’t wait for Google to crawl the site again I’d suggest adding a htaccess file with a 301 redirect so that the link is at least picked up and followed on your site.
Regards,
Tim.

On 11 Oct 2012, at 21:46, RavenManiac wrote:

Once again, I cannot find this code anywhere in the page code, which is located here. http://www.williamsburgmemorialpark.com/extras/rules.html or the Force Download action code:

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Okay, I’ll keep an eye on it. Thanks guys.

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