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Facebook doesn't "read" pages: 206 responsecode: Could not retrieve data from URL
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Hello,
Since shortly, every page of our website ecoheating.be doesn't get "read" by Google. So when you paste a page in Facebook, he doesn't get the title, description, image...
FB Debugger says there's a 206 Error code (check attachment).
A lot of changes are done the last weeks on this site so perhaps something is misconfigured. But what could this be? I've already check the htaccess and nothing there...
Thanks,
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Anybody another idea what could be the problem here please?
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Hello,
I tried that, but no errors or problems popped out. SEO-browser.com doesn't give any errors too.
On Webmaster Tools there's a warning regarding some soft 404 errors that appeared, but these are pages that are moved, this should have nothing to do with the Facebook problem.
Anybody else an idea? Because I don't think this can be good for my site's SEO..
Thanks
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206 means partial content, which is what your Website/Server is delivering to Facebook's request. Have you tested the "Fetch as Googlebot" under Webmaster tools to see if Google can get the files? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch
If you get an error there, then it must be something IP related with your server, as my test returned a 200 and a test using Googlebot as the user agent also returned 200, which means that the IP wasn't blocked (nor the user agent excluded), basically telling me that if Googlebot is unable to access your site (nor facebook) it must be something IP related.
Hope that helps!
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