Google can't access/crawl my site!
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Hi
I'm dealing with this problem for a few days. In fact i didn't realize it was this serious until today when i saw most of my site "de-indexed" and losing most of the rankings.
[URL Errors: 1st photo]
8/21/14 there were only 42 errors but in 8/22/14 this number went to 272 and it just keeps going up.
The site i'm talking about is gazetaexpress.com (media news, custom cms) with lot's of pages.
After i did some research i came to the conclusion that the problem is to the firewall, who might have blocked google bots from accessing the site. But the server administrator is saying that this isn't true and no google bots have been blocked.
Also when i go to WMT, and try to Fetch as Google the site, this is what i get:
[Fetch as Google: 2nd photo]
From more than 60 tries, 2-3 times it showed Complete (and this only to homepage, never to articles).
What can be the problem? Can i get Google to crawl properly my site and is there a chance that i will lose my previous rankings?
Thanks a lot
Granit -
What did you do specifically to mitigate the problem? You can PM me, if you would like.
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This applies to the guy from Albania.
Oh, this IS the guy from Albania. Never mind.
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Great, thanks for letting us know what happened with this!
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Hi all
Just wanted to let you know that we fixed the problem. We disabled CloudFlare which we found out was blocking Google bots. More about this issue can be found at: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169806-I-m-getting-Google-Crawler-Errors-What-should-I-do-
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Hi Travis, thank you for your time.
Great for your friend, I also suggest to visit Kosovo someday, you will have great time here, for sure
Back to the issue:
Here is an interesting issue that is happening with the crawler.
Our own cms uses htaccess for rewrite purposes. I created 2 new files that are independent from CMS and tried to fetch them with WMT, and it worked like a charm.
These 2 independent files are:
www.gazetaexpress.com/test_manaferra.php
www.gazetaexpress.com/xhezidja.php
Then, I created an ajax page with our CMS, which contains only plain text, tried to fetch it by WMT and strangely enough it didn't work. To make sure that the .htaccess file is not affecting this behavior, I deleted the htaccess and tried to fetch it, but it didn't worked.
The ajax page is: www.gazetaexpress.com/page/xhezidja/?pageSEO=false
The site works perfectly for humans which access it via the browser.
I'm more than confused now!
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A friend of mine just got back from Kosovo. It was the last stop on a tour of the Balkans. He had a pretty good time. Moving along...
I crawled about 12K URLs and hit almost 90 Internal Server Errors (500). It's probably not your core problem, but it's something to look at. Here are a few examples:
http://www.gazetaexpress.com/blihet/?search_category_id=1&searchFilter=1
http://www.gazetaexpress.com/shitet/?category_id=134&searchFilter=1
http://www.gazetaexpress.com/me-qera/?category_id=131&searchFilter=1
There was one actual page that threw a 500 at the time of crawl:
http://www.gazetaexpress.com/mistere/edhe-kesaj-i-thuhet-veze-22591/
The edhe kesaj page now resolves fine. (I'm not even going to pretend to understand or write Albanian.)
So there may be some issues with the server or hosting. If you haven't already, try this troubleshooter from Cloudflare.
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Ah OK - well keep us updated with what you find. Someone else will chip in with other info if they have some
-Andy
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We are suspecting that CloudFlare might be causing these troubles. We are trying everything, in the meantime i'm looking here to see if anyone has any similar experience or an idea for solution.
As for warnings, the only warning we had was the one last week (8/23/14) saying that Google bot can't acces our site:
Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 316 errors while attempting to connect to your site. Your site's overall connection failure rate is 7.5%.
-Granit
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It doesn't look like a firewall, as I can crawl it with Screaming Frog. However, the server logs will be able to answer that one for you.
Without looking in depth, I'm not seeing anything that stands out to me - do you think that there have been changes to the server that could cause issues? What firewall is the server running? Also, if there were errors in crawling the site, you would see a warning about this.
-Andy
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In mid-march website changed it's CMS but i don't think that could be the reason because until this week everything was working perfectly. I don't think it could have been compromised too. I'm still suspecting it could be the firewall blocking bots from crawling the site, but the server administrator couldn't find any evidence of this.
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Hi Granit,
Has any work been done to the site in the last 2-3 months? Have you had any warnings in webmaster tools at all? I did once see a strange problem where Google wasn't crawling a site correctly because it had been compromised, but after checking, there is nothing like this on yours.
-Andy
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No prb. Thanks a lot for your time. Let just hope that someone in the community will help with a solution
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Unfortunately, I don't have a quick answer for you. Looking forward to seeing what other community members have to say on this one!
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I'm looking at the http version in GWT
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If I do a site:gazetaexpress.com in Google, I get some results that are http, and some results that are https. The https ones say there is an SSL connection error.
Are you looking at the http or https version in GWT?
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