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Originally Posted by Mel
In this case (the error only being online for 12 seconds - though I wonder do you normally use a stopwatch when entering things in your site?)
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No need to wonder Mel, I had no idea how long the error was online until I looked at the error log images posted above and noticed the first error was at 14:17:37 and the last error was at 14:17:49 ;-)
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Originally Posted by Mel
If this is indeed the case we now have an answer for those people who are concerned about their pages not being indexed by Google. Could be an interesting test.
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I agree - I was intrigued by this idea when I first saw this. I called it "feeding a Googlebot" - results were inconclusive. 100% of the time if there was a Googlebot on my site, it would follow a manually entered URL that produced either a 404 or 500 error. I didn't check any others. But I could not reliably "feed" it manually entered URLs that didn't produce an error. I guess it might have something to do with the page not already being in the index as you suggested.
I found it interesting, thank you and flood6 for your help in understanding it :-)
TimS