Google Webmaster Tools error

[carlosleal]

Yes, all off them comes to my site, the problem is that they can't find the site... I think that is a configuration problem on iis, or some asp.net 2.0 bug, but i didn't find the solution yet... I have a lot of sites in that server and all are ok!

[incrediblehelp]

So they are spidering the website, but not seeing it? And how was that validated again?

[carlosleal]

The problem, is that the site isn't find by anyone, see in this link: Check webserver resultcodes and HTTP headers :: oyoy.eu search engine tools

The first page is redirect to the error page, and after that the error page is not find...

[wige]

Basically the spiders come to the site, but the server does not give the spider a valid page. The request is being misinterpreted because of a configuration or server issue. The spider requests differ enough from browser requests that the browsers do get the correct page. I verified the issue on my end by hacking my request headers to mimic Googlebot's request headers.

[incrediblehelp]

Yup, hopefully they can get their host to help.

[jrb@w3f.com]

Thanks for your help, by the way anyone knows how to fix this error?

I have a simple idea, but not very tasteful.

1. get rid of asp junk
2. get rid of flash junk
3. get rid of java junk.
4. get rid of javascript junk.
5. code home page in trditional html.
like index.html and not default.aspx
6. use stylesheets correctly, minimally.

(Never did like .net at all, nor IIS either, but then thats just me. Anything IE based is so full of security holes and non-complient to the standards, it becomes more troublle to deal with than warrents the "assumed" cuteness and top level programming ease(?).)

I know it isn't very nice to say this, but trying so hard to be cute and pretty makes your home page un-indexabe. There is no advantage except to show off skill in fancy coding languages, and really provides no advantage to your visitors. (tough truth)

If you want to impress your friends, then you may have accomplished that, but you have wasted a lot of time and talent on everyone else. (customers?) What is your site for? Never forget that question.

That is my opinion.

Aside from all that, there are a few people out there that can use some of these features to make a visitor and searchengine friendly site, but they are few and far between. Most get too hung up on some "easy" or "impressive" tool, and forget that the customer could care less, in fact too much of it will actually drive him away. Example, how many people have background music on an e-commerce web site that actually makes money? I have never seen one. That does not mean that background music does not have its place, or that it is not impressive to the proper audience, just that things like this do not help sell normal products.

Many of the other tips on language and format above are great ideas, but it may mean that you will have to abandon the "cute" stuff. Tough to re-write it all, but you may just have to.

craigmn3 and bj give great advice.
And as texxs says: "Google thinks it's a blank page. What do you think google will do w/ a blank page?"

Good luck,
-John