Problems Getting Site Relaunched Crawled

[williamc]

In retrospect, I checked your site with lynx...

You are correct, it is NOT a hosting issue. Nor is it a Google issue. It is pure and simple PEBKAC.


[root@delta1 ~]# lynx -head 'http://www.savantcreativegroup.com/'
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:08:52 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://savantcreativegroup.com/406.shtml
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1



[root@delta1 ~]# lynx -head 'http://savantcreativegroup.com'
HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:11:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 877
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

You have some really messed up redirects going there mate.

[savantcreative]

Thanks for checking it out but I haven't written any redirects. There is just an htaccess file and when I switched hosting providers, I updated the nameservers on the domain. Any ideas?
Thanks a million

[savantcreative]

One more thing. What is PEBKAC?
Thanks

[williamc]

Thanks for checking it out but I haven't written any redirects. There is just an htaccess file

That is where the redirect(s) would be.....

One more thing. What is PEBKAC?

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

[savantcreative]

I spoke with my hosting company and they are saying that because the original site was Wordpress that things are wacked. Does that sound right?
Thanks

[williamc]

Only if they kept the original WP htaccess file and uploaded your new site, that could cause issues.

[savantcreative]

No. I wrote that file and have web using it for years without issue.

[deepsand]

Good question. I don't recall ever running into a 304 on a homepage, ...

That's because, if the 304 is correct, it means that the client should have a current copy of the resource in its cache.

. and am not sure how google handles that specific instance to be honest.

The 304 means that the resource has not changed since the date specified in the Googlebot's Request Header.

Odd thing is that Google fairly recently said that it no longer checks If_Modified_Since prior to downloading a resource.

[williamc]

Right, but if you read a couple posts further, I checked it from one of my servers and got some very different results than what Google told of.

[deepsand]

No. I wrote that file and have web using it for years without issue.

Do you mean that you created the htaccess? If so, why the re-direct to the server-side include file 406.shtml?