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How long does it take for search engines and crawlers to stop looking for old pages? It's been 18 months since moving to BV and I'm still getting my Event Log filled daily with invalid searches for my old SF pages. It really makes the Event Log almost useless. |
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You have ISAPI on your dedi? |
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Joe, agreed. Mine's clogged.
In my SmartStats utility, /accessories.aspx is the 2nd most used entry page - it doesn't exist on my site! Makes you wonder what other info isn't correct. |
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Hey mitch, http://www.missionfurnishings.com/accessories.aspx It's getting hit from somewhere, I'd consider populating this page since it's getting hit so much, or redirect them to your homepage. Check your Custom URL's section > Content -> Custom URLs. You may have created a category or a custom page somewhere along the line during your site build and simply forgot about it? |
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Mat, a big thanks and a Merry Christmas. I found THIRTEEN custom URL's sitting there.
I hired a fellow (no names) to migrate some stuff from my previous store and set up the basics.... must've set up a bunch of stuff for -???? Testing????
They've been deleted. I didn't know they were there.
Thanks again. |
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Since some of them showed up in the event log, someone (or something) was requesting those pages. How did they (or it) find out about them? Are there links in some of the product pages to the custom URLs? Or did a search engine find them through a site map? |
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Likely a site map. Next on my list of stuff to do. 'sit ever end? |
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Mitch, drop a quick a note to Resposio. Let them get you set up with an Isapi redirect. Those pages are currently indexed somewhere in various engines and they may not be cleaned up from their indexes for some time.
If it's drawing traffic, you're losing this benefit now that the pages are deleted. The redirect will at least redirect traffic to your homepage (or other page that you can specify) as well as allow you to correctly post a 301 (Permanent Redirect a.k.a Moved Permanently) status to engines to allow them to correctly index your website. |
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I don't know that they are drawing traffic -- at least mine -- and they do get redirected -- but they are all crawlers anyway, so it doesn't matter where they end up. They're just obviously sitting in an index/database somewhere that these crawlers keep trying to verify. I don't think it matters to the store operation, it just makes the event log useless -- what otherwise would be a great feature. It needs a filter feature.
Andy -- to your point. These are pages like one I saw today ...ssl/confirm.aspx -- which was the old another ecommerce product confirmation page. Now, no customer should have that stored on their favorites, I don't think, so it was obviously indexed somewhere, sometime. |
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