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1. Len
   Member

   I went live with a site on Friday (13 Mar), everything is working well except Googles webmaster tool is reporting an error from my sitemap, 4 (of 7) of the URL's are returning a 404. I can't see anything different in the 3 that are getting crawled. I can surf to them just fine and even click the error link in googles report and no proplems. The sites had about 350 hits over the weekend and no problems with visitors either. But I need to have it corrected so Google will index them properly.
   (if I try to add a test in crazyegg.com it returns the same 404 for all but the home page, so it's not just google)

   Any ideas? I started an email support ticket, but would like to get this figured out sooner rather than later.

   Related URLs
   http://www.silvertreeconstruction.com/

   404 returned to Google
   http://www.silvertreeconstruction.com/estimate.php
   http://www.silvertreeconstruction.com/wow-kitchens.php
   http://www.silvertreeconstruction.com/about-silvertree.php
   http://www.silvertreeconstruction.com/contractor-testimonials.php

   Sitemap
   http://www.silvertreeconstruction.com/sitemap.xml

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Sean
   Founding Member

   Probably GoDaddy hosting was having a split second of downtime right when Googlebot was crawling your site and those pages were infact 404.

   Since the pages are in place and working now, I'd say give Googlebot a few days to come back and crawl your site again and it should just work itself out in your webmaster tools control panel.

   Also, I did notice your sitemap isn't totally formatted correctly. It's missing the Change Frequency for each page. Just a heads up you want to fix that.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. Neuen
   Administrator

   Sean is right, give it a few days and let us know what happens. Now, as for the sitemap, I'd use Christopher's Google Sitemap Generator. It works like a charm.

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. Len
   Member

   Probably GoDaddy hosting was having a split second of downtime right when Googlebot was crawling your site and those pages were infact 404.

   That's what I'm hoping but with the crazyegg giving me the same type of error, I'm wondering if there isn't something else going on.

   Thanks for noticing the sitemap too.

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. Len
   Member

   Thanks for the sitemap link I usually use http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ but it's not finding the links right. It only finds ....com and ....com/index.php and everything in the blog (articles) directory, but not the other 5 pages in the site. I think this is a symptom of what is going on with google The link you sent me worked though it was able to generate a sitemap with all the correct pages.

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. Len
   Member

   Update: still not resolved.
   Crazyegg said they are getting 404 from a command to the server, GoDaddy says it's not us, since your visitors can access the site.
   I found this site http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp which tests and returns the same 404 message.

   I have this at the top of the pages. It gets the Wordpress blog-header so I can include parts into the otherwise static pages.
   <?php
// Include Wordpress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('articles/wp-blog-header.php');
query_posts('showposts=3');
?>

   When I remove it the pages return OK. But this doesn't explain why the index.php always returns Ok even though it includes the identical code, Or why index and and /remodeling-photos.php return OK from Google but not the others.

   Any ideas? I would like to keep the Wordpress inclusion script if possible. But I can't have Google not indexing the pages.

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. Sean
   Founding Member

   @Len: it hasn't even been 24 hours since I made the suggestion to "give Googlebot a few days to come back and crawl your site again".

   I do a lot of WordPress development and use the same code you have on a lot of sites without issues in Google Webmaster tools.

   I can check into things more for you, so contact me off forum and I'll give you some specialized help. Use the email contact link on my profile page:

   /profile/?user=Sean

   Standing by for your message.

   Posted 2 years ago #

8. Len
   Member

   Thanks, message sent.

   Posted 2 years ago #

9. Sean
   Founding Member

   @Len: I got your message. Thanks. I'll be looking over a couple things and replying back to your email in the AM (around 8:00 am), so about 8-10 hours from now as I'm heading to bed (9:51 pm here).

   Posted 2 years ago #

10. Len
    Member

    Anybody else have any experience with this?

    Posted 2 years ago #

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