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1. Crawl errors unravelled by Google

   Kabila on August 24th, 2009

   Tags: Crawl errors, Crawl errors section, Google Webmaster tool, high page ranks

   It is with experience that we have learnt that its extremely important for your site to have very high page ranks in search engines as this is one of the best ways to increase traffic on to your website. Once your site has secured a high page rank you can be assured of dozens of visitors going through your website everyday and this will directly generate an increase in your revenue. Now how you ensure a high page rank is the question.

   One of the major hitches your site can suffer while going through Google’s search engine is the presence of crawl errors. These errors prevent your site from being recognised by the search engine as a result of which it will not be displayed in any of the search results pages. Google webmasters tools have solved a lot of hassles by specifying the areas where the sites need to be revamped in order to avoid crawl errors, in the Crawl errors section.

   The first being the presence of HTTP errors as a result of which certain pages were not found by the search engine. Now these errors could have been due to serious hitches in your site which could involve HTTP errors, or it could have simply been the case of your site being down when Google was searching for these pages. If it’s the latter, then there is no cause for concern as long as the URL can be accessed now otherwise Google specifies the cause of your errors which you can then rectify. Also the errors in sitemaps are restricted to the URL submitted in the XML site and once Google specifies them they can also be corrected.

   In some cases there are certain pages that Google could have crawled and displayed in search results but chose not to because Google thought the URL contained session IDs or URLs with multiple chain-style redirects. Otherwise it could have been because the page contained URLs that required cookies, or very long URLs, or finally pages that lead to other non existent pages. And in other cases Google webmasters has simplified resolving errors by specifying the URLS which contain the errors and also the URLs that lead to empty pages or pages with errors and once we get this data it becomes abundantly easy to add content to the pages and correct them. And finally there are some users who include robots.txt incorrectly in their files and webmasters specifies what exactly is wrong with the file. And once it is set right your pages are as good as new to be run by the search engines.

   All in all, these are not errors that are permanent or will cause damage to your site, but can be corrected once directed by Google webmasters and this enables your site to increase its visibility and page rankings.

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