500 internal server error stops googlebot crawling my site?

[internet-marketing-cr]

Hello webproworld members, thanks for any advice you can give me on this matter.

My website has a sitemap that was submitted to google, when I check google webmaster tools, it shows me a 500 internal error server for 45 ulr's including the home page.

My question is: Does a 500 internal server error stops googlebot from crawling my site?
How do I check it, and how do I fix it?

[Webnauts]

Do you get server error messages when you visit those pages with your browser? Are you on apache server? If yes, did you check your .htaccess file? Can you make and provide here a screenshot of that info? Can you provide us here with an URL?

All that can make things easier to find out.

[internet-marketing-cr]

Thanks for getting back to me.

I work doing some SEO for the site, specially link building.

Last December some changes where done by the IT Department to the site, I believe they change the back-end system of the site. When doing so they change the URL's, this was not having in account and it all generated broken links, we had top ten rankings on Google for our main keywords, and our site was last crawled on Dec 6 aprox. Since then I haven't seen any activity of the bots on the site, and we lost our rankings, google still displays some of the old pages of the site, we tried to fixed this redirecting the old pages to the new ones and some others where redirected to the home page. Also a sitemap was created for the site and submitted to Google last week, we get an OK on the sitemap but it shows a 500 internal server error for 45 URL's.

The url is [Edited by Mod Webnauts: URL deleted. See forums quidelines]

When I visit the home page with the browser I don't get the server error.

[Webnauts]

I tried to check for broken links, and I got a server error too. So that is sure a server side problem. You better check that with your server admin. The site does not seem to be crawlable.

[internet-marketing-cr]

Thanks webnauts, I appreciate it. Is there any way I can check if googlebot is crawling the site, or just by checking the cache of the page I know if it is crawling it or not? Last cache says Dec 6/2006. This is so I can go to the IT Department with some facts, they say that Googlebot and others are crawling the site.

Does the 500 internal server error given on the webmaster tools for the site stops Google from crawling the site? It says 45 unreachable URL's incluiding the home page.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by internet-marketing-cr

Does the 500 internal server error given on the webmaster tools for the site stops Google from crawling the site?

Yes!

[internet-marketing-cr]

Thanks webnauts, I really appreciate your help.

[DrTandem1]

Internal Server Errors will stop the 'bots from crawling that page and any links it may have had. I suppose, if it gets enough errors, then the 'bot will stop crawling the site for a period of time as it is a waste of its time.

[mediatitan]

The Patriots are a very low-classed team.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by mediatitan

The Patriots are a very low-classed team.

What does that suppose to mean?

[mediatitan]

Originally Posted by Webnauts

What does that suppose to mean?

Its just a rebutal to the first sentence of the most recent newsletter I received from you guys. Nothing to do with this thread - just had to say it somewhere. I expect it to be deleted. As far as what it means literally... that actually wasn't said by me originally - it came from the league's MVP.

-t