How can I fix this home page crawl error ?
-
My website shows this crawl error =>
612 : Home page banned by error response for robots.txt.
I also did not get any page data in my account for this website ...
I did get keyword rankings and traffic data, I am guessing from the analytics account.
url = www.mississaugakids.com
Not sure really what to do with this !
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-
Hi there,
Is this still happening, or does it seem to have been taken care of?
Cheers,
Jane
-
Or just noindex it for now? Seems worth a try unless someone more technical has a better suggestion.
Are you seeing the error only when Moz crawls the site? Google Webmaster Tools isn't signaling any problems?
D
-
Thank you Donna,
That's pretty much what I had found, but did not think that would cause the home page error I am seeing. I know that events calendar is a problem for speed. Maybe I will move the calendar off the domain and re scan. If the crawl is fine maybe I will move the calendar to a separate domain permanently.
-
Hi.
https://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/discover/v8r4/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.discovery.es.ad.doc/monitoring/iiysawhttp.htm says it's an error that occurred when the crawler attempted to connect to your Web server. It says a slow site or network might be the cause of the problem.
Your robots.txt is set correctly and your site is accessible (I just tried), perhaps your best bet is to wait and see if the problem recurs.
I also ran a scan of your site using screaming frog and got close to 2,000 internal server errors (response code 500) primarily from pages in this directory - http://mississaugakids.com/mississauga-events-calendar/. The pages are loading very slowly. That might be contributing to your problem.
Maybe start there and then circle back to see if the 612 error is recurring? I'm not very technical, but perhaps they're somehow related?
-
Yeah, your robot.txt seems fine, but the answer sounded like the error code could be misleading, so maybe you're looking in the wrong area for the root of the problem due to that reason. Wish I could be of more help.
-
Hello William, Thnaks for the heads up on that thread. I did see it, however my robot.txt file should be correct, so the answer in that thread did not help in my case. Looking for other options that could be the problem here. Cheers !
-
This was brought up a little while ago, hopefully Chiaryn's answer here can help: http://moz.com/community/q/without-robots-txt-no-crawling
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Customer Reviews on Product Page / Pagination / Crawl 3 review pages only
Hi experts, I present customer feedback, reviews basically, on my website for the products that are sold. And with this comes the ability to read reviews and obviously with pagination to display the available reviews. Now I want users to be able to flick through and read the reviews to help them satisfy whatever curiosity they have. My only thinking is that the page that contains the reviews, with each click of the pagination will present roughly the same content. The only thing that changes is the title tags which will contain the number in the H1 to display the page number. I'm thinking this could be duplication but i have yet to be notified by Google in my Search console... Should i block crawlers from crawling beyond page 3 of reviews? Thanks
Technical SEO | | Train4Academy.co.uk0 -
Can a page that's 301 redirected get indexed / show in search results?
Hey folks, have searched around and haven't been able to find an answer to this question. I've got a client who has very different search results when including his middle initial. His bio page on his company's website has the slug /people/john-smith; I'm wondering if we set up a duplicate bio page with his middle initial (e.g. /people/john-b-smith) and then 301 redirect it to the existent bio page, whether the latter page would get indexed by google and show in search results for queries that use the middle initial (e.g. "john b smith"). I've already got the metadata based on the middle initial version but I know the slug is a ranking signal and since it's a direct match to one of his higher volume branded queries I thought it might help to get his bio page ranking more highly. Would that work or does the 301'd page effectively cease to exist in Google's eyes?
Technical SEO | | Greentarget0 -
Can slow mobile page speed affect desktop search results?
I heard recently from an SEO friend that with Google's recent update, mobile page speed now affects desktop results. Our site is relatively slow on mobile, and I wanted to check! Thank you!
Technical SEO | | lauraballer1 -
I am trying to generate GEO meta tag for my website where on one page there are multiple locations My question is, Can I add GEO tagging for every address?
Am I restricted to 1 geo tag per page or can i add multiple geo tags ?
Technical SEO | | lina_digital0 -
Can Google Crawl This Page?
I'm going to have to post the page in question which i'd rather not do but I have permission from the client to do so. Question: A recruitment client of mine had their website build on a proprietary platform by a so-called recruitment specialist agency. Unfortunately the site is not performing well in the organic listings. I believe the culprit is this page and others like it: http://www.prospect-health.com/Jobs/?st=0&o3=973&s=1&o4=1215&sortdir=desc&displayinstance=Advanced Search_Site1&pagesize=50000&page=1&o1=255&sortby=CreationDate&o2=260&ij=0 Basically as soon as you deviate from the top level pages you land on pages that have database-query URLs like this one. My take on it is that Google cannot crawl these pages and is therefore having trouble picking up all of the job listings. I have taken some measures to combat this and obviously we have an xml sitemap in place but it seems the pages that Google finds via the XML feed are not performing because there is no obvious flow of 'link juice' to them. There are a number of latest jobs listed on top level pages like this one: http://www.prospect-health.com/optometry-jobs and when they are picked up they perform Ok in the SERPs, which is the biggest clue to the problem outlined above. The agency in question have an SEO department who dispute the problem and their proposed solution is to create more content and build more links (genius!). Just looking for some clarification from you guys if you don't mind?
Technical SEO | | shr1090 -
Blog Ranking NOT home page main website?!
Hi, Our Blog (http://blog.thailand-investigation.com) is ranking for some of our major keywords but not our home page (http://www.thailand-investigation.com)!? Our blog is WordPress and our main website is HTML. It seems like the search engines consider that they are 2 separate websites!? When I check the incoming links to our website, I get also the blog links!!!??? Is it normal? Do I have to build a relation of some kind or write some code saying that it is our Blog... I don't know! I'm not a SEO specialist or even a webmaster. I'm a small business owner and take care on my website. I created by myself but never learned! So, please help! Thanks
Technical SEO | | MichelMauquoi0 -
Can I format my H1 to be smaller than H2's and H3's on the same page?
I would like to create a web design with 12px H1 and for sub headings on the page to be more like 24px. Will search engines see this and dislike it? The reason for doing it is that I want to put a generic page title in the banner, and more poetic headings above the main body. Example: Small H1: Wholesale coffee, online coffee shop and London roastery Large h2: Respect the bean... Thanks
Technical SEO | | Crumpled_Dog
Scott0 -
Do we need to manually submit a sitemap every time, or can we host it on our site as /sitemap and Google will see & crawl it?
I realized we don't have a sitemap in place, so we're going to get one built. Once we do, I'll submit it manually to Google via Webmaster tools. However, we have a very dynamic site with content constantly being added. Will I need to keep manually re-submitting the sitemap to Google? Or could we have the continually updating sitemap live on our site at /sitemap and the crawlers will just pick it up from there? I noticed this is what SEOmoz does at http://www.seomoz.org/sitemap.
Technical SEO | | askotzko0