Somthing weird in my Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors...
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Hey,
I recently (this past may) redesigned my e-commerce site from .asp to .php.
I am trying to fix all the old pages with 301 redirects that didn't make it in the switch, but I keep getting weird pages coming up in GWT.
I have about 400 pages under crawl errors that look like this "emailus.php?id=MD908070"
I delete them and they come back.
my site is http://www.moondoggieinc.com
the id #'s are product #'s for products that are no longer on the site, but the site is .php now. They also do not show a sitemap they are linked in or any other page that they are linked from.
Are these hurting me? and how do I get rid of them?
Thanks! KristyO
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Ya, I know I'm not in good shape, you should have seen it before though.
I'm a designer turned web kid, cause my family wanted me to take Moondoggie over. I'm really enjoying figuring it out and learning , but it gets difficult flyin solo and this forum is the one place i've found to really ask questions.
I'm taking down the social media tracking which is the #.UBFKrzGXT_Q on the urls.
from now on I'll try using the minus, old habits with the underscore will die hard though, the e commerce template i have uses the underscore in it's static pages and won't recognize the minus. I'm not quite sure how to get around that?
On my index I have
I thought that helped this : _Eg: if you go with http://www.moondoggieinc.com/index.php that will return the home page but under a different url then http://www.moondoggieinc.com/ _ ??? But maybe i was wrong?
Are there any other ways to make the URL structure better? I am trying to change all of the cat's over to have static pages....
I also have my parameters set so that pg and cat sorts
Thanks so much! I really appreciate your help, and I'm so thankful for this forum.
KristyO
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Hi,
I won't bring any good news - sorry but hopefully it will help you
First of all I would't worry about the WMT errors until you fix your url structure. It's very bad (seo wise), very unfriendly.
With urls like: http://www.moondoggieinc.com/products.php?cat=114#.UBFJ_TGXT_Q you won't get very high SEO wise.
You have a lot of parameters in there and dynamic urls - it dosen't help you at all. You should fix that asap.
You do have some thousands pages in google's index - don't know the number of the product on the site - however I think you also have some duplicate content issues.
Eg: if you go with http://www.moondoggieinc.com/index.php that will return the home page but under a different url then http://www.moondoggieinc.com/
Another small point: Don't use underline as a separator in url. use minus.
eg: http://www.moondoggieinc.com/sailor_day_dog_dress.php#.UBFKrzGXT_Q
On a different note, not that important, you are using the old version of Google analytics - probably due to this you won't get very accurate data out of it.
As soon as the url structure is neat and clean then you can clean Google's index (sitempas and setting old indexed pages either with 301, 404 or 410 depending on the pages.).
This will for sure also solve the WMT errors.
You should look and assess the entire website in more detail - I am sure there are other factors that could hurt you.
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