Can someone explain this to me in simple language? Basically what do I have to do?
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Accessible to Engines
Easy fix
<dl>
<dt>Crawl status</dt>
<dd>Status Code: 200
meta-robots: None
meta-refresh: 0;url=http://akaalpet.com/default.aspx
X-Robots: None</dd><dt>Explanation</dt>
<dd>Pages that can't be crawled or indexed have no opportunity to rank in the results. Before tweaking keyword targeting or leveraging other optimization techniques, it's essential to make sure this page is accessible.</dd>
<dt>Recommendation</dt>
<dd>Ensure the URL returns the HTTP code 200 and is not blocked with robots.txt, meta robots or x-robots protocol (and does not meta refresh to another URL)</dd>
</dl>
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I was certain that we addressed our redirect issue and I am very surprised to see it come up. Can someone perhaps shed light on why we are getting Accessible to Engines response?
This is the page I am crawling...
http://www.nutrivinevitamins.com/product/pure-encapsulations/
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Thank you so much for explaining it in detail. It totally makes sense now.
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Hi Devinder,
Definitely 100% get rid of that Meta refresh. I am just now dealing with this exact same problem on a large site for which I do in-house SEO. Try this, put the URL http://agaalpet.com into Open Site Exporer and compare it to http://akaalpet.com/default.aspx
Thanks very much to Jenn Lopes at SEOMoz I was able to articulate to management why this was bad and worth spending (in our case) $1,000 to have it fixed.
You are fragmenting the authority of what is probably your most authoritative page by having the meta refresh. It's definitely not OK in Google's eyes because people used to use it for nefarious purposes [SPAM]. Here's a screenshot. See how it's fragmenting your links? Oh heay, one other important thing is that your most authoritative page, http://www.akaalpet.com isn't passing any of it's link juice down to your other pages. The meta refresh is causing that too. Hope that helps!
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Thank you Phil. Yeah it does makes sense. So is it better to remove it or its ok in google's eye?
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The problem is with this line:
meta-refresh: 0;url=http://akaalpet.com/default.aspx
You're basically telling the search engines "I know you came here to check out www.akaalpet.com but I'd rather you head over to http://akaalpet.com/default.aspx"
Because of that, when someone visits www.akaalpet.com you're redirecting them to that other URL right away.
Make sense?
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You need to create a robot.txt file and upload it to your server.
www.akaalpet.com/robot.txt does not exist...
This should help you set it up: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt
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the URL is www.akaalpet.com that is giving this error but if I try http://akaalpet.com/default.aspx then it doesn't show the error. What you think I should do?
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Without a URL it's difficult to tell... I would check your robot.txt file for a disallow code or check in you Google Webmater tools to see if you are not indexing this page.
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